Resources

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This section of the site reflects the resources and readings that have been considered as the Escondido Framework has evolved.  I intend to organise this in due course around the various elements of the Framework, and distinguishing between those texts that provide building blocks for the Framework, those that address elements of the Framework but reach different conclusions, and that those that are directly challenged by the it.

In the short term I will list some key texts that have provided the background the development of the Escondido Framework, in some case contributing to the building blocks but in many cases by demonstrating the shortcomings of existing theories and thinking.

If you have any suggestions for further readings, please submit them in the comment box at the foot of the page.

  • From Strategic Planning to Strategic Management – Ansoff, Declerc and Hayes
  • The Limits of Organization – Ken Arrow
  • The Origin of Wealth – Eric D Beinhocker
  •  The Modern Corporation and Private Propery – Alfred A Berle & Gardiner C Means
  • Good Economics for Hard Times – Abhijit V Banerjee and Esther Duflo
  •  The End of Theory – Richard Bookstaber
  • Linear Programming and the Theory of the Firm – Boulding and Spivey
  •  The Moral Economy, Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens – Samuel Bowles
  • Capitalism with a Human Face – Samuel Brittan
  • Against the Flow – Samuel Brittan
  • Money for Nothing – Roger Bootle
  •  Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically with Society – John Browne, with Robin Nuttal and Tommy Stadlen
  • Three Faces of Power – Kenneth E Boulding
  • Why Markets Fail – John Cassidy
  • The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton Christensen
  • The Nature of the Firm – Ronald Coase’s seminal essay of 1937, appears in a collection of essays collected under the same title in a book edited by Oliver Williamson and Sidney Winter
  •  The Future of Capitalism – Paul Collier
  •  Markets, State and People – Diane Coyle
  • The Living Company – Arie de Geus
  • The New Capitalists – Davis, Lukomnik and Pitt-Watson
  • Collapse – Jared Diamond
  • Application of Linear Programming to the Theory of the Firm – Robert Dorfman
  • Strategy: a history – Lawrence Freedman
  •  The New Industrial State – John Kenneth Galbraith
  •  The Anatomy of Power – John Kenneth Galbraith
  • The Individualised Corporation – Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher Bartlett
  • Strategies and Styles – Michael Goold and Andrew Campbell
  •  The Limits of the Market – Paul de Grauwe
  • Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms – Peter A  Hall and Rosemary C R Taylor
    Hall and Taylor’s 1996 paper describes three schools of thought that each lay claim to being the “new institutionalism”: historical institutionalism, rational choice institutionalism, and sociological institutionalism. Historical institutionalism locates the institution in the context in which it has evolved, as a response to complex causes including patterns of ideas and socio-economic development, as well as tastes, preferences and the economic pressures, includes consideration of transaction costs, that characterise rational choice institutionalism.  Sociological institutionalism emphasises cultural pressures, social norms, and how the individual asserts their identity, and highlights the importance of social legitimacy in the way that the institution adapts itself over time.  The paper provides a critique of each of the approaches, reflects on the differences, and argues for integration and synthesis between the approaches.
  • The Empty Raincoat – Charles Handy
  • Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes
  • A Theory of the Firm: Governance, Residual Claims, and Organizational Forms – Michael C Jensen
  • Capitalism 4.0 – Anatole Kaletsky
  • The Truth About Markets – John Kay
  • Who Really Matters: the Corporate Group – Art Kleiner
  • Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy – Julian Le Grand
  • The Other Invisible Hand – Julian Le Grand
  •  Politics and Markets – Charles E Lindblom
  • Swimming with Sharks – Joris Luyendijk
  • The Firm Commitment – Colin Mayer
  • Prosperity – Colin Mayer
  •  Prosperity: better business makes the greater good – Colin Mayer
  • Markets not Stakes – Patrick Minford
  • A Question of Trust – Onora O’Neill
  • The Theory of the Growth of the Firm – Edith Penrose
  • Dying for a Paycheck – Jeremy Pfeffer
  •  Capitalism in the 20th Century – Thomas Piketty
  • Capitalism and Ideology – Thomas Piketty
  • Going off the Rails – John Plender
  • Competitive Advantage – Michael Porter
  • The New Machiavelli – Jonathan Powell
  • Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists – Raghuram G Rajan and Luigi Zingales
  •  Fault Lines – Raghuram G Rajan
  •  The Third Pillar – Raghuram G Rajan
  • The Modern Firm – John Roberts
  •  Lessons from a Warzone – Louai al Roumani
  • Treatise on Social Theory – Walter Runciman
  • Breakup – David Sadtler, Andrew Campbell and Richard Koch
  • What Money Can’t Buy – Michael Sands
  • Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers – Robert M Sapolsky
  • Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy – Joseph Schumpeter
  • Rethinking Economic Behaviour – David Simpson
  • War from the ground up – Emile Simpson
  • The Theory of the Firm: Microeconomics with Endogenous Entrepreneurs, Firms, Markets and Organizations – Daniel F Spulber
  • Just Capitalism – Adair Turner
  • On Board: The Insider’s Guide to Surviving Life in the Boardroom – John Tusa
  • Market and Heirarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications – Oliver Williamson