Liability, control and the organization of economic activity

Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

1976 • 62,465 citations

The Nature of the Firm

1937 • 23,029 citations

Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications.

1976 • 13,953 citations

The Problem of Social Cost

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Agency Problems and the Theory of the Firm

1980 • 10,487 citations

The Problem of Social Cost

1960 • 10,187 citations

Production, Information Costs and Economic Organization

1996 • 9,220 citations

Vertical Integration, Appropriable Rents, and the Competitive Contracting Process

1978 • 5,975 citations

Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral

1972 • 1,905 citations

Strict Liability versus Negligence

1980 • 769 citations

Toward an Economic Theory of Liability

1973 • 593 citations

Property Rights, Transaction Costs, and X-Efficiency: An Essay in Economic Theory

1983 • 252 citations

Economic Analysis of Law. By Richard A. Posner. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1973. Pp. 415. $16.00.)

1977 • 223 citations

The Invention of Enterprise Liability: A Critical History of the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Tort Law

1985 • 180 citations

A Theory of the Consumer Product Warranty

1981 • 177 citations

The Economics of Product Safety

1973 • 175 citations

Handbook of the Law of Torts

1941 • 171 citations

Transaction Cost Determinants of "Unfair" Contractual Arrangements

1997 • 137 citations

Joint and Multiple Tortfeasors: An Economic Analysis

1980 • 121 citations

Opportunistic Behavior and the Law of Contracts

1981 • 106 citations

A Positive Economic Analysis of Products Liability

1985 • 78 citations

The Assault upon the Citadel (Strict Liability to the Consumer)

1960 • 47 citations

Agency

1891 • 28 citations

The Fall of the Citadel (Strict Liability to the Consumer)

1966 • 26 citations

Agency. II

1891 • 25 citations

The Basis of Vicarious Liability

1916 • 21 citations

Substitution laws and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry.

1979 • 19 citations

In Defense of Caveat Emptor

1970 • 18 citations

Vicarious Liability and Administration of Risk I

1929 • 8 citations

The Ways and Meanings of Defective Products and Strict Liabilty

1965 • 7 citations

The Basis of Affirmative Obligations in the Law of Tort

1905 • 6 citations

The Basis of the Immunity of an Employer of an Independent Contractor

1935 • 5 citations

Products liability and the unreasonably dangerous requirement

1981 • 3 citations

The Basis of Affirmative Obligations in the Law of Tort. (Continued from Page 239)

1905 • 3 citations

Vicarious Liability and Administration of Risk II

1929 • 2 citations

The Basis of Affirmative Obligations in the Law of Tort. (Continued from Page 310)

1905 • 1 citations

Bases for Master's Liability and for Principal's Liability to Third Persons

1951 • 1 citations