This paper provides a comprehensive review of the empirical literature in transaction cost
economics (TCE) across multiple social science disciplines and business fields. We show …

The theory and methods used to analyze the market, management, and policy elements of
agricultural finance draw substantially on modern finance concepts, but with significant …

Because human beings are fated to live mostly on the surface of the earth, the pattern of
entitlements to use land is a central issue in social organization. As the epigraphs suggest …

Who benefits from agricultural subsidies is an open question. Economic theory predicts that
the entire subsidy incidence should be on the farmland owners. Using a complementary set …

Economists have expended enormous effort examining the rationale for various contractual
arrangements in agriculture, particularly sharecropping. While economists have made …

A considerable literature in marketing, economics, and law has emphasized the
organizational structures and governance approaches employed by participants to enhance …

Parce qu'elles sont susceptibles d'influer sur les législations contractuelles, les politiques et
les pratiques industrielles, il est important que les théories des contrats se basent, autant …

A contract is an agreement under which two parties make reciprocal commitments in terms
of their behavior to coordinate. As this concept has become essential to economics in the …

In a pathbreaking analysis, Sara Singleton explores the development of schemes for the
management of fisheries in the northwestern United States in which native American tribes …

More than 150 years into development of the doctrine of" fair use" in American copyright law,
there is no end to legislative, judicial, and academic efforts to rationalize the doctrine. Its …