Finding Aid to the Oliver E. Williamson papers BANC MSS 2022/234
Michele Morgan and Marjorie Bryer
The Bancroft Library
2024
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
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Title: Oliver E. Williamson papers
Creator:
Williamson, Oliver E.
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2022/234
Physical Description:
16.25 linear feet
(13 cartons)
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3 optical discs
Physical Description:
1 diskette
3.5" floppy disk
Date (inclusive): 1960-2018
Abstract: The Oliver E. Williamson papers document his career at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania,
and Yale University. The collection has been divided into six series: Correspondence, Administrative Materials and Personalia,
Ronald H. Coase, Professional Activities, Writings and Research Notes, and Course Materials.
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English
.
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The Oliver E. Williamson papers were given to The Bancroft Library by Tamara Williamson in 2022.
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Biography
Oliver E. Williamson was born in Superior, Wisconsin in 1932. He received a BS from MIT, an MBA from Stanford University in
1960, and his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 1963. From 1963 to 1965 he was Assistant Professor of Economics at the
University of California, Berkeley, after which he became Professor of Economics, Law and Public Policy at the University
of Pennsylvania. In 1983 he joined the faculty at Yale where he founded "The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization."
He returned to the University of California, Berkeley in 1986, where he held professorships in business administration, economics,
and law. He was appointed the Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Business, Economics and Law in the Haas School of Business
in 1988. He retired in 2004. In addition to his faculty positions, Williamson served as Special Economic Assistant to Donald
F. Turner at the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division from 1966 to 1967. In 2009, Williamson was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Economics for his analysis of organizational economics and his insights into what is known as the make or buy decision.
He shared the award with Elinor Ostrom, professor of political science and professor of public and environmental affairs at
Indiana University. Williamson passed away in California in 2020.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Oliver E. Williamson papers, BANC MSS 2022/234, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
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Scope and Content Note
The Oliver E. Williamson papers document his career at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania,
and Yale University. The collection has been divided into six series: Correspondence, Administrative Materials and Personalia,
Ronald H. Coase, Professional Activities, Writings and Research Notes, and Course Materials.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Economists
Economics -- Study and teaching
Faculty papers
Nobel Prize winners
Williamson, Oliver E. -- Archives
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Economics
Walter A. Haas School of Business (University of California, Berkeley)
University of Pennsylvania. Department of Economics
Yale University. Department of Economics
Series 1.
Correspondence
1962-2018
Physical Description: Carton 1; Carton 2, folders 1-18
Scope and Content Note
Primarily professional correspondence. Williamson gave some files titles; these were arranged alphabetically. He divided most
of his correspondence into incoming and outgoing files; these were arranged chronologically. Please note that correspondence
can be found in other series, and that this series also contains writings and materials related to professional activities.
carton 1, folder 1
American Economic Review/John G. Gurley – Managerial Discretion and Business Behavior
1963
carton 1, folder 2-6
The Bell Journal of Economics, includes General, Transformation, Meetings
1979-1983
carton 1, folder 7
Canadian Petroleum Study - Donald F. Turner ("Professional Correspondence")
1981
carton 1, folder 8
CATV Correspondence and Proposal
1967
carton 1, folder 9-10
Chandler, Alfred, includes Nobel Nomination
1974-2018
carton 1, folder 11
The Contracting and Organizations Research Institute [CORI] Proposal - Email
2000
carton 1, folder 12
Cyert, Richard M.
1962-1967
carton 1, folder 13
Defense Science Board – with Research Proposal
1975, 1989
carton 1, folder 15
Edward Elgar Publishing - Transaction Cost Economics
1994-1995
carton 1, folder 17
Harris, Britton
1977-1980
carton 1, folder 18-19
Humboldt Foundation and Prize
1987-1991
carton 1, folder 21
Jacott, Rebecca (Becky)
2000
carton 1, folder 22
Japan, Incoming and Outgoing
1983
carton 1, folder 24
Lindgren, Hakan
2004-2007
carton 1, folder 26
Marin, Bernd – European University Institute (EUI)
1987-1992
carton 1, folder 27
Mashaw, Jerry/Yale Law School
1985-1986
carton 1, folder 28
Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) – Japan
1988-1992
carton 1, folder 29
The Opening to China
1989
carton 1, folder 30
Perrow, Charles
1984-1985
carton 1, folder 31
Pitelis, Christos
1991-1992
carton 1, folder 35-36
Saarbrucken/Universităt des Saarlandes, includes a Talk
1988-1991
carton 1, folder 38-42
Simon, Herbert, includes Interview [Mie Augier], Papers (Transaction Cost Economics and the Carnegie Connection)
1963-2004
carton 1, folder 43
Sloan, Alfred P. Foundation – Transaction Cost Economics Workshop (University of Pennsylvania)
1980-1983
carton 1, folder 44-45
Teece, David J., and Williamson - Correspondence and Article
carton 1, folder 46
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
1986-1988
carton 1, folder 47
University of Michigan Law School Visit
1986
carton 1, folder 48-53
Incoming Correspondence
1962-1980
carton 2, folder 1-7
Incoming Correspondence
1981-2004
carton 2, folder 8-18
Outgoing Correspondence
1962-2006
Series 2.
Administrative Materials and Personalia
1963-2014
Physical Description: Carton 2, folders 19-37; Carton 3, folders 1-26
Scope and Content Note
Consists of administrative records from Williamson's tenure at the University of Pennyslvania, Yale University, and the University
of California, Berkeley. There is also a small amount of personalia that is related to his academic career.
carton 2, folder 19-20
Curriculum Vitae and Personal Histories
1963-1983
carton 2, folder 22
Williamson Interview [Mie Augier]
University of Pennsylvania
carton 2, folder 23
Offer and Promotions
1964-1968
carton 2, folder 24-30
Correspondence, Memos, and Notes
1964-1983
carton 2, folder 31
National Science Foundation Grant
1965
carton 2, folder 33
Center for Study of Organizational Innovation Budget
1977-1980
carton 2, folder 35-37
Yale #1-2
1982-1984
Scope and Content Note
Williamson's original titles were retained. The Yale files consist of administrative records, correspondence, memos, and his
notes
carton 3, folder 1-8
Yale #3-6
1984-1989
Scope and Content Note
Williamson's original titles were retained. The Yale files consist of administrative records, correspondence, memos, and his
notes
carton 3, folder 9
Memos, Correspondence
1983-1984
carton 3, folder 10-12
Ph.D. in Economics of Organization - Proposal/Budget
1983-1988
carton 3, folder 13
Center Law, Economics Institute – Law and Organization Program/The Economics of Organization
1984
carton 3, folder 14-15
Economics of Organization – School of Organization and Management (SOM) – Discussion Group, [Yale Law School Memo]
1985-1987
University of California, Berkeley
carton 3, folder 16
Offer Letter and Retirement
1988, 2004
carton 3, folder 17-18
Economics of Organization Materials – Notes, Papers, Proposal (Dean Miles)
1989-2014
carton 3, folder 19
Cohler/Getty Correspondence
1989-1991
carton 3, folder 20
The Berkeley Program in Strategy
1990
carton 3, folder 24-26
Academic Senate, includes Published Notes from a 1966 Meeting
1995-1996
Series 3.
Ronald H. Coase
1980-2015
Physical Description: Carton 3, folders 26-38; Carton 4, folders 1-5
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence with and papers by and about Coates, a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School.
Coates received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991. Williamson was influenced by Coates transaction costs approach
to modern organizational economics.
carton 3, folder 27-29
Correspondence, Writings by and About
1980-2015
carton 3, folder 31-35
Conference – Authors, Invitees, Cambridge Press/[Coase Conference Publication]
1986-1989
carton 3, folder 36-38
Correspondence, Papers by Others
carton 4, folder 4
Ronald Coase (with Aspects of Arrow and Williamson): Some of the Pieces, with Email
2015
carton 4, folder 5
Introduction to Conference by Williamson and Sidney G. Winter
Series 4.
Professional Activities
1960-2011
Physical Description: Carton 4, folders 6-61
Scope and Contents
Materials related to Williamson's professional activities and his consultancy. Please note that tere is overlap with Series
1. Correspondence and Series 5. Writings and Research Notes
carton 4, folder 6-18
International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE)
1991-2009
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials related to conferences, such as programs, board meetings, email, and Williamson's presidential address.
Scholars featured include Richard Posner, Douglass North, Coase, and Greif. Conference locations include Washington, D.C.
and Brazil. There is also a paper, "The Sociology and Economics of Organization: One View of the Dialogue"
carton 4, folder 19
Ph.D./Stanford General/Ford Foundation
1960-1963
carton 4, folder 20-43
Department of Justice
1966-1967
Scope and Content Note
Material related to Williamson's service as Special Economic Assistant to the Head of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department
of Justice. Williamson worked with the Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Donald T. Turner, and Edwin Zimmerman,
the First Assistant, Antitrust Division. Most materials are from 1966-1967. Includes the following files: Power Pooling/Immunity;
Truth in Insurance; Attorney General's Speech to NICB; Texaco: Rebrander Restraints; Chicago Banking Conference; Sealy Brief,
Nuclear Power Industry; Tucson Newspaper; Resale Price Maintenance; Illinois Coal Mergers; Super-Giant and Conglomorate Theory;
Gailbraith; Douglas-McDonnell (#2); PPB for Antitrust; Ford – Autolite; Combination Utilities; Utah Pie; P&G Case (1967-1968);
ATT/Western (1966-1977); Sulphur-Sulexo; Merger Guidelines; Advertising: Speech, etc.; General Motors; and Giant Firm Performance
carton 4, folder 44
Library of Congress – Seminar on Industrial Concentriation – Joint Economic Committee
1975
carton 4, folder 45
Guggenheim – Career Narrative
1976-1978
carton 4, folder 46
Festschrift for Herbert A. Simon
carton 4, folder 47
Rotterdam, Tinbergen Chair, Erasmus
1986-1988
carton 4, folder 48-57
Conferences and Professional Organizations
Scope and Content Note
Consists of conference materials, email, organizational membership materials, outlines, papers, and transparencies. Includes
the following files: Micro-organizational Behavior Society (MOBS) (1986-1992); Japan (1987-1989); China I – Economic System
Reform Institute (1987-1989); Gronigen – Honorary Degree (1989); Strategic Management Conference (1989); European International
Business Academy (EIBA) Conference (1992); Incentives - re: review of Bengt Holmstrom paper – Columbia, Missouri/St. Louis
(1997); Williamson Birthday "Surprise Conference" (2002, with talks by Kenneth T. Arrow and George Ackerlof)
carton 4, folder 58
American Law and Economics Association (ALEA) Journal Committee
1997
carton 4, folder 59
Fulbright Project
1997-2000
carton 4, folder 60
AAPSS Fellows [American Academy of Political and Social Science]
approximately 2000
carton 4, folder 61
Carnegie Mellon University – Honorary Degree
2011
Series 5.
Writings and Research Notes
1960-2015
Physical Description: Carton 4, folders 62-66; Cartons 5-10; Carton 11, folders 1-15
Scope and Content Note
Includes drafts of and completed articles, book chapters, conference papers, lectures and talks, notes, and secondary source
materials. Arranged, roughly, in chronological order. Please note that writings can be found in other series. There is likely
overlap with the lectures in Series 6. Course Materials.
carton 4, folder 62-63
Behavioral Model of the Firm
1961
carton 4, folder 65
Elasticity of the Marginal Efficiency Function – Comment
1962
carton 4, folder 66
Managerial Discretion and Business Behavior
1963
carton 5, folder 1
Articles - Primarily Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Economics
1963-1971
Scope and Content Note
Selling Expense as a Barrier to Entry (1963); Managerial Discretion and Business Behavior (1963); Peak-Load Pricing and Optimal
Capacity…(1966); Market Structure in Relation to Technical and Organizational Innovation (1971)
carton 5, folder 2
Towards a Reconstruction of Industrial Organization
1964
carton 5, folder 3
Theories of the Form: A Suggested Perspective
1964
carton 5, folder 4-6
Economic Age as an Economic Variable (with R.M. Cyert)
approximately 1964
carton 5, folder 7-8
Research [Dissertation]
1964-1969
carton 5, folder 9-10
Operation Economics vs. Induced Transportation Expense, includes Correspondence
1964-1975
carton 5, folder 11
Book Reviews: Dissertation/The Economics of Discretionary Behavior
1965
carton 5, folder 12-14
Market Conduct – The Analysis of Market Conduct; and A Stochastic Approach to Market Conduct - Notes; 2nd Draft, including
Ashby
approximately 1965
carton 5, folder 15
Schwinn
approximately 1966
carton 5, folder 16
CATV for New York City: A Regulatory Proposal
1967
carton 5, folder 17
Stochastic Approaches to Antitrust (Adaptive Sequential Decision Making)
carton 5, folder 18
Comments - Various [Baumol - YALE COMMENT]
1967-1980
carton 5, folder 19
Turner/England – Market Structure in Relation to Technical and Organizational Innovation, with Correspondence
1969-1970
carton 5, folder 20
Notes on Organization/The Economics of the Enterprise System [1970s]
carton 5, folder 21
Bounded Rationality
approximately 1971
carton 5, folder 22
Pricing Theory with Applications to Property and Casualty Insurance
1971
carton 5, folder 23
Elements of a Theory of an Internal Organization
1972
carton 5, folder 24
Opportunism, Information Disclosure, and Risk Bearing
1972
carton 5, folder 25
Peak Load Pricing – Bell Journal of Economics
1972-1973
carton 5, folder 26-30
Research, Research Possibilities, Outlines for Research [and] Lectures
1972-1989
carton 5, folder 31-32
Notes on the Economics of Atmosphere
approximately 1973-1976
carton 5, folder 33
Notes, Articles by Others
approximately 1973-1976
carton 5, folder 34
Executive Compensation and Corporation Control: Comment
1974
carton 5, folder 35
Regulation
approximately 1974
carton 5, folder 36
Research Needs in Industrial Organization
1975
carton 5, folder 37
Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antritrust Implications – Book Reviews
approximately 1975-1978
carton 6, folder 1-2
Evolution of Hierarchy
1976
carton 6, folder 3
The Organization of Work
1976-1978
carton 6, folder 4
Mechanisms of Governance/Franchise Bidding for Natural Monopolies - in General and with Respect to CATV
approximately 1976
carton 6, folder 6
Obligational Markets, with Michael L. Wachter - Reprint
1978
carton 6, folder 7
Economics of Organizing: On the Need for a Discriminating Approach
1978
carton 6, folder 8-39
Transaction Cost Economics (TCE)
1978-2015
Scope and Content Note
Drafts, notes, papers, presentations related to Williamson's writings about Transaction Cost Economics. Files include TCE:
The Governance of Contractual Relations; TCE - What Are the Questions?; Lectures; TCE Meets the Sociology of Organization;
TCE and the Evolving Cost of Organization; TCE and the Carnegie Connection; TCE in Perspective/ Transaction Cost Economics:
Vol I: Theory; TCE: Hazards and Mitigation; Why Prediction?/ Transaction Cost Economics (Various); Notes - TCE and Other;
TCE Reprint; TCE and Public Policy/TCE and Agriculture: An Excursion/Transaction Cost: In Perspective; Transaction Cost Economics:
A Perspective (Textbook), notes, drafts; The Base Case and Beyond: Relations Between TCE; Talk - TCE and Beyond; TCE (Revised):
A Perspective; TCE presentations and papers (including TCE and New Institutional Economics Perspective); and TCE: Outreach
carton 7, folder 1-5
Transaction Cost Economics (TCE)
Scope and Content Note
Includes the following files: TCE: The Project and the Prospects, approximately 2012; Presentation – Mexico #2, 2013; TCE
and the Road to the Nobel Prize; TCE Perspectives [Autobiography]; and TCE Intro
carton 7, folder 6
Strategic Behavior – Papers, Notes
1978-1980
carton 7, folder 9
Economics of Predation: An Interim Assessment
1980
carton 7, folder 10
Dissertations, Genl, [sic] [Students?]
1980-1981
carton 7, folder 11
The Institutions of Efficient Contracting
1981
carton 7, folder 12-13
Conferences
Scope and Content Note
American Law and Economics Association (ALEA) – the New Science of Organization, 1981-1983; and Scotland, 1981-1982
carton 7, folder 14
Efficiency, includes PPA 741 Midterm, University of Pennsylvania
1981-1988
carton 7, folder 15-19
1982
Scope and Content Note
The Problem of Information; Preface and Outlines [Transaction Cost Economics?]; Relational Contracts; Efficient Labor Organization
- Conference - York
carton 7, folder 20-22
Asset Specificity and Economic Organization – Michael H. Riordan and Williamson
1982-1985
carton 7, folder 23-25
1983
Scope and Content Note
What Is Bonded Rationality?, a Notebook; and Information Economics (Milgrom);
carton 7, folder 26
Reviews by Williamson
1983-1984
carton 7, folder 27
Transaction Cost vs. Agency Treatments of the Fundamental Tradeoff of Firm and Market Organization/Corporate Governance and
Corporate Finance: An Institutional Perspective
1983-1987
carton 7, folder 29
Behavioral Assumptions
1984-1986
carton 7, folder 30
Love, Careers, and Marriage
1985
carton 7, folder 31
Economics of Institutions/TEoG/Amoral: Politics/Materials from Econ 224
1985-2009
carton 7, folder 32
Economics and Organization Theory, Outline/Sociology and Economics of Organization
1987, 1990, 2005
carton 7, folder 33
L-10 - Human Nature (Lecture)
approximately 1987
carton 7, folder 34
Economics of Process
1987-1992
carton 7, folder 35-36
Conferences - Brigham Young/Camogli
1986-1988
carton 7, folder 37-39
Barnard Lecture I-II
1988
carton 7, folder 40
Comparative Economic Organization – German Version – Bus. Econ.
1990
carton 7, folder 41
Minnesota/Strategy
1990-1991
carton 7, folder 42
Backward Integration by the Bell Operating Companies
1990
carton 7, folder 43
Economic Institutions: Spontaneous and Intentional Governance
1991
carton 7, folder 44
Specific and General Knowledge, and Organizational Structure: Comment
1991
carton 7, folder 45
The Incipient Science of Organization
1991-1992
carton 7, folder 46-50
Public and Private Bureaus
1993-1994
Scope and Content Note
Williamson's writings on public and private bureaus and bureaucracies. Includes miscellaneous; proposals and notes; Public
and Private Bureaus: A Transaction Cost Economics Assessment; and Public and Private Bureaus/USC
carton 8, folder 1-6
Public and Private Bureaus
1993-2010
Scope and Content Note
Includes Public and Private Bureaus/USC; drafts of papers on bureaucracy; outlines
carton 8, folder 7-8
Economic Analysis of Institutions and Organizations/Explicating Bounded Rationality
1992
carton 8, folder 9-13
International Conferences/Lectures
1992-1993
Scope and Content Note
Tokyo – transparencies; Cracow – Warsaw lecture; St. Petersburg lectures; and Venice
carton 8, folder 16-27
Transaction Cost Politics: Mark II/Transaction Cost Politics
1992-1996
carton 8, folder 28
The Corporation in its Environment- Carl Kaysen
1993
carton 8, folder 29
Ideas – WEA? [World Economics Association]
1993-2000
carton 8, folder 30-35
Business History and Economic Organization: The Lens of Contract Perspective – Outlines, Antitrust (New Palgrave)
1993-2008
carton 8, folder 36
Economics of Integrity
1993
carton 9, folder 1-3
1994
Scope and Content Note
Behavioral Theory of Politics; Unpacking Governance Box; and Lecture at the Sorbonne (L-1)
carton 9, folder 4-8
Modern Corporation as an Efficiency Instrument, with Janet Berkovitz, includes the Corporation in Its Environment
1994
carton 9, folder 9-10
1995
Scope and Content Note
[TURKU] Law, Economics, and Organization [Finland]; and The Politics and Economics of Redistribution and Inefficiency – New
Institutional Economics (NIE)
carton 9, folder 11
Economics of the Middle Kind
1995-2001
carton 9, folder 12
Opportunistic Behavior in Contracts
1996
carton 9, folder 13
Carroll/Spiller/Teece – Some Reflections
1997
carton 9, folder 14
Calculations: A Critique
1997
carton 9, folder 15-16
Organizational Theory, Chapter 9/Notes on Organizational Theory
approximately 1997-2008
carton 9, folder 17-19
1998
Scope and Content Note
Comparative Institutional Economics, Witold J. Heinsz and Williamson; Why Prediction? – Bouma; Economic and Organizational
Analysis of the Modern Corporation – lecture
carton 9, folder 20
The Many Concepts of Contracts, includes Notes
1998-1999
carton 9, folder 21-26
1999
Scope and Content Note
Budapest – Von Neuman Prize [talk]; WEA Introductory Remarks (World Economic Association); Hubris/Candor; Contract and Economic
Organization; Hierarchies and Markets: Transaction Costs and Property Rights (International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral
Science); and Semi-Formal and Fully Formal – Theories of Incomplete Contracting
carton 9, folder 27-28
Miscellaneous Good Stuff #II-III
1999-2006
carton 9, folder 29
Human Actors and Economic Organization
1999, 2009
carton 9, folder 30-32
2000
Scope and Content Note
WEAI – Sydney, AGMS - lectures/transparencies; Empirical Microeconomics: Another Perspective (chapter); and Close Reasoning
and Economic Organization – lecture and paper
carton 9, folder 33-40
Theory of the Firm as Governance Structure (TFGS) - Preface, Chapters
2000-2001
carton 9, folder 41
Why Law, Economics and Organization
2000-2001
carton 9, folder 42
Consequential Easy Moves
2001
carton 9, folder 43-44
Black Box: [Jon Roping]/Opening the Black Box – Regulation - Nice, includes Email
2001-2007
carton 10, folder 1-2
Simon Memorial/Herbert Simon and Organization Theory
2001-2007
carton 10, folder 3-6
2002
Scope and Content Note
USAID; Game Theory (VII.2) – email, notes [course materials?]; International Economic Organization; and Organizations Are
a Mess? (approximately 2002)
carton 10, folder 7
Conference on Organizations (Sweden)/Transaction Cost Economics/My Graduate School Education
2002-2014
carton 10, folder 8-14
Corporate Governance
2002-2006
Scope and Content Note
Includes
Governance – Outlines [The Mechanisms of Governance]; The Governance of Contractual Relations – Outline for Book; Horst Claus
Recktenwald Prize – The Economics of Governance; and Corporate Governance – Trento – Power Point, Transparencies, Notes
carton 10, folder 15-16
Pragmatic Methodology/Empirical Microeconomics/Usakali Maki (Finnish Professor)
approximately 2003-2004
carton 10, folder 17-19
Iceland I-II/Lecture – Valencia, Spain
2004
carton 10, folder 20-21
Outlines of Papers/Fragments/Notes
2005, 2011-2012
carton 10, folder 22-23
Sociology – Richter/Arruñada/Crisis and the Seeds of Relief (with BH)
2005-20o7
carton 10, folder 24-25
Interview – Questions for/China Business News Interview Questions
2006-2011
carton 10, folder 26-27
Korean Conference, [Kie Assn.]/Ghertman – Nice
2007-2008
carton 10, folder 28-29
Corporate Boards of Directors – Drafts
2007
carton 10, folder 30
Public Policy Disarray
2007
carton 10, folder 31-35
Whitner - Economics and Organization Theory – Remarks/The Economics of Organization: With Reference to Transaction Cost Economics
and More Generally
approximately 2008-2010
Scope and Content Note
Also includes files on Ogranization Theory and notes re: organization
carton 10, folder 36-37
Introduction: Part I (Full Formation)/Regulatory Failure and Bureaucracy
2009-2011
carton 10, folder 38-39
Embarking on Life-Long Learning with Pride (MFE Graduates)/Section Club – Nobel Prize (Lecture)
2010
carton 10, folder 40
The Cost of Good Intentions
2011
carton 10, folder 41-42
Entrepreneurship Type II – Revision/Being Entrepreneurial
2012
carton 10, folder 43-45
2012
Scope and Content Note
Implementation (approximately 2012); Honorary Degree at Paris-Dauphine – Remarks; Harold and Olly and Applied Microeconomics
– Talks
carton 10, folder 46-50
Undated Writings - Papers, Conferences, Notes
Scope and Content Note
Folders aren't dated but writings inside might have dates on them. Extreme Instance References; Extreme Instance Analysis;
New Institutional Economics (NIE) – Oslo; and Maastricht – Lectures
carton 11, folder 1-15
Undated Writings
Scope and Content Note
Folders aren't dated - writings inside may have dates on them. Some of these may be for courses Williamson taught. Includes
How to Solve the Problems of the New Economic Order – Morocco; Market Failure; Organization Theory; Received Microtheory;
notes, figures, draft pages; Investment Criteria – Notes; preface to untitled project; Antitrust Econ General (outline, etc.);
Cooperatives; Preaching to the Choir – More or Less; Workable Competition; Dominant Firm Model; Notes on Discretion Model;
Active Projects
Series 6.
Course Materials
1965-2002
Physical Description: Carton 11, folders 16-35; Cartons 12-13
Scope and Content Note
Consists of course materials for classes Williamson taught at the University of Pennsylvania (approximately 1965-1983), Yale
(approximately 1983-1986), and UC Berkeley (1986 until his retirement). Includes class lectures, exams, syllabi, and course
readers. There is overlap with Series 5. Writings
carton 11, folder 16-36
University of Pennsylvania
approximately 1965-1980
Scope and Content Note
Includes course notes, exams, lectures, and syllabi for economics, public policy, and sociology classes. Course titles include
Industrial Organiation, Organizational Analysis, and Antitrust Economics.
carton 12, folder 1-2
University of Pennsylvania
approximately 1978-1980
Scope and Content Note
Antitrust Economics lectures
carton 12, folder 3-5
Yale University
1983-1986
Scope and Content Note
Includes course materials (syllabi, lectures, and notes), and administrative records (memos and correspondence) re: the School
of Management (SOM); and classes on Organization Theory; Law, Economics, and Organization: Antitrust. Please note there may
be course materials in the Yale files in Series 2.
carton 12
University of California, Berkeley
approximately 1986-2002
Scope and Content Note
Primarily course materials from Econ 224, [The Economics of Institutions]. Includes lectures, exams, course notes, syllabi,
and readings. There are some materials from Antitrust Economics (Penn, 1979). Files are well-labeled with Williamson's original
titles.
carton 13
University of California, Berkeley
1984-2001
Scope and Content Note
Primarily course materials from Econ 224, The Economics of Institutions. Includes lectures, exams, course notes, syllabi,
readings, and course readers (from 1997 and 1999). There are also Contract Lectures, materials from classes in Business History,
Organization Theory (BA 296), Law 220, and a workshop on Institutional Analysis in the Haas Business School (IDS 270). Also
includes seminars Williamson taught at various schools (on subjects like bureacracy). Files are well-labeled with Williamson's
original titles.
