Article Dans Une Revue European Journal of the History of Economic Thought Année : 2010

The three roles of the 'Coase theorem' in Coase's works

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This article aims at understanding Coase’s apparently paradoxical attitude towards his eponym ‘theorem’. On the one hand, he judges as excessive the attention devoted to an assertion that makes the assumption of zero transaction costs. On the other, he has never stopped reasserting its largely questioned validity. We explain this puzzle by identifying three roles of the ‘Coase theorem’ in his works: heuristic (to bring to light the role of transaction costs), critical (of the Pigovian tradition), and normative (Coase derives policy prescriptions).

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Elodie Bertrand. The three roles of the 'Coase theorem' in Coase's works. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2010, 17 (4), pp.975-1000. ⟨10.1080/09672560903552553⟩. ⟨hal-02409115⟩
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