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Oliver E. Williamson

Oliver E. Williamson

American economist and professorWikipedia

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Sep 15, 2026

Steven SalopGUEST
11:03
And so that was all floating around.
Steven SalopGUEST
11:07
And I taught at Penn one year when Ollie Williamson was away.
Steven SalopGUEST
11:12
and read his article on the Pennington case, which was all about raising the wage rate as a barrier to entry.
Steven SalopGUEST
11:19
And then one day, Dave Sheffman walked into my office and said, in the oil industry, maybe what they're doing is raising costs.
Joseph ConiglioHOST
11:47
Yeah, I definitely think it's become mainstream.
Joseph ConiglioHOST
11:49
I think regardless of who you talk to, everybody accepts now that raising rivals costs or closure is a key part of the analysis.
Joseph ConiglioHOST
11:59
And it's funny you mentioned Williamson, because when I think of sort of the other way in which those two strands, sort of the Chicago strand and the information economics strand meet, I think his work on transaction cost economics is also in a way interpreting that about how vertical agreements can deal with incomplete information.
Steven SalopGUEST
12:15
He did everything.

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