Richard N. Langlois

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• University of Connecticut / Department of Economics
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• Capabilities and Governance the Rebirth of Production in the Theory of Economic Organization (repec:aal:abbswp:97-2)
  by Richard N. Langlois & Nicolai J. Foss
• Memes and Myths of Antitrust (repec:ajw:wpaper:12772)
  by Langlois, Richard
• Systems theory and the meaning of information (repec:bla:jamest:v:33:y:1982:i:6:p:395-399)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• The Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm and the Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm (repec:bla:jomstd:v:44:y:2007:i:7:p:1107-1124)
  by Richard N. Langlois
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• Capabilities and Governance: The Rebirth of Production in the Theory of Economic Organization (repec:bla:kyklos:v:52:y:1999:i:2:p:201-218)
  by Richard N. Langlois & Nicolai J. Foss
• Strategy and circumstance: the response of American firms to Japanese competition in semiconductors, 1980–1995 (repec:bla:stratm:v:21:y:2000:i:10-11:p:1163-1173)
  by Richard N. Langlois & W. Edward Steinmueller
• Comment on 'Technological Revolutions and the Evolution of Industrial Structures' (by Giovanni Dosi, Alfonso Gambardella, Marco Grazzi, and Luigi Orsenigo) (repec:bpj:capsoc:v:3:y:2008:i:2:n:7)
  by Langlois Richard N
• Kirznerian Entrepreneurship and The Nature of The Firm (repec:bpj:jeehcn:v:12:y:2002:i:1:n:8)
  by Langlois Richard N.
• Cost-Benefit Analysis, Environmentalism, and Rights (repec:cto:journl:v:2:y:1982:i:1:p:279-304)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems. ByEmerson W. Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson, and John H. Palmer. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991. xx + 810 pp. Charts, illustrations, appendixes, notes, references, and index. $37.50 (repec:cup:buhirw:v:65:y:1991:i:04:p:968-970_06)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• External Economies and Economic Progress: The Case of the Microcomputer Industry (repec:cup:buhirw:v:66:y:1992:i:01:p:1-50_06)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• Economics as a Process (repec:cup:cbooks:9780521378598)
  by Langlois,Richard
• La Sémantique économique en question, Christian Schmidt, Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1985, 231 pages (repec:cup:ecnphi:v:3:y:1987:i:01:p:168-171_00)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• Chandler in a Larger Frame: Markets, Transaction Costs, and Organizational Form in History (repec:cup:entsoc:v:5:y:2004:i:03:p:355-375_01)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• Explaining Vertical Integration: Lessons from the American Automobile Industry (repec:cup:jechis:v:49:y:1989:i:02:p:361-375_00)
  by Langlois, Richard N. & Robertson, Paul L.
• Evolutionary Theories of Economic and Technological Change. Edited by P. Paolo Saviotti and J. Stanley Metcalfe. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1991. Pp. ix, 277. $36.00 (repec:cup:jechis:v:53:y:1993:i:01:p:203-204_01)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• Institutions for getting out of the way (repec:cup:jinsec:v:12:y:2016:i:01:p:53-61_00)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• Fission, forking and fine tuning (repec:cup:jinsec:v:14:y:2018:i:06:p:1049-1070_00)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• Introduction to the Oliver E. Williamson memorial issue (repec:cup:jinsec:v:18:y:2022:i:2:p:175-180_1)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• Why Are There Firms (repec:cvs:starer:81-30)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• Subjective Probability and Subjective Economics (repec:cvs:starer:82-09)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• Entrepreneurship and Knowledge (repec:cvs:starer:82-13)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• Economics as a Process, Notes on the "New Institutional Economics" (repec:cvs:starer:82-21)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• Systems Theory, Knowledge and the Social Sciences and on the Reception of Noise: A Rejoiner (repec:cvs:starer:82-26)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• Internal Organization In a Dynamic Context: Some Theoretical Considerations (repec:cvs:starer:83-04)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• The Fatal Conceit: The errors of socialism : F.A. Hayek, volume one of the collected works of F.A. Hayek, W.W. Bartley, III, editor (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, and Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1989) pp. xii + 180, $24.95 (cloth) (repec:eee:jeborg:v:13:y:1990:i:2:p:259-262)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• Identity, religion, and the state: The origin of theocracy (repec:eee:jeborg:v:179:y:2020:i:c:p:608-622)
  by Coşgel, Metin M. & Langlois, Richard N. & Miceli, Thomas J.
• Business organization and the myth of the market economy: William Lazonick, (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1991) pp. xiv + 372, $39.95 (cloth), $15.95 (paper) (repec:eee:jeborg:v:23:y:1994:i:2:p:244-250)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• Modularity in technology and organization (repec:eee:jeborg:v:49:y:2002:i:1:p:19-37)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• Business groups and the natural state (repec:eee:jeborg:v:88:y:2013:i:c:p:14-26)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• The market as an economic process : Ludwig M. Lachmann, (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1986) pp. xii + 173, $29.95 (repec:eee:jeborg:v:9:y:1988:i:1:p:112-113)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• Cognitive comparative advantage and the organization of work: Lessons from Herbert Simon's vision of the future (repec:eee:joepsy:v:24:y:2003:i:2:p:167-187)
  by Langlois, Richard N.
• Networks and innovation in a modular system: Lessons from the microcomputer and stereo component industries (repec:eee:respol:v:21:y:1992:i:4:p:297-313)
  by Langlois, Richard N. & Robertson, Paul L.
• Innovation, networks, and vertical integration (repec:eee:respol:v:24:y:1995:i:4:p:543-562)
  by Robertson, Paul L. & Langlois, Richard N.
• Spinning off and spinning on(?): the federal government role in the development of the US computer software industry (repec:eee:respol:v:25:y:1996:i:6:p:947-966)
  by Mowery, David C. & Langlois, Richard N.
• Knowledge and Rationality in the Austrian School: An Analytical Survey (repec:eej:eeconj:v:11:y:1985:i:4:p:309-330)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Alternative Theories of the Firm (repec:elg:eebook:1443)
  by Richard N. Langlois & Fu-Lai T. Yu & Paul L. Robertson (ed.)
• Innovation Processes and Industrial Districts (repec:elg:eechap:12736_21)
  by Paul L. Robertson & David Jacobson & Richard N. Langlois
• Insights from Joseph Schumpeter (repec:elg:eechap:15339_6)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• The corporation is not a nexus of contracts: it’s an iPhone (repec:elg:eechap:16974_10)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Modularity in Technology and Organization (repec:elg:eechap:2377_2)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Industrial economics (repec:elg:eechap:2807_94)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Risk and uncertainty (repec:elg:eechap:53_17)
  by Richard Langlois
• The boundaries of the firm (repec:elg:eechap:53_26)
  by Richard Langlois
• The 'new' institutional economics (repec:elg:eechap:53_77)
  by Richard Langlois
• Schumpeter And The Obsolescence Of The Entrepreneur (repec:eme:aaeczz:s1529-2134(03)06018-6)
  by Richard N Langlois
• Comment On “Group Selection And Methodological Individualism: Compatible And Complementary” By Douglas Glen Whitman (repec:eme:aaeczz:s1529-2134(04)07012-7)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Journeying toward Institutionalism (repec:eme:rhetzz:s0743-41542023000041a014)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Journeying toward Institutionalism (repec:eme:rhetzz:s0743-415420240000041015)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Reviews (repec:kap:copoec:v:1:y:1990:i:2:p:83-109)
  by George Selgin & Frank Forman & Richard Langlois & James Buchanan & Hardy Bouillon & Jonathan Riley & Heinrich Ursprung & Alan Hamlin
• Do firms plan? (repec:kap:copoec:v:6:y:1995:i:3:p:247-261)
  by Richard Langlois
• Organizations and Language Games (repec:kap:jmgtgv:v:5:y:2001:i:3:p:287-305)
  by Roger Koppl & Richard Langlois
• The Austrian theory of the firm: Retrospect and prospect (repec:kap:revaec:v:26:y:2013:i:3:d:10.1007_s11138-012-0171-y)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• The Institutional Revolution: A review essay (repec:kap:revaec:v:26:y:2013:i:4:p:383-395)
  by Richard Langlois
• Frank Knight on Risk, Uncertainty, and the Firm: A New Interpretation (repec:oup:ecinqu:v:31:y:1993:i:3:p:456-65)
  by Langlois, Richard N & Cosgel, Metin M
• The vanishing hand: the changing dynamics of industrial capitalism (repec:oup:indcch:v:12:y:2003:i:2:p:351-385)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Modularity, identity, and the constitutional diagonal (repec:oup:indcch:v:32:y:2023:i:1:p:262-276.)
  by Richard N Langlois
• Withdrawn as duplicate: Modularity, identity, and the constitutional diagonal (repec:oup:indcch:v:34:y:2025:i:4:p:e1-e16.)
  by Richard N Langlois
• Personal Capitalism as Charismatic Authority: The Organizational Economics of a Weberian Concept (repec:oup:indcch:v:7:y:1998:i:1:p:195-213)
  by Langlois, Richard N
• John Kay: The corporation in the 21st century: why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong (repec:pal:buseco:v:61:y:2026:i:1:d:10.1057_s11369-025-00423-4)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• special issue: Knowledge, consumption, and endogenous growth (repec:spr:joevec:v:11:y:2001:i:1:p:77-93)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Cognition, Redundancy, And Learning In Organizations (repec:taf:ecinnt:v:4:y:1997:i:4:p:287-300)
  by Richard Langlois & Pierre Garrouste
• Of Hackers and Hairdressers: Modularity and the Organizational Economics of Open-source Collaboration (repec:taf:indinn:v:15:y:2008:i:2:p:125-143)
  by Richard Langlois & Giampaolo Garzarelli
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• Modularity in Technology, Organization, and Society (repec:uct:uconnp:1999-05)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Strategy and Circumstance: the Response of American Firms to Japanese Competition in Semiconductors, 1980-1995 (repec:uct:uconnp:1999-06)
  by Richard N. Langlois & W. Edward Steinmueller
• Technological Standards, Innovation, and Essential Facilities: Toward a Schumpeterian Post-Chicago Approach (repec:uct:uconnp:1999-07)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Knowledge, Consumption, and Endogenous Growth (repec:uct:uconnp:2000-02)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Schumpeter and the Obsolescence of the Entrepreneur (repec:uct:uconnp:2002-19)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Cognitive Comparative Advantage and the Organization of Work: Lessons from Herbert Simon's Vision of the Future (repec:uct:uconnp:2002-20)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• The Vanishing Hand: the Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (repec:uct:uconnp:2002-21)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Chandler in a Larger Frame: Markets, Transaction Costs, and Organizational Form in History (repec:uct:uconnp:2003-16)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Competition through Institutional Form: the Case of Cluster Tool Standards (repec:uct:uconnp:2004-10)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• The Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm and the Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm (repec:uct:uconnp:2005-27)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• The Secret Life of Mundane Transaction Costs (repec:uct:uconnp:2005-49)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Organizing the Electronic Century (repec:uct:uconnp:2007-07)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Innovation Processes and Industrial Districts (repec:uct:uconnp:2008-03)
  by Paul L. Robertson & David Jacobson & Richard N. Langlois
• Of Hackers and Hairdressers: Modularity and the Organizational Economics of Open-source Collaboration (repec:uct:uconnp:2008-53)
  by Richard N. Langlois & Giampaolo Garzarelli
• Economic Institutions and the Boundaries of the Firm: The Case of Business Groups (repec:uct:uconnp:2009-23)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Business Groups and the Natural State (repec:uct:uconnp:2010-29)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Class Attendance, PowerPoint Slides and Learning Outcomes (repec:uct:uconnp:2012-42)
  by William T. Alpert & Archita Banik & Oskar R. Harmon & James Lambrinos & Richard N. Langlois
• The Institutional Revolution: A Review Essay (repec:uct:uconnp:2013-11)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• The Institutional Approach to Economic History: Connecting the Two Strands (repec:uct:uconnp:2013-33)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Institutions for Getting Out of the Way: A Comment on McCloskey (repec:uct:uconnp:2015-12)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• The Corporation Is Not a Nexus of Contracts. It’s an iPhone (repec:uct:uconnp:2016-06)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Antitrust: Where Did It Come from and What Did It Mean? (repec:uct:uconnp:2016-07)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Fission, Forking, and Fine Tuning (repec:uct:uconnp:2017-15)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Hunting the Big Five: Twenty-first Century Antitrust in Historical Perspective (repec:uct:uconnp:2018-01)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• The Fisher Body Case and Organizational Economics (repec:uct:uconnp:2018-13)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• R&D and the American Corporation before World War II (repec:uct:uconnp:2019-19)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Identity, Religion, and the State: the Origin of Theocracy (repec:uct:uconnp:2020-04)
  by Metin M. Cosgel & Richard N. Langlois & Thomas J. Miceli
• “An Elephants’ Graveyard”: the Deregulation of American Industry in the Late Twentieth Century (repec:uct:uconnp:2021-11)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Disintermediation: the Rise of the Personal Computer and the Internet in the Late Twentieth Century (repec:uct:uconnp:2021-12)
  by Richard N. Langlois
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• Modularity, Identity, and the Constitutional Diagonal (repec:uct:uconnp:2022-12r)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Imprisoning Complexity in Modules (repec:uct:uconnp:2023-05)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Frank Knight and the Problem of the Twentieth Century (repec:uct:uconnp:2023-06)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Edith Penrose: Seeing into the “Insides” of the Firm (RePEc:uct:uconnp:2024-05)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Teaching Economical Writing in the Age of AI: A Process-Based Framework (RePEc:uct:uconnp:2025-06)
  by Metin M. Cosgel & Richard N. Langlois & Thomas J. Miceli
• Business History as Institutional History (RePEc:uct:uconnp:2025-07)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Schumpeter’s knowledge problem – in the economy and in the voting booth (RePEc:uct:uconnp:2026-01)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Book Review: THE SOURCES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH, by Nelson, R.R., Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996 (repec:wly:mgtdec:v:19:y:1998:i:3:p:199-200)
  by R.N. Langlois
• Strategy and the market process: introduction to the Special Issue (repec:wly:mgtdec:v:22:y:2001:i:4-5:p:163-168)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Strategy as economics versus economics as strategy (repec:wly:mgtdec:v:24:y:2003:i:4:p:283-290)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• The Vanishing Hand: the Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (repec:wpa:wuwpeh:0110001)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• The Coevolution of Technology and Organization in the Transition to the Factory System (repec:wpa:wuwpeh:9503001)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Bursting Boilers and the Federal Power Redux: The Evolution of Safety on the Western Rivers (repec:wpa:wuwpeh:9503002)
  by Richard N. Langlois & amd David J. Denault & Samson M. Kimenyi
• Capabilities and Coherence in Firms and Markets (repec:wpa:wuwpio:9309003)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Do Firms Plan? (repec:wpa:wuwpio:9406002)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Cognition and Capabilities: Opportunities Seized and Missed in the History of the Computer Industry (repec:wpa:wuwpio:9406003)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Capabilities and Vertical Disintegration in Process Technology: The Case of Semiconductor Fabrication Equipment (repec:wpa:wuwpio:9406004)
  by Richard N. Langlois
• Institutions, Inertia, and Changing Industrial Leadership (repec:wpa:wuwpio:9406005)
  by Paul L. Robertson & Richard N. Langlois
• Innovation, Networks, and Vertical Integration (repec:wpa:wuwpio:9406006)
  by Paul L. Robertson & Richard N. Langlois
• The Federal Government Role in the Development of the American Software Industry: An Assessment (repec:wpa:wuwpio:9503001)
  by Richard N. Langlois & David C. Mowery
• Capabilities and the Theory of the Firm (repec:wpa:wuwpio:9503002)
  by Richard N. Langlois