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Transaction Cost Economics and Organized Labor


Cooperation and exchange among individuals often organize in firms rather than adhering to market institutions. This anomaly of market systems can be explained through what Oliver Williamson calls ?Transaction Cost Economics.? Transaction costs are defined as the ?costs of running the economic system? (Williamson 18). Similar to friction in a physical system, transaction costs may be small compared to other costs such encountered by market players, but basing entire models on a ?frictionless? system is unrealistic. It is these transaction costs explain the development of firms and hierarchies rather than contracting by market forces.

There are three limitations to a market system: bounded rationality, opportunism and asset specificity. Bounded rationality describes the limitations of knowledge by market players. Whereas they will act rationally in a market situation, they are not always presented with all the information required to make a rational decision. Opportunism arises when certain market players are unwilling to acc... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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