Lecture by Peter G. Klein given at the 2006 Mises Supporter’s Summit, hosted at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, 27-28 October 2006. http://mises.org
Peter G. Klein is an American Austrian economist who studies managerial and organizational issues. Klein is Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri and Associate Director of the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute (CORI). He is also an adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
Klein specializes in organizational economics, strategy, and entrepreneurship, with applications to corporate diversification, organizational design, and innovation. His books include Entrepreneurship and the Firm: Austrian Perspectives on Economic Organization (edited with Nicolai J. Foss, Edward Elgar, 2002), The Fortunes of Liberalism, volume 4 of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek (University of Chicago Press, 1992), and The Theory of the Firm: Emergence, Synthesis, Challenges, and New Directions (with Nicolai J. Foss, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
During the 2000-2001 academic year, Klein was a Senior Economist on the Council of Economic Advisers. Klein taught previously at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Georgia, the Copenhagen Business School, and the Olin Business School. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, studying under 2009 Nobel Laureate Oliver E. Williamson, and his B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He runs the Organizations and Markets blog with Nicolai J. Foss, professor at the Copenhagen Business School. (Source: Wikipedia)
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http://blog.mises.org/archives/author/peter_g_klein/
http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=1367
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February 19th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
It all comes down …
It all comes down to a partnership based on bribery and sharing the loot more effectively stolen as a bigger force.
February 19th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
I think it was …
I think it was because the western roman empire never really fell it just assimilated itself so far it became a few steps further then the Holy Roman. Just my crackpot theory, but the amount of roman imagery in western europe is staggering.
February 19th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
I just realized …
I just realized there is some clear evidence for your point, the extreme amount of capital needed to run an election campaign. The candidates either need money from the extremely rich or corporations.
February 19th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Does he completely …
Does he completely ignore the kind of fascist symbiosis between corporations and states, as a means to create barriers to entry and oligopolies??