Oliver E. Williamson Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Business Administration Professor of Law × Professor of Economics Ph.D. 1963 Carnegie Tech (economics) × MBA 1960 Stanford × SB 1955 MIT (510) 642-8697 × owilliam@haas homepage × cv (pdf)

At Haas since 1988 × Previously at Berkeley, U Pennsylvania and Yale.

Research Interests

New science of organization. Institutional Economics. Transaction Cost Economics, with applications to Public Policy (Antitrust and Regulation) and to the modern corporation. Corporate strategy.

Recent Books

The Mechanisms of Governance
Oxford University Press, New York (1996)

Transaction Cost Economics × with Scott Masten [eds.]
Edward Elgar, London (1995)

Organization Theory: From Chester Barnard to the Present and Beyond [ed.]
Oxford University Press, New York (1995)

The Nature of the Firm: Origins, Evolution, and Development × with Sidney Winter [eds.]
Oxford University Press, New York (1993)

The Economic Institutions of Capitalism
Free Press, New York (1985)

Markets and Hierarchies
Free Press, New York (1975)

Selected Articles

"Public and Private Bureaucracies" × Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 15 (1999).

"Transaction Cost Economics: How It Works; Where It Is Headed" × De Economist 146, pp. 23-58 (1998).

"The Institutions of Governance" × American Economic Review 88, pp. 75-79 (1998).

"Transaction Cost Economics and the Evolving Science of Organization" × in: A. Heertje [ed.]: The Makers of Modern Economics vol. II. Edward Elgar, Brookfield, Vt. (1995).

"Hierarchies, Markets, and Power in the Economy: An Economic Perspective" × Industrial and Corporate Change 4, pp. 21-49 (1995).

"Calculativeness, Trust, and Economic Organization" × Journal of Law and Economics 36, pp. 453-486 (1993).

"Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Structural Alternatives" × Administrative Science Quarterly 36, pp. 269-296 (1991).