Reading in economics and public policy

• Understanding Institutional Diversity Ostrom 2005
• Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life Bowles Gintis 2005
• Managing the Commons Baden and Noonan 1998

reearch on the theory of the firm

• Ronald Coase
• Herbert Simon
• Oliver Williamson
  • Markets and hierarchies : analysis and antitrust implications, 1975
  • The Economic Institutions of Capitalism, 1985
  • The Nature of the Firm: Origins, Evolution, and Development (co-edited with Sidney Winter), 1991
  • The Mechanisms of Governance, 1996

• maybe some George Stigler
• Eric Rasmusse's critique of Coasean Economics 1998 []
  • http://rasmusen.org/papers/08-googlescholar.htm
  • Games and Information