Business History and Recent Economic Theory: Imperfect Information, Incentives, and the Internal Organization of Firms

Daniel Raff and Peter Temin, Inside the Business Enterprise: Historical Perspectives on the Use of Information (University of Chicago Press, 1991), chap. 1, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/inside-business-enterprise-historical-perspectives-use-information/business-history-and-recent-economic-theory-imperfect-information-incentives-and-internal.