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Ronald Harry Coase was a British economist and author. Coase was educated at the London School of Economics, where he was a member of the faculty until 1951. He was the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School, where he arrived in 1964 and remained for the rest of his life. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991.
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culture · British economist and Nobel laureate (1910–2013) · economist · historian · writer · university teacher · also Ronald Coase, Ronald Harry Coase, R. H. Coase, Ronald H. Coase, Coase
Born 29 December 1910 · Died 2 September 2013 · Q188113
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“in a somewhat altered form, has taken its place in the statistical literature.”
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“is the part of law and economics in which I am most interested.”
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Reason: RIP Ronald Coase, the Economist Who Hated Math
Yahoo: Remembering an influential thinker, Ronald Coase
CNBC: Ronald Coase and the nature of shadow banking
The Verge: Ronald Coase, the ‘father’ of the spectrum auction, dies at 102
Wall Street Journal: The Wisdom of Ronald Coase
Bloomberg L.P.: Ronald Coase, Nobelist Who Studied Corporations, Dies at 102
Bloomberg L.P.: Ronald Coase's Life's Work: The Real World Exists
The Washington Post: Ronald Coase is dead. Here are five of his papers you need to read.
Forbes: Ronald Coase Was The Greatest Of The Many Great University Of Chicago Economists
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Died 2013-09-02.
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“Alternative: "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.”
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (1998).
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“The Institutional Structure of Production”
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences — for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy.
Awarded Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1991).
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Coase wrote that he feared "The Problem of Social Cost" had been widely misunderstood
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“The Firm, the Market, and the Law”
“How should economists choose?”
“The Logic of Collective Action”
And became the co-editor of the Journal of Law and Economics with Aaron Director
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While Coase was a member of the Economics department at the University of Virginia, "The Problem of Social Cost" provided the key insight that it is unclear where the blame for externalities lies
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Published “The Problem of Social Cost” in The Journal of Law and Economics — cited 9,976 times.
During a seminar in Chicago, to twenty senior economist including George Stigler and Milton Friedman
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Coase received negative feedback from the faculty at the University of Chicago over his conclusions and apparent conflicts with A
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Published “The Nature of the Firm” in Economica — cited 14,375 times.
At LSE the course on the Economics of Public Utilities
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5 months before I took the final examinations for the B
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Born 1910-12-29.
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