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Ronald Coase

1910 - 2013

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Ronald Harry Coase (; 29 December 1910 – 2 September 2013) was a British economist and author. Coase was educated at the London School of Economics, where he was a member of the faculty until 1951. He was the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School, where he arrived in 1964 and remained for the rest of his life. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ronald Coase is the 51st most popular economist (down from 42nd in 2019), the 603rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 438th in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Economist.

Ronald Coase is most famous for his work on the Coase theorem, which states that in the absence of transaction costs, the allocation of resources will result in an efficient outcome.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Ronald Coase ranks 51 out of 414. Before him are Jacques Delors, Walt Whitman Rostow, William Petty, Bertil Ohlin, Tansu Çiller, and Edmund Phelps. After him are Gary Becker, Trygve Haavelmo, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Karl Polanyi, Jeffrey Sachs, and Werner Sombart.

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Among people born in 1910, Ronald Coase ranks 30. Before him are Chiang Ching-kuo, Eric Berne, Katherine Oppenheimer, Michel Aflaq, Helenio Herrera, and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. After him are Ludwig Stumpfegger, Kim Yong-sik, William Hanna, Samuel Barber, William Shockley, and Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Among people deceased in 2013, Ronald Coase ranks 36. Before him are Jovanka Broz, Tony Lip, Lou Reed, Nílton Santos, Jerome Karle, and Jang Song-thaek. After him are Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Georges Moustaki, Joan Fontaine, Rochus Misch, Kenneth G. Wilson, and Richard Griffiths.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ronald Coase ranks 603 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Attenborough (1923), David Lean (1908), Thomas Carlyle (1795), William Oughtred (1574), Tim Curry (1946), and Charles Dance (1946). After him are Philip Sclater (1829), John E. Walker (1941), John Collier (1850), Andrew Huxley (1917), Peter Gabriel (1950), and Jonathan Pryce (1947).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, Ronald Coase ranks 10. Before him are Thomas Robert Malthus (1766), John Stuart Mill (1806), Alfred Marshall (1842), John Law (1671), John Hicks (1904), and William Petty (1623). After him are Lionel Robbins (1898), Benjamin Graham (1894), Beatrice Webb (1858), William Stanley Jevons (1835), Richard Stone (1913), and John A. Hobson (1858).

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