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Richard Langlois

Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

Department of Economics
University of Connecticut
341 Mansfield Road Unit 1063
Storrs, CT 06269-1063

Office hours:     MW 10:00-11:30 and 12:30-2:30
Phone: 486-3472
Office: 324 Monteith
Email: richard.langlois@uconn.edu

Personal Webpage: http://langlois.uconn.edu/

Vita: http://web.uconn.edu/ciom/Langlois_Resume.pdf

IDEAS profile (online publications): http://ideas.repec.org/e/pla2.html

Blog: Organizations and Markets

Education: B.A. (Physics and English) Williams College
           M.S. (Astronomy) Yale University
           M.S. (Engineering-Economic Systems) Stanford University
           Ph.D. (Engineering-Economic Systems) Stanford University

Honors and appointments:
University of Connecticut Alumni Association 2007   Faculty Excellence
Award in Research (Humanities/Social Sciences)

Co-recipient of the 2006 Schumpeter Prize of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society

Provost's Research Excellence Award, University of Connecticut, 2006

Adjunct (Honorary) Professor in Strategy and Business History, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

North American co-editor, Journal of Institutional Economics

Research and teaching interests:
Economics of organization; economics of social institutions; economic and business history.

Courses taught:
ECON1000 Essentials of Economics

ECON2101 Economic History of Europe

ECON6463 Economics of Organization

Selected publications:
The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler, and the New Economy. The Graz Schumpeter Lectures 2004. London: Routledge, 2007.

"Modularity in Technology and Organization," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2002.

Firms, Markets,   and Economic Change: A Dynamic Theory of Business
Institutions.
London: Routledge, 1995. (with Paul L. Robertson)

Entries on the UConn Economics blog