Technology and transaction cost economics: A reply

Abstract I argue here, as I have previously, that technology is neither fully determinative of nor irrelevant to economic organization. Transaction cost economizing occupies a prominent position in any effort to assess the efficacy of alternative forms of economic organization.

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