Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1990
Disciplines
Law | Law and Economics
Center/Program
Center for Contract and Economic Organization
Center/Program
Center for Law and Economic Studies
Abstract
One significant division that emerged during the conference involved the role of risk aversion in analyzing institutional arrangements. I, along with Oliver Williamson, took the position that the risk aversion assumption deflects attention from the more significant determinants and that more progress would be made if we could bind our hands and agree to invoke attitudes toward risk only as a last resort. Professor Richter has graciously given me this opportunity to elaborate upon this theme.
Recommended Citation
Victor P. Goldberg,
Aversion to Risk Aversion in the New Institutional Economics,
146
JITE
216
(1990).
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