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Introduction to the Ronald H. Coase memorial issue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2015

GEOFFREY M. HODGSON ,
CLAUDE MÉNARD ,
MARY M. SHIRLEY  and
NING WANG
GEOFFREY M. HODGSON*
Affiliation:
Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, UK
CLAUDE MÉNARD*
Affiliation:
Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
MARY M. SHIRLEY*
Affiliation:
Ronald Coase Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815, USA
NING WANG*
Affiliation:
Ronald Coase Institute, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
*
*Email: g.m.hodgson@herts.ac.uk
**Email: claude.menard@univ-paris1.fr
***Email: mshirley@coase.org
****Email: nwang1952@gmail.com
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Abstract

This is an introduction to the twelve essays in the special memorial issue in honor of Ronald Coase. It includes a brief account of Coase's long life and some of its many achievements. Coase's distinctive, worldly and empirically-grounded approach to economics is highlighted, claiming that it has yielded major theoretical and policy insights. This introduction concludes with a summary of the contributions of the twelve essays.

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Journal of Institutional Economics , Volume 11 , Issue 2: Ronald H. Coase Memorial Issue , June 2015 , pp. 213 - 219
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Copyright © Millennium Economics Ltd 2015 

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