Series 1. Correspondence 1962-2018
American Economic Review/John G. Gurley – Managerial Discretion and Business Behavior 1963
The Bell Journal of Economics, includes General, Transformation, Meetings 1979-1983
Canadian Petroleum Study - Donald F. Turner ("Professional Correspondence") 1981
CATV Correspondence and Proposal 1967
Chandler, Alfred, includes Nobel Nomination 1974-2018
The Contracting and Organizations Research Institute [CORI] Proposal - Email 2000
Cyert, Richard M. 1962-1967
Defense Science Board – with Research Proposal 1975, 1989
Dixit, Avinash 2012
Edward Elgar Publishing - Transaction Cost Economics 1994-1995
Hansmann, Henry 1982
Harris, Britton 1977-1980
Humboldt Foundation and Prize 1987-1991
Indiana University 1988
Jacott, Rebecca (Becky) 2000
Japan, Incoming and Outgoing 1983
Klein, Peter 1992-1994
Lindgren, Hakan 2004-2007
Mahoney, Joe 1992
Marin, Bernd – European University Institute (EUI) 1987-1992
Mashaw, Jerry/Yale Law School 1985-1986
Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) – Japan 1988-1992
The Opening to China 1989
Perrow, Charles 1984-1985
Pitelis, Christos 1991-1992
Predatory Pricing 1977
Priest, George 1982-1983
Saarbrucken/Universităt des Saarlandes, includes a Talk 1988-1991
St. Gallen 1987
Simon, Herbert, includes Interview [Mie Augier], Papers (Transaction Cost Economics and the Carnegie Connection) 1963-2004
Sloan, Alfred P. Foundation – Transaction Cost Economics Workshop (University of Pennsylvania) 1980-1983
Teece, David J., and Williamson - Correspondence and Article
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 1986-1988
University of Michigan Law School Visit 1986
Incoming Correspondence 1962-1980
Incoming Correspondence 1981-2004
Outgoing Correspondence 1962-2006
Series 2. Administrative Materials and Personalia 1963-2014
Personalia
Curriculum Vitae and Personal Histories 1963-1983
Photographs 1995-1996
Williamson Interview [Mie Augier]
University of Pennsylvania
Offer and Promotions 1964-1968
Correspondence, Memos, and Notes 1964-1983
National Science Foundation Grant 1965
Day Chair
Center for Study of Organizational Innovation Budget 1977-1980
Yale University
Yale Offer 1976
Memos, Correspondence 1983-1984
Ph.D. in Economics of Organization - Proposal/Budget 1983-1988
Center Law, Economics Institute – Law and Organization Program/The Economics of Organization 1984
Economics of Organization – School of Organization and Management (SOM) – Discussion Group, [Yale Law School Memo] 1985-1987
University of California, Berkeley
Offer Letter and Retirement 1988, 2004
Economics of Organization Materials – Notes, Papers, Proposal (Dean Miles) 1989-2014
Cohler/Getty Correspondence 1989-1991
The Berkeley Program in Strategy 1990
Merit Reviews 1990, 1999
M.S. in Finance 1992
Academic Senate, includes Published Notes from a 1966 Meeting 1995-1996
Series 3. Ronald H. Coase 1980-2015
Correspondence, Writings by and About 1980-2015
Nobel Nomination 1984
Conference – Authors, Invitees, Cambridge Press/[Coase Conference Publication] 1986-1989
Correspondence, Papers by Others
Paris 98 1993-2006
Ronald Coase (with Aspects of Arrow and Williamson): Some of the Pieces, with Email 2015
Introduction to Conference by Williamson and Sidney G. Winter
International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) 1991-2009
Ph.D./Stanford General/Ford Foundation 1960-1963
Department of Justice 1966-1967
Library of Congress – Seminar on Industrial Concentriation – Joint Economic Committee 1975
Guggenheim – Career Narrative 1976-1978
Festschrift for Herbert A. Simon
Rotterdam, Tinbergen Chair, Erasmus 1986-1988
Conferences and Professional Organizations
American Law and Economics Association (ALEA) Journal Committee 1997
Fulbright Project 1997-2000
AAPSS Fellows [American Academy of Political and Social Science] approximately 2000
Carnegie Mellon University – Honorary Degree 2011
Series 5. Writings and Research Notes 1960-2015
Behavioral Model of the Firm 1961
Ideas from Thesis 1962
Elasticity of the Marginal Efficiency Function – Comment 1962
Managerial Discretion and Business Behavior 1963
Articles - Primarily Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Economics 1963-1971
Towards a Reconstruction of Industrial Organization 1964
Theories of the Form: A Suggested Perspective 1964
Economic Age as an Economic Variable (with R.M. Cyert) approximately 1964
Research [Dissertation] 1964-1969
Operation Economics vs. Induced Transportation Expense, includes Correspondence 1964-1975
Book Reviews: Dissertation/The Economics of Discretionary Behavior 1965
Market Conduct – The Analysis of Market Conduct; and A Stochastic Approach to Market Conduct - Notes; 2nd Draft, including Ashby approximately 1965
Schwinn approximately 1966
CATV for New York City: A Regulatory Proposal 1967
Stochastic Approaches to Antitrust (Adaptive Sequential Decision Making)
Comments - Various [Baumol - YALE COMMENT] 1967-1980
Turner/England – Market Structure in Relation to Technical and Organizational Innovation, with Correspondence 1969-1970
Notes on Organization/The Economics of the Enterprise System [1970s]
Bounded Rationality approximately 1971
Pricing Theory with Applications to Property and Casualty Insurance 1971
Elements of a Theory of an Internal Organization 1972
Opportunism, Information Disclosure, and Risk Bearing 1972
Peak Load Pricing – Bell Journal of Economics 1972-1973
Research, Research Possibilities, Outlines for Research [and] Lectures 1972-1989
Notes on the Economics of Atmosphere approximately 1973-1976
Notes, Articles by Others approximately 1973-1976
Executive Compensation and Corporation Control: Comment 1974
Regulation approximately 1974
Research Needs in Industrial Organization 1975
Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antritrust Implications – Book Reviews approximately 1975-1978
Evolution of Hierarchy 1976
The Organization of Work 1976-1978
Mechanisms of Governance/Franchise Bidding for Natural Monopolies - in General and with Respect to CATV approximately 1976
New Left – Notes 1977
Obligational Markets, with Michael L. Wachter - Reprint 1978
Economics of Organizing: On the Need for a Discriminating Approach 1978
Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) 1978-2015
Strategic Behavior – Papers, Notes 1978-1980
Drafts/Notes 1978, 2010
Economics of Predation: An Interim Assessment 1980
Dissertations, Genl, [sic] [Students?] 1980-1981
The Institutions of Efficient Contracting 1981
Efficiency, includes PPA 741 Midterm, University of Pennsylvania 1981-1988
Asset Specificity and Economic Organization – Michael H. Riordan and Williamson 1982-1985
Reviews by Williamson 1983-1984
Transaction Cost vs. Agency Treatments of the Fundamental Tradeoff of Firm and Market Organization/Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance: An Institutional Perspective 1983-1987
Contract Research 1984
Behavioral Assumptions 1984-1986
Love, Careers, and Marriage 1985
Economics of Institutions/TEoG/Amoral: Politics/Materials from Econ 224 1985-2009
Economics and Organization Theory, Outline/Sociology and Economics of Organization 1987, 1990, 2005
L-10 - Human Nature (Lecture) approximately 1987
Economics of Process 1987-1992
Conferences - Brigham Young/Camogli 1986-1988
Barnard Lecture I-II 1988
Comparative Economic Organization – German Version – Bus. Econ. 1990
Minnesota/Strategy 1990-1991
Backward Integration by the Bell Operating Companies 1990
Economic Institutions: Spontaneous and Intentional Governance 1991
Specific and General Knowledge, and Organizational Structure: Comment 1991
The Incipient Science of Organization 1991-1992
Economic Analysis of Institutions and Organizations/Explicating Bounded Rationality 1992
Bureaucracy 1992-1995
Transaction Cost Politics: Mark II/Transaction Cost Politics 1992-1996
The Corporation in its Environment- Carl Kaysen 1993
Ideas – WEA? [World Economics Association] 1993-2000
Business History and Economic Organization: The Lens of Contract Perspective – Outlines, Antitrust (New Palgrave) 1993-2008
Economics of Integrity 1993
Modern Corporation as an Efficiency Instrument, with Janet Berkovitz, includes the Corporation in Its Environment 1994
Economics of the Middle Kind 1995-2001
Opportunistic Behavior in Contracts 1996
Carroll/Spiller/Teece – Some Reflections 1997
Calculations: A Critique 1997
Organizational Theory, Chapter 9/Notes on Organizational Theory approximately 1997-2008
The Many Concepts of Contracts, includes Notes 1998-1999
1999
Miscellaneous Good Stuff #II-III 1999-2006
Human Actors and Economic Organization 1999, 2009
Theory of the Firm as Governance Structure (TFGS) - Preface, Chapters 2000-2001
Why Law, Economics and Organization 2000-2001
Consequential Easy Moves 2001
Black Box: [Jon Roping]/Opening the Black Box – Regulation - Nice, includes Email 2001-2007
Simon Memorial/Herbert Simon and Organization Theory 2001-2007
Conference on Organizations (Sweden)/Transaction Cost Economics/My Graduate School Education 2002-2014
Corporate Governance 2002-2006
Pragmatic Methodology/Empirical Microeconomics/Usakali Maki (Finnish Professor) approximately 2003-2004
Iceland I-II/Lecture – Valencia, Spain 2004
Outlines of Papers/Fragments/Notes 2005, 2011-2012
Sociology – Richter/Arruñada/Crisis and the Seeds of Relief (with BH) 2005-20o7
Interview – Questions for/China Business News Interview Questions 2006-2011
Korean Conference, [Kie Assn.]/Ghertman – Nice 2007-2008
Corporate Boards of Directors – Drafts 2007
Public Policy Disarray 2007
Introduction: Part I (Full Formation)/Regulatory Failure and Bureaucracy 2009-2011
Embarking on Life-Long Learning with Pride (MFE Graduates)/Section Club – Nobel Prize (Lecture) 2010
The Cost of Good Intentions 2011
Entrepreneurship Type II – Revision/Being Entrepreneurial 2012
Undated Writings
Series 6. Course Materials 1965-2002
Yale University 1983-1986
University of California, Berkeley approximately 1986-2002
University of California, Berkeley 1984-2001