In Nobel Award in Economics, Glimpses of Harmony Among the Social Sciences

The two American scholars who on Monday were named winners of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science study the boundaries between corporations, governments, and other economic actors. Their selection has prompted other scholars to reflect on boundaries of a different sort: the academic lines that divide the social sciences.

One of the two honorees—Oliver E. Williamson, a professor emeritus of business, economics, and law at the University of California at

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