Profiles
Per Bylund
Per Bylund is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship & Records-Johnston Professor of Free Enterprise in the School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and two full-length books: The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized: How Regulations Affect our Everyday Lives, and The Problem of Production: A New Theory of the Firm. For more information see PerBylund.com
Previous Positions
John F. Baugh Center Research Professor, Department of Entrepreneurship, Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University. 2013-2015
Adjunct Professor, Management Department, Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business, University of Missouri. 2012-2013.
Postdoctoral research fellow in economics and entrepreneurship, Mises Institute. 2012.
Education
Ph.D., Applied Economics; University of Missouri, July 2012. Dissertation Title: “Specialization and the Firm.” Advisor: Peter G. Klein.
M.A., Political Science. Lund University, Sweden, June 2005. Thesis title: “Man and Matter: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Justification of Ownership in Land from the Basis of Self-Ownership.” (Published.) Advisor: Mats Sjölin.
M.S., Informatics. Jönköping International Business School, Sweden, June 1999. Thesis title: “Micro Payments on the Internet: Criteria for Micro Payment Systems.” (Won BEST scholarship.) Advisor: Carita Åbom.
B.Sc., Business Administration. Jönköping International Business School, March 1998. Thesis title: “Timeliness in Financial Reporting: A Case Study of Two Manufacturing Companies Listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.” Advisor: Carita Åbom. (Majors: corporate finance, accounting).
Research
Refereed Publications
Bylund PL, Manish GP. 2016. “The Mises-Knight Theory of Uncertainty and its Implications for Entrepreneurship, Equilibrium and the Theory of the Firm.” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 34B: 305-336.
Wood MS, Bylund PL, Bradley, SW. 2016. “The Influence of Tax and Regulatory Policies on Entrepreneurs’ Opportunity Evaluation Decisions.” Management Decision 54(5): 1160-1182.
Bylund PL. 2015. “Explaining Firm Emergence: Specialization, Transaction Costs, and the Integration Process.” Managerial and Decision Economics 36(4): 221-238. [SSRN]
Bylund PL. 2015. “Signifying Williamson’s Contribution to the Transaction Cost Approach: An Agent-Based Simulation of Coasean Transaction Costs and Specialization.” Journal of Management Studies 52(1): 148-174.[SSRN]
Klein PG, Bylund PL. 2014. “The Place of Austrian Economics in Contemporary Entrepreneurship Research.” Review of Austrian Economics 27(3): 259-279. [SSRN]
Bylund PL. 2014. “Ronald Coase’s ‘Nature of the Firm’ and the Argument for Economic Planning.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 36(3): 305-329. [SSRN]
Bylund PL. 2011. “Division of Labor and the Firm: An Austrian Attempt at Explaining the Firm in the Market .” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics , 14(2): 188-215. [SSRN]
Bylund PL. 2010. “Piracy, Inc.: On the Bearing of the Firm Analogy to Pirate Organization .” Review of Austrian Economics 23(3): 299-305. [SSRN]
Bylund PL. 2008. “Unblocking a Free Market Perspective in Labor Economics.” Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics X(2): 236-247. [SSRN]
