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Introduction to the Ronald H. Coase memorial issue

  • GEOFFREY M. HODGSON (a1), CLAUDE MÉNARD (a2), MARY M. SHIRLEY (a3) and NING WANG (a4)

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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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COPYRIGHT: © Millennium Economics Ltd 2015 

Corresponding author

*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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