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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ronald Coase has received more than 770,958 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia. Ronald Coase is the 42nd most popular economist (down from 31st in 2019), the 438th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 354th in 2019) and the 9th 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 42 out of 414. Before him are Léon Walras, Wassily Leontief, Karl Polanyi, Frédéric Bastiat, Robert Solow, and Maurice Allais. After him are Friedrich List, Paul Krugman, Bernard Mandeville, Gary Becker, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, and William Stanley Jevons.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Ronald Coase ranks 20. Before him are Jacques Monod, Eric Berne, Chiang Ching-kuo, Gerda Taro, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Walter Schellenberg. After him are Dominique Pire, David Niven, Lee Byung-chul, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Helenio Herrera, and Archer Martin. Among people deceased in 2013, Ronald Coase ranks 27. Before him are Donald A. Glaser, Tom Clancy, Jang Song-thaek, Jovanka Broz, Christian de Duve, and François Jacob. After him are Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Sung Jae-gi, Bert Trautmann, Joan Fontaine, Richard Griffiths, and Robert Edwards.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ronald Coase ranks 438 out of 8,785. Before him are John Donne (1572), Ralph Fiennes (1962), Isaac Barrow (1631), Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861), Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), and Richard Attenborough (1923). After him are Cary Grant (1904), Marie of Romania (1875), Charles Dance (1946), Robert Falcon Scott (1868), William Pitt the Younger (1759), and Joan Clarke (1917).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, Ronald Coase ranks 9. Before him are David Ricardo (1772), Thomas Robert Malthus (1766), John Stuart Mill (1806), Alfred Marshall (1842), John Law (1671), and William Petty (1623). After him are William Stanley Jevons (1835), John Hicks (1904), Benjamin Graham (1894), Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877), James Mill (1773), and Thomas Mun (1571).

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