Metaphors of Transaction Cost Economics

@article{Pessali2009MetaphorsOT,
  title={Metaphors of Transaction Cost Economics},
  author={Huascar Fialho Pessali},
  journal={Review of Social Economy},
  year={2009},
  volume={67},
  pages={313 - 328}
}
  • H. Pessali
  • Published 1 September 2009
  • Economics
  • Review of Social Economy
Abstract Metaphors are part of our daily lives as they help us understand the world. Economics, as with other areas of knowledge, cannot go without metaphors. Transaction Cost Economics (TCE)—a prominent theoretical framework on economic organisation—is no different: it has been built on a set of metaphors. This article gathers and discusses three of the key metaphors of TCE—transaction costs as frictions, human beings as “contractual men,” and economic selection between mechanisms of… 
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