Cover -- UNCERTAINTY AND ECONOMIC EVOLUTION: Essays in honor of Armen A. Alchian -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION: Armen A. Alchian's influence on economics -- 1 RATIONALITY, EVOLUTION, AND ACQUISITIVENESS -- 2 INFORMATION, CHANCE, AND EVOLUTION: Alchian and the economics of self-organization -- 3 EVOLUTION AND SPONTANEOUS UNIFORMITY: Evidence from the evolution of the limited liability company -- 4 WHY HOLD-UPS OCCUR: The self-enforcing range of contractual relationships -- 5 ARMEN ALCHIAN'S CONTRIBUTION TO MACROECONOMICS -- 6 APPROPRIABLE RENTS FROM YELLOWSTONE PARK: A case of incomplete contracting -- 7 CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND CONSTITUTIONAL PUBLIC CHOICE: Institutional diversity and economic performance on American Indian reservations -- 8 ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION UNDER EAST EUROPEAN STATE SOCIALISM -- 9 FREEDOM, WEALTH, AND COERCION -- 10 DISCOVERY FACTORS OF ECONOMIC FREEDOM: Respondence, epiphany, and serendipity -- 11 IN CELEBRATION OF ARMEN ALCHIAN'S EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.