Ronald Coase transformed our understanding of the role of transaction costs in the
economic and legal systems. In a way, it can be said that he invented the modern discipline …

This article argues that games were used as modeling technologies for the earliest symbolic
computational device, the Analytical Engine of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace …

This article offers a contextualization of strategy in the intellectual history of the early
twentieth century. In particular, the Marshall-inspired contributions of Austin Robinson and …

“Marshall's problem” consists in finding a way to integrate physics and biology into
economics in order to represent a complex economic world. It is widely believed that Alfred …

British mathematician C harles B abbage (1791–1871) spent immense energy to build
mechanical calculating engines. Hoping that it might help him in designing and building his …

The emergence of a common development platform (either in the form of open source
projects or proprietary products) and the corresponding economic communities that emerge …

The emergence and delayed influence of Coase's ideas demonstrate the role of
unpredictability and path dependence in the creation of knowledge and the recognition of its …

Marshall intensely wanted to believe that individuals are capable of achieving a moral sense
of chivalry and that social institutions were capable of changing in a manner that would bring …

This paper compares the notions of co-operation by economic thinkers of the 19th century in
the United Kingdom. It includes an analysis of the relationship between these notions of …

Abstract Jevons's Ideal Role for Labor Unions as a Form of Co-operation: This chapter
examines the ideas about labor unions in William Stanley Jevons's works. Even though …