Brian J. Loasby’s Publication List
(E-mail: b.j.loasby@stir.ac.uk)
The Swindon Project (London: Pitman, 1973), 76pp.
Choice, Complexity and Ignorance(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976), 242pp.
The Mind and Method of theEconomist (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1989), 227pp.
Equilibrium and Evolution (Manchester:University of Manchester Press, 1991), 118pp.
Knowledge,Institutions and Evolution in Economics (London:Routledge, 1999), 168pp.
Economic Organization,Capabilities and Co-ordination: Essays in Honour of G B Richardson
(withNicolai J Foss) (London: Routledge, 199
Location of Industry: "Thirty Years of Planning". DistrictBank Review,
156, pp. 28-52, December 1965.
The Substance of Management Education. DistrictBank Review,
160, pp. 41-56, December 1966.
Making Location Policy Work. LloydsBank Review,
83, pp. 34-47, January 1967; reprinted in P E Earl (ed.)
Behavioural Economics, Volume II, pp. 264-77 (Aldershot: EdwardElgar, 1988).
Management Economics and the Theory of the Firm. Journalof Industrial Economics,
XV, 3, 165-76, July 1967; reprinted in P E Earl(ed.)
Behavioural Economics, Volume I,pp. 461-72 (Aldershot: Edward Elgar,1988).
The Organic Life of Little. ManagementToday,
September 1967, pp. 84-7, 158, 162, 164.
Long Range Formal Planning in Perspective. Journalof Management Studies,
4, 3, pp. 300-08, October 1967; reprinted in D MLamberton (ed.),
Economics of Informationand Knowledge
(Harmondworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1971), pp. 303-14;reprinted in J B Quinn,
H Mintzberg & R M James, TheStrategy Process
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1988), 1st edn. pp.89-94, 2nd edn. pp. 646-52.
Managerial Decision Processes. ScottishJournal of Political Economy,
XIV, 3, pp. 243-55, November 1967; reprintedin P E Earl (ed.)
Behavioural Economics,Volume I, pp. 353-65, (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1988.
The Decision Maker in the Organisation. Journalof Management Studies,
5,3, pp. 352-64, October 1968.
Hypothesis and Paradigm in the Theory of the Firm. EconomicJournal,
81, 332, pp. 863-85, December 1971;
translated and republished in Claude Geffroy and B J Loasby,
ConcurrenceMonopolistique, Concurrence Imparfaite,
pp. 83-124 (Repères Mame, 1972);reprinted in Bruce Caldwell (ed.),
Appraisaland Criticism in Economics: A Book of Readings
(Boston: Allen & Unwin,1984), pp. 261-83.
An Analysis of Decision Processes. R& D Management, 4, 3, pp. 149-55, June 1974.
Whatever Happened to Marshall's Theory of Value? ScottishJournal of Political Economy,
25, 1, pp. 1-12, February 1978.
The Entrepreneur in Economic Theory. ScottishJournal of Political Economy,
29, 3, pp. 235-45, November 1982.
* G L S Shackle as Historian of Economic Thought. In W J Samuels (ed.)
Researchin the History of Economic Thought and Methodology,
Vol. 1, pp. 209-21,(Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1983).
* On Scientific Method. Journal ofPost Keynesian Economics,
VI, 3, pp. 394-410, Spring, 1984.
Journalof Economic Studies, 11, 2, pp. 75-88, 1984; reprinted in H Hanusch(ed.)
TheLegacy of Joseph A Schumpeter,
Vol. 2 (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 1999), pp.168-81.
Profit, Expectations and Coherence in Economics Systems.
Journalof Economic Studies, 12, 1/2, pp. 21-33, 1985.
* Competition and Imperfect Knowledge: The Contribution of G B Richardson.
ScottishJournal of PoliticalEconomy, 33, 2, 145-58, May 1986.
* Marshall's Economics of Progress Journal of Economic Studies, 13, 5, pp. 16-26, 1986.
* Public Science and Public Knowledge. In W J Samuels (ed.),
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology,
Volume 4, pp.211-28. (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1986).
* Herbert Simon's Human Rationality. In W J Samuels (ed.),
Researchin the History of Economic Thought and Methodology,
Volume 6, pp. 1-17(Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1989).
Problem-Solving Institutions. ScottishJournal of Political Economy,
37, 2, pp. 197-201, May 1990.
Efficient Institutions. Quadernidi storia dell'economia politica,
IX, 2-3, pp.115-31, 199 (Special issue: M Dardi, M Gallegati and E Pesciarelli(eds),
Alfred Marshall'sPrinciples of Economics 1890-1990).
Evolution within Equilibrium. In Peter J Boettke, Israel M Kirzner, andMario J. Rizzo (eds)
Advances in AustrianEconomics,
Vol I, pp. 31-47 (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1994).
Organisational Capabilities and Interfirm Relations. Metroeconomica,45, 3, pp. 248-65, 1994.
George Lennox Sharman Shackle. Proceedingsof the British Academy, 84, 1993
Lecturesand Memoirs, pp. 505-27, December 1994.
Running A Business: An Appraisal of Economics, Organisation andManagement
by Paul Milgrom and John Roberts.
Industrialand Corporate Change, 4, 2, pp. 471-90, 1995.
The Organisation of Industry and the Growth of Knowledge.
LectionesJenenses, Heft 7, 1996, pp. 23.
Jena: Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschungvon Wirtschaftssystemen.
The Division of Labour. History ofEconomic Ideas, IV, 1-2, pp. 299-323, 1996.
On the Definition and Organisation of Capabilities. RevueInternationale de Systemique,
12, 1, pp. 13-26, 1998.
The Organization of Capabilities. Journalof Economic Behaviour and Organization,
35, pp. 139-60, 1998.
Making Connections: a Review of Neil M. Kay, Patternin Corporate Evolution.
InternationalJournal of the Economics of Business, 6, 3, pp. 439-52, 1999.
Edith Penrose’s Place in the Filiation of Economic Ideas.
Économieset Sociétés – Cahiers de l’ISMÉA, XXXIII, 8 Série Oeconomica,
pp. 103-21, 1999.
The Significance of Penrose’s Theory for the Development of Economics.
Contributionsto Political Economy, 18, pp. 31-45, 1999.
MarketInstitutions and Economic Evolution.Journal of Evolutionary Economics,
10, 3, pp. 297-309, 2000. Reprintedin Dennis Mueller and Uwe Kantner (eds)
Capitalismand Democracy in the 21st Century
(Heidelberg and New York:Physica Verlag, 2001, pp. 303-15.
In the Spirit of Shackle: a Review of Donald W. Katzner,
Time,Ignorance and Uncertainty in Economic Models,
Ann Arbor: University ofMichigan Press, 1998.
Journal of PostKeynesian Economics, 22, 3, pp. 497-506, 2000.
The Heart of Economics: a Review of Christian Schmidt (ed.),
Uncertaintyin Economic Thought, Cheltenham and Brookfield,VT: EdwardElgar,1996
Journalof Economic Methodology, 7, 2, pp. 279-85, 2000.
The Division and Organisation of Knowledge. EuropeanJournal of Economic and Social Systems,
14, 2, pp. 143-55, 2000.
Decision Premises, Decision Cycles and Decomposition.Industrial and Corporate Change, 9, pp. 709-31.
Cognition, Imagination and Institutions in Demand Creation. Journalof Evolutionary Economics, 11, 1, pp. 7-21, 2001.
* Revised version published in TheMind and Method of the Economist.
Economics of Dispersed and Incomplete Knowledge. In I M Kirzner (ed.)
Method,Process and Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises
(Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books,D C Heath, 1982), pp. 111-130.
Knowledge, Learning and Enterprise. In J Wiseman (ed.) BeyondPositive Economics?
(London: Macmillan 1983), pp. 104-21; reprinted in MCasson (ed.)
Entrepreneurship (Aldershot:Edward Elgar, 1990), and in U. Witt (ed.)
EvolutionaryEconomics (Aldershot: EdwardElgar, 1993), pp. 349-66.
Organisational Control and Performance. In T A J Cockerill & JPickering (eds)
The Economic Management of the Firm (Deddington, Oxford: PhilipAllan, 1984), pp. 72-100.
Professor Shackle's 'To Cope with Time': a discussion. In F H Stephen(ed.)
Firms, Organization and Labour (London: Macmillan, 1984), pp. 80-83.
Theory of the Firm. In A & J Kuper (eds) TheSocial Science Encyclopaedia
(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985), pp.305-7; revised for 2nd edn., 1996, pp. 305-7.
Organization, Competition and the Growth of Knowledge. In R Langlois(ed.) Economics as a Process
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 41-57.
The Firm. In John Creedy (ed.) Foundationsof Economic Thought
(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990), 212-23.
The Use of Scenarios in Business Planning. In Stephen F Frowen (ed.) Unknowledgeand Choice in Economics
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990), pp. 48-63.
Firms, Markets and the Principle of Continuity. In J Whitaker (ed.) CentenaryEssays on Alfred Marshall
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp.108-26.
Joan Robinson's 'Wrong Turning'. In Ingrid Rima (ed.) TheJoan Robinson Legacy
(Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 1991), pp. 34-48.
Alsopublished in The Mind and Method of theEconomist.
The Austrian School. In Douglas Mair and Anne Miller (eds), AModern Guide to Economic Thought
(Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1991), pp. 40-70.
Market Coordination. In Bruce Caldwell and Stephan Boehm(eds), Austrian Economics: Tensions and New Directions
(Dordrecht: Kluwer AcademicPublishers, 1992), pp. 137-56.
Assessing the Recent Changes in the Role of Government in the Economy: Commentary.
In Luca Zan, Stefano Zambon and Andrew M Pettigrew (eds)
Perspectiveson Strategic Change (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993), pp.271-6.
Institutional Stability and Change in Science and the Economy. In UskaliMaki, Bo Gustafsson, and Christian Knudsen (eds)
Rationality,Institutions and Economic Methodology (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 203-21.
Acceptable Explanations. In Sheila C Dow and John Hillard (eds)
Keynes,Knowledge and Uncertainty
(Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1995), pp. 6-24.
The Imagined, Deemed Possible. In Ernst Helmstädter and Mark Perlman (eds)
Behavioral Norms, Technological Progress,and Economic Dynamics:
Studies in Schumpeterian Economics (Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press, 1996), pp. 17-31.
The Organisation of Industry. In Nicolai J Foss and Christian Knudsen (eds)Towards a Competence Theory of the Firm
(London: Routledge, 1996), pp. 38-53.
Organisation and Innovation at Du Pont, 1902-80. In Peter E Earl (ed.)
Management,Marketing and the Competitive Process
(Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1996), pp.112-29.
The Concept of Capabilities. In Nicolai J Foss and Brian J Loasby (eds)
EconomicOrganization, Capabilities and Co-ordination
(London: Routledge, 1998), pp.163-82.
Co-ordination Failure in Economic Theory: Economists in the 1930s. InAlbert Jolink and Philippe Fontaine (eds)
HistoricalPerspectives on Macroeconomics: 60 Years After the General Theory
(London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 72-87.
Cognition and Innovation. In Marina Bianchi (ed.) TheInnovative Consumer
(London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 89-106.
LudwigM Lachmann: Subjectivism in Economics and the Economy. In Roger Koppl and GaryMangiovi (eds),
Subjectivism in Economicanalysis: Essays in Memory of Ludwig Lachmann
(London: Routledge, 1998), pp.12-30.
IndustrialDistricts as Knowledge Communities. In Michel Bellet and Corine L’Harmet (eds)
Industry, Space and Competition (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999),pp. 70-84.
Marshall’sTheory of the Firm. In Roger E. Backhouse and John Creedy (eds)
FromClassical Economics to the theory of the firm: Essays in Honour of D P O’Brien
(Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999), pp. 175-93.
Uncertainty, Intelligence and Imagination: George Shackle’s Guide toHuman Progress.
In John Groenewegen and Jack J. Vromen (eds)Institutions and the Evolution of Capitalism:
Implications of EvolutionaryEconomics (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999), pp. 92-109.
How Do We Know? In Peter E. Earl and Stephen F. Frowen (eds) Economicsas an Art of Thought:
Essays in Memory of G. L. S. Shackle (London and NewYork: Routledge, 2000, pp. 1-24.
Comment on Ekkehart Schlicht ‘Patterned Variation. The Role ofPsychological Disposition in Social and Institutional
Evolution’. In DanielKiwit, Uwe Mummert and Manfred E. Streit (eds)
Cognition,Rationality and Institutions (Berlin, Heidelberg and New York: Springer,2000, pp. 55-60.
Correspondence coursea TechnologicalChange and Business Policy. Institutionof Electrical Engineers, 1980.
Articles
Technological Economics: its relevance to crop protection and thepesticides industry.
In TechnologicalEconomics of Crop Protection and Pest Control,
SCI Monograph 36, pp. 3-17.(London: Society of Chemical Industry, 1970).
Technological Economics of Crop Protection and Pest Control.
Reportson the Progress of Applied Chemistry, XVI, pp. 457-73, 1971.
Economics of the Sterility Principle for insect control.
InSterility Principle for Insect Control 1974, pp. 119-33. (InternationalAtomic Energy Agency, Vienna 1975).
CostBenefit Analysis and Investment Appraisal in Relation to Pestcontrol Measures. Pesticide Science, 1977, 8, 366-376.
DVickers, The Theory of the Firm:Production, Capital and Finance (New York and London: McGraw Hill, 1968).
EconomicJournal LXXX, 318 (June 1970).
CP Kindleberger (ed.), The InternationalCorporation (Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1970).
EconomicJournal 81, 324 (December 1971).
CB McGuire & R Radner (ed.), Decisionand Organisation: A Volume in Honor of Jacob Marschak
(Amsterdam: NorthHolland, 1972). Economic Journal 82,328 (December 1972).
RMarris (ed.), The Corporate Society(London: Macmillan, 1974). EconomicJournal, 85, 338 (June 1975).
DLaidler, Introduction to Microeconomics(Deddington, Oxon.: Philip Allan, 1974). Economica,43, 170 (May 1976).
HLeibenstein, Beyond Economic Man. A new foundation for microeconomics
(London: Harvard UniversityPress, 1976). Economic Journal, 86,344 (December 1976).
JM Montias, The Structure of EconomicSystems (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976).
EconomicJournal, 87, 367 (September 1977).
BH Klein, Dynamic Economics (London:Harvard University Press, 1977).
EconomicJournal, 88, 350 (June 1978).
TW Hutchison, Knowledge and Ignorance inEconomics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977).
CanadianJournal of Economics, XII, 24 (February 1979).
JPfeffer and G R Salancik, The ExternalControl of Organizations. A Resource Dependence Perspective
(New York:Harper & Row 1978). Economic Journal,89, 356 (December 1979).
DBensusan‑Butt, On Economic Man: AnEssay on the Elements of Economic Theory
(Canberra: Australian NationalUniversity Press, 1978). Economic Record,56, 152 (March 1980).
PL Williams, The Emergence of the Theoryof the Firm (London: Macmillan 1978).
Historyof Economic Thought Newsletter 24 (Spring 1980).
JamesM Buchanan & G F Thirlby (ed.), LSEEssays on Cost (New York and London: New York University Press, 1981).
Historyof Economic Thought Newsletter 29 (Autumn 1982).
PaulG Nystrom & William H Starbuck, (eds.) Handbook of Organizational Design,2 vols.
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981). Economic Journal, 93, 369 (March 1983).
RichardR Nelson & Sidney G Winter, AnEvolutionary Theory of Economic Change
(Cambridge, Mass. and London: HarvardUniversity Press, 1982).
Economic Journal,93, 371 (September 1983).
MarkCasson, The Entrepreneur: An Economic Theory (Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1982).
EconomicJournal, 93, 372 (December 1983).
HerbertA Simon, Models of Bounded Rationality,2 vols. (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: M.I.T. Press, 1982).
EconomicJournal, 95, 379 (September, 1985).
GeraldP O'Driscoll & Mario J Rizzo, TheEconomics of Time and Ignorance (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985).
Economica,214 (May 1987).
PeterEarl, Lifestyle Economics:ConsumerBehaviour in a Turbulent World (Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1986).
ScottishJournal of Political Economy, 34, 4 (November, 1987).
DouglasVickers, Money Capital in the Theory ofthe Firm: A Preliminary Analysis
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1987).
Journal of Economic Behaviour andOrganisation, 10, 1 (July 1988).
LawrenceA Boland, Methodology for a NewMicroeconomics: the Critical Foundations.
(London: Allen & Unwin, 1986). Economica,55, 219 (August 1988).
KarlAiginger, Production and Decision Theoryunder Uncertainty (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987).
Economic Journal, 98, 392 (September 1988).
JL Baxter, Social and PsychologicalFoundations of Economic Analysis.
(Hemel Hempstead:Harvester Wheatsheaf,1988). Economic Journal, 99, 397(September 1989).
MartinCurrie & Ian Steedman, Wrestling withTime: Problems in Economic Theory.
(Manchester: Manchester University Press,1990). Manchester School, LVIII, 3(September, 1990).
MarkCasson, Enterprise and Competitiveness: A Systems View of International Business
(Oxford: Clarendon Press,1990). Economic Journal, 101, 406(May 1991).
StephenLittlechild (ed), Schools of Thought inEconomics: Austrian Economics, 3 vols.
(Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1990). EconomicJournal, 101, 408, (September 1991).
GB Richardson, Information and Investment:A Study in the Working of the Competitive Economy
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991). Manchester School, LIX, 3 (September 1991).
RitaMcWilliams Tulberg (ed), Alfred Marshallin Retrospect (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1990).
Journal of Economic Studies, 18, 2 (1991).
HW Lewis, Technological Risk (New Yorkand London: W W Norton, 1990).
Science,Technology and Development, 10, 1 (April 1992).
NevaR Goodwin, Social Economics: AnAlternative Theory: Volume 1, Building Anew on Marshall's Principles
(Londonand Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991). EconomicJournal, 102, 413 (July 1992).
DavidKnoke, Organizing for Collective Action:The Political Economics of Associations
(New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1990). OrganizationalStudies, 13, 4 (1992).
WilliamLazonick, Business Organization and theMyth of the Market Economy
(Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UniversityPress, 1992).
Economic Journal, 103,416 (January 1993).
JacquesLesourne, The Economics of Order andDisorder (Oxford: ClarendonPress, 1992).
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 149,2 (June1993).
JL Ford, G. L. S. Shackle: The DissentingEconomist's Economist (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1994).
Manchester School, LXIII, 2 (June 1995).
DP O'Brien, Methodology, Money and theFirm: The Collected Essays of D. P. O'Brien,
2 volumes (Aldershot: EdwardElgar, 1994). Manchester School,LXIII, 2 (June 1995).
GeoffreyM Hodgson, Warren J Samuels and Marc Tool (eds),
The Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics,
2volumes (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1994). Journalof Economic Studies, 23, 2 (1996).
YoungBack Choi, Paradigms and Conventions:Uncertainty, Decision Making and Entrepreneurship
(Ann Arbor: University ofMichigan Press, 1993). Journal ofEconomic Methodology, 3, 2 (1996).
RaghuGarud, Praveen Rattan Nayyar and Zur Baruch Shapira (eds)
Technological
(Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997). EconomicJournal, 108, 451 (1998).
JanReinders (ed.), Economics and Evolution (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1997.
Journalof Economic Studies, 26, 2(1999).
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