Richard Normand Langlois
Richard Normand Langlois is an American economist and currently professor at the University of Connecticut. He studied physics and English literature at Williams College, he received a Master's in astronomy from Yale University, and he received his PhD in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford.
Since May 2008, Langlois is also a contributor to the blog .
He is attributed with first presenting the Vanishing Hand theory.
Literature
- 1982, Subjective Probability and Subjective Economics. New York : NY, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, NYU, FAS, Department of Economics, Working Paper
- 1984, Kaleidic and Structural Interpretations of Genuine Uncertainty. New York : NY, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, NYU, FAS, Department of Economics, Working Paper
- 1986, Economics as a Process: Essays in the New Institutional Economics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xi, 262 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- 1988, “Economic change and the boundaries of the firm,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 144, pp. 635–57
- 1994, “Risk and Uncertainty” in Peter Boettke, The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics. Brookfield, Vermont : Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 118–22.
- 1995, Firms, markets, and economic change : a dynamic theory of business institutions / Richard N. Langlois and Paul L. Robertson. London; New York : Routledge, 1995. xii, 185 p. : ill.; 24 cm.,
- 1998, “Capabilities and the theory of the firm,” in N. J. Foss and B. J. Loasby, Economic Organisation, Capabilities and Co-ordination. London: Routledge.
- 2007, The dynamics of industrial capitalism : Schumpeter, Chandler, and the new economy / Richard N. Langlois. Abingdon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2007.
- 2023, The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise. Princeton University Press.