Ronald H. Coase was one of the most interesting and influential economists of his century. He was born in 1910 in a suburb of London and recently passed away at the age of 102 in Chicago, close to the ...

The Observer: Professor Coase said many times that the Coase Theorem should be understood as saying that transaction costs cannot be neglected and that the initial allocation of property rights ...

Subscribe for analysis that goes beyond the noise. I think the success of the Coase Theorem — because it’s discussed all over the place — is an interesting illustration of what’s wrong with economics ...

There's a famous joke about a dairy farmer who, hoping to increase milk production, seeks the help of a theoretical physicist at the local university. After carefully studying the problem, the ...

The Coase Theorem - postulated by economist Ronald Coase in 1937 which led to a Nobel Prize in Economics for Dr. Coase in 1991 - essentially states that when a conflict of property rights arises ...

At 101 years old, renowned University of Chicago Law School economist Ronald H. Coasehas never stopped generating new ideas or giving his witty, confident take on past intellectual skirmishes. His ...

EARLIER this week Ronald Coase, a winner of the economics Nobel and one of the most important economists of the past century, died at 102. This week's Free exchange column looks at his life and ...

From Kevin Williamson’s excellent article in National Review “The Truth About Fracking“: “There are other workaday environmental problems endemic to fracking: For the three to five days a frack lasts, ...

Ronald Coase, a British-born University of Chicago economist whose Nobel Prize-winning work on the role of corporations stemmed from visits in the early 1930s to American companies including Ford ...

Editor's note: On September 2, 2013 Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase, died at the age of 102. Coase had a profound influence on China's reform and opening-up. In 2008 he hosted an international seminar on ...