Ronald H. Coase

Ronald H. Coase, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1910-12-29 in Willesden, United Kingdom

Gender: male

Field: British economist and Nobel laureate (1910–2013)

Biography

Ronald Harry Coase 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.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1991

Awarded on: 1991-10-15

"for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy"

Affiliations:

  • University of ChicagoChicago, IL, USA