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Ronald Coase, Firms and Markets

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  • Priest George L.

    (Yale Law School, New Haven, CT 06511, USA)

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This paper will attempt to explain how Coase, from his earliest important paper, “The Nature of the Firm,” transformed his interest from firm organization, determined by transaction costs, to the influence of firm choices and individual choices – collectively, the market – on the allocation of resources, including on the efforts of governmental organizations to allocate resources. Over time, less interested in firm organization, Coase directed his work to showing how the market would invariably dominate the government with respect to the allocation of resources, limited by transaction costs. The paper will attempt to show, however, in contrast to widespread views, that there is little link between Coase’s focus on transaction costs in “The Nature of the Firm” and his subsequent attention to those costs in “The Problem of Social Cost.” The paper will include anecdotal support: I was a student of Mr. Coase for many years.

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  • Priest George L., 2014. "Ronald Coase, Firms and Markets," Man and the Economy, De Gruyter, vol. 1(2), pages 143-157, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:maneco:v:1:y:2014:i:2:p:15:n:3
    DOI: 10.1515/me-2014-0019
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    Cited by:

    1. Mohrman Henry, 2015. "Coase on the Coase Theorem, “The Social Cost Controversy”," Man and the Economy, De Gruyter, vol. 2(2), pages 215-239, December.
    2. Benito Arruñada, 2016. "Coase and the departure from property," Chapters, in: Claude Ménard & Elodie Bertrand (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Ronald H. Coase, chapter 22, pages 305-319, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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