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The nature of the firm.
wBut is a firm something
different from a market?
w“Telling an employee to type this letter rather than to file that document is like my telling a grocer to sell me this brand of tuna rather than that brand of bread.” (Alchian and Demsetz 1972, p. 777.)
wThe firm as a nexus of contracts.
Harold Demsetz (1930-)
Armen Alchian (1919-)