Uncertainty and the social organization of economic activity
挖掘奈特《风险、不确定性与利润》最后两章，探讨不确定性如何影响经济活动的社会组织，对理解奈特早期关于自由企业与社会经济组织权衡的思想有参考价值。
Abstract The last two chapters of Frank H. Knight's Risk, Uncertainty and Profit are seldom cited and frequently ignored. But in those chapters, Knight moves from entrepreneurial judgment and organizational strategies to meet the dilemmas uncertainty presents in a firm to the wider question of how uncertainty affects the social organization of economic activity. Ignoring the concluding chapters of Knight's book means we miss an important part of his early career thoughts on the tradeoffs between free enterprise and the social organization of economic activity. The purpose of the paper is to lay out the perspective on social economic organization that he took in the final two chapters of his first major work against the context of his other contemporary writings.