Prologue: The Mechanisms of Governance -- 1. Transaction Cost Economics and the Carnegie Connection -- 2. Chester Barnard and the Incipient Science of Organization -- 3. Transaction Cost Economics -- 4. Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Structural Alternatives -- 5. Credible Commitments: Using Hostages to Support Exchange -- 6. Economic Institutions: Spontaneous and Intentional Governance -- 7. Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance -- 8. The Politics and Economics of Redistribution and Inefficiency -- 9. Transaction Cost Economics and Organization Theory -- 10. Calculativeness, Trust, and Economic Organization -- 11. Delimiting Antitrust -- 12. Strategizing, Economizing, and Economic Organization -- 13. The Institutions and Governance of Economic Development and Reform -- 14. Transaction Cost Economics and the Evolving Science of Organization.