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Ronald Harry Coase je britský ekonom a emeritní profesor ekonomie na chicagské univerzitě práva. Poté, co studoval externí program londýnské univerzity v letech 1927 - 29, kde studoval společně s Arnoldem Plantem, začal navštěvovat London School of Economics. Coase promoval roku 1931 - obdržel titul B.Sc.. Svůj doktorát obhájil na téže univerzitě roku 1951. Ve stejném roce emigroval do USA. Nejprve začal vyučovat na univerzitě v Buffalu. V roce 1958 se začal učit na univerzitě v Virginii. Nakonec se usadil v Chicagu v roce 1964. Začal učit na tamější univerzitě a stal se redaktorem deníku Právo a Ekonomie. V roce 1991 obdržel Nobelovu cenu.

✵ 29. prosinec 1910 – 2. září 2013
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“If you torture the data enough, nature will always confess.”

Coase states that he said this in a talk at the University of Virginia in the early 1960s and that this saying, "in a somewhat altered form, has taken its place in the statistical literature."
Alternative: "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess."
Cited in: Gordon Tullock, "A Comment on Daniel Klein's 'A Plea to Economists Who Favor Liberty'", Eastern Economic Journal, Spring 2001.
1960s-1980s, "How should economists choose?" (1981)
Zdroj: Essays on Economics and Economists

“Transaction costs were used in the one case to show that if they are not included in the analysis, the firm has no purpose, while in the other I showed, as I thought, that if transaction costs were not introduced into the analysis, for the range of problems considered, the law had no purpose.”

Ronald H. Coase The Nature of the Firm

Ronald H. Coase (1988). "The Nature of the Firm: Influence." Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 4 (No. 1, Spring): 33—47. p. 34; as cited in Eggertsson (1990; xiii)
1960s-1980s

“American institutionalists were not theoretical but anti-theoretical…. Without a theory they had nothing to pass on except a mass of descriptive material waiting for a theory, or a fire.”

Ronald H. Coase (1984). "The New Institutional Economics." Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 140 (March): 299-231; p. 230; As cited in: Malcolm Rutherford (1996), Institutions in Economics: The Old and the New Institutionalism. p. 9
1960s-1980s

“If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn't go and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, "what would I do if I were a horse?"”

Ronald Coase in speech to the "International Society of New Institutional Economics" the 17 September 1999, Washington DC. He claims he was quoting fellow economist Ely Devons which reportedly said this in a meeting
1990s and later

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