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CONTENTS

1–23 The problem of credible commitment in reconstruction C HRISTOPHER J. COYNE AND P ETER J. BOETTKE

25–46 From fictions and aggregates to real entities in the theory of the firm D AVID G INDIS

47–64 Linking alternative theories of the firm – a first empirical application to the liquefied natural gas industry S OPHIA R UESTER AND A NNE N EUMANN

65–87 Institutions, diseases, and economic progress: a unified framework S AMBIT B HATTACHARYYA

89–115 Exports and legal institutions: exploring the connection in transition economies T ANYA W ANCHEK

Fragment 117–136 Marx to-day: capitalism and socialism (1925) J OHN R. COMMONS

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