Ronald Coase was one of those economists whose contributions were so significant and so longstanding that you assumed he had to be dead. But he wasn't, until yesterday, when he died at the age of 102.

Karl Marx not only misunderstood value and production, but he also was wrong about large-scale and small-scale property ...

Ronald Coase, who died on Monday at the age of 102, was one of the most influential thinkers in American law during the past century, even though he was an economist, not a lawyer. The work for which ...

Ronald Coase (1910-2013), the greatest of the Chicago School economists in my view, died this week. Yet, his work lives on. If it gains the recognition it merits, it will do much to enhance the ...

Ronald Coase famously began his article on the nature of firms by asking a novel and fundamental question: Why do we have firms in the first place? Why does anyone go through the trouble of organizing ...

An interesting conversation is emerging as a prelude to the upcoming Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna Austria. On the one hand, John Hagel III, a director and co-chairman of Deloitte’s Center ...

Coase taught us why companies make sense, and why the polluter-pay principle doesn’t It has been said of Ronald Coase, who died on Monday aged 102, that he wrote two articles in his career, and that ...

Ronald Coase, the Nobel Prize-winning economist famous for his eponymous theorem and his explanation of why firms are formed in the market, passed away on Monday at the age of 102. Coase’s scholarship ...

Ronald Coase, winner of the 1991 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, died in September at age 102. Thomas Hazlett interviewed Coase in our January 1997 issue. In the introduction, Hazlett explained ...

Ronald Coase, who has died aged 102, won the Nobel prize for economic sciences in 1991 for his work in discovering and clarifying the importance of transaction costs in the functioning of the economy.

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 ...

ONE morning, an economist went to buy a shirt. The one he chose was a marvel of global production. It was made in Malaysia using German machines. The cloth was woven from Indian cotton grown from ...