The Politics and Economics of Power

These papers examine power relations in the firm and the market place and offer an economic perspective of political relations. The analysis of power relations is becoming increasingly important to economists in order to understand concepts such as the "contested nature" of market exchanges.

Samuel Bowles, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Albert Breton, Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Canada John Dunn, King's College, Cambridge, UK Maurizio Franzini, Department of Political Economy, University of Siena, Italy Gianluigi Galeotti, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy Ernest Gellner (deceased), formerly of Cambridge University, UK Herbert Gintis, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Russell Hardin, Department of Politics, New York University, USA Paul Milgrom, Department of Economics, Stanford University, USA Ugo Pagano, Department of Political Economy, University of Siena, Italy John Roberts, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, USA Viktor Vanberg, University of Freiburg, Germany Ronald Wintrobe, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario, Canada Ulrich Witt, Max-Planck-Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Evolutionary Economics Unit, Jena, Gemany Donald Wittman, Economics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA