Richard Normand Langlois
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Richard Normand Langlois (born January 20, 1952 in Putnam, Connecticut
) is an American
economist
and currently professor at the University of Connecticut
. Having studied physics
he received his PhD
in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford.
Since May 2008, Langlois is also a contributor to the blog Organizations and Markets.
Putnam, Connecticut
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) is an American
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economist
Economist
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and currently professor at the University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut
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. Having studied physics
Physics
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he received his PhD
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in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford.
Since May 2008, Langlois is also a contributor to the blog Organizations and Markets.
Literature
- 1982, Subjective Probability and Subjective Economics. New York : NY, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, NYU, FAS, Department of Economics, Working Paper
- 1984, Kaleidic and Structural Interpretations of Genuine Uncertainty. New York : NY, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, NYU, FAS, Department of Economics, Working Paper
- 1986, Economics as a Process: Essays in the New Institutional Economics. New York: Cambridge University PressCambridge University PressCambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
, 1986. xi, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN 0521301742 - 1988, “Economic change and the boundaries of the firm,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 144, pp. 635–57
- 1994, “Risk and Uncertainty” in Peter BoettkePeter BoettkePeter J. Boettke is an American economist of the Austrian School.-Early life and education:Boettke was born in Rahway, New Jersey to Fred and Elinor Boettke and remained there until he moved to Pennsylvania to attend Thiel College in Greenville and later Grove City College. He became interested in...
(ed.), The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics. Brookfield, Vermont : Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 118–22. - 1995, Firms, markets, and economic change : a dynamic theory of business institutions / Richard N. Langlois and Paul L. Robertson. London ; New York : Routledge, 1995. xii, 185 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN 0415121191 (hbk.), ISBN 0415123852 (pbk.)
- 1998, “Capabilities and the theory of the firm,” in N. J. Foss and B. J. Loasby (eds.), Economic Organisation, Capabilities and Co-ordination. London: Routledge.
- 2007, The dynamics of industrial capitalism : Schumpeter, Chandler, and the new economy / Richard N. Langlois. Abingdon [England] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2007. ISBN 9780415771672