Dear Bruce,
Thank you! Koszegi's review is indeed excellent in summing up the recent behavioral literature although what I consulted when I read it was a working paper, will have a look at the published version, thank you. The references too are largely to the recent behavioral literature - but going to them, of course, one can always find a few cited classical contributions.
In any case, if someone else is interested, this seems to be the most comprehensive review of the classical literature as it stood after the ascent in the 70s, 80s and 90s and the problems that preoccupied it then (or the most comprehensive I have found):
Tirole, J. (1999). Incomplete contracts: Where do we stand?. Econometrica, 67(4), 741-781.
A complete historical monograph doesn't seem to exist. Nevertheless, the beginning of each chapter of Jean-Jacques Laffont's Incentives and Political Economy (2000, Oxford: Oxford University Press) gives a very clear overview with references to key contributions on the application of principal-agent models specifically to political economy.
Thank you again, further suggestions are naturally always welcome, best wishes,
Marina
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Marina,
Today I received the most recent Journal of Economic Literature in my physical mailbox. Contained therein is the following article:
Botond Koszegi, "Behavioral Contract Theory," JEL vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 1075-1118
It has extensive references--pp. 1114-18--and, although I have reviewed them, they seems like a promising place go look for the history of contract theory.
Best wishes,
Bruce Larson
University of North Carolina at Asheville
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