Reintroducing The economic nature of the firm /; Randall S. Kroszner and Louis Putterman --; Within and among firms : the division of labor.; From The wealth of nations /; Adam Smith ;; From Capital /; Karl Marx ;; From Risk, uncertainty, and profit /; Frank Knight ;; From The modern corporation and private property /; Adolf A. Berle, Jr., and Gardiner C. Means ;; The use of knowledge in society /; Friedrich Hayek ;; Corporate governance /; Luigi Zingales --; The scope of the firm.; The nature of the firm /; Ronald Coase ;; Vertical integration, appropriable rents, and the competitive contracting process /; Benjamin Klein, Robert Crawford, and Armen Alchian ;; The governance of contractual relations /; Oliver Williamson ;; The limits of firms : incentive and bureaucratic features /; Oliver Williamson ;; Bargaining costs, influence costs, and the organization of economic activity /; Paul Milgrom and John Roberts ;; The boundaries of the firm revisited /; Bengt Holmstrom and John Roberts --; The employment relation, the human factor, and internal organization.; Production, information costs, and economic organization /; Armen Alchian and Harold Demsetz ;; Contested exchange : new microfoundations for the political economy of capitalism /; Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis ;; Understanding the employment relation : the analysis of idiosyncratic exchange /; Oliver Williamson, Michael Wachter, and Jeffrey Harris ;; Multitask principal-agent analyses : incentive contracts, asset ownership, and job design /; Bengt Holmstrom and Paul Milgrom ;; Work motivation /; Truman Bewley ;; Worker participation /; John Pencavel --; Finance and the control of the firm.; Mergers and the market for corporate control /; Henry Manne ;; Agency problems and the theory of the firm /; Eugene Fama ;; Theory of the firm : managerial behavior, agency costs, and ownership structure /; Michael Jensen and William Meckling ;; Organizational forms and investment decisions /; Eugene Fama and Michael Jensen ;; The rise in managerial stock ownership /; Clifford G. Holderness, Randall S. Kroszner, and Dennis P. Sheehan ;; Executive compensation as an agency problem /; Lucian Arye Bebchuck and Jesse M. Fried ;; An economist's perspective on the theory of the firm /; Oliver Hart ;; Ownership and the nature of the firm /; Louis Putterman.