Ronald Coase, who helped found the field of law and economics and won the 1991 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, died yesterday at age 102.

Yesterday, the world lost one of its great thinkers. Ronald Coase, a legendary Nobel laureate in economics, passed away at the age of 102. I was lucky to interact with him briefly last year.

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 ...

The Twitter feed of academic Siva Vaidhyanathan points to this story about how recently deceased economist Ronald Coase was chased out of the University of Virginia in the early 1960s. The heinous ...

To understand Ronald Coase's historic impact on economics, and for that matter our daily lives, consider the state of economic study when he was an undergraduate in the early 1930s. John Maynard ...

Did Ronald Coase Get Economics Wrong? His theory of why firms exist was flat out wrong even in 1937. The Creative Economy of the 21st Century is driven by value from rapid learning not just efficiency ...

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 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.

This is a story about the history of economics, mischief-making, and, ultimately, political power. It concerns the economist Ronald Coase, who died on Monday at the grand old age of a hundred and two.

Ronald Coase hated it. September 4, 2013. By Timothy B. Lee. There's a famous joke about a dairy farmer who, hoping to increase milk production, seeks the help of a theoretical physicist at the ...

Ronald Coase won the Nobel Prize in Economics for showing that social costs are symmetrical. In The Problem of Social Cost, Coase invoked the example of a farmer whose crops are trampled by the ...

Ronald Coase was known for his deep insights into economics and law. But the University of Chicago economist also had a self-deprecating side.