Coase Quotes

Technology is at a point where we should allow multiple parties to occupy the same spectral space. — Ronald Coase

Changes like the telephone and telegraphy, which tend to reduce the cost of organizing spatially, will tend to increase the size of the firm. — Ronald Coase

I've been wrong so often, I don't find it extraordinary at all. — Ronald Coase

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics. — Ronald Coase

You wouldn't think there was a need for a Coase Theorem, really. — Ronald Coase

Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world. — Ronald Coase

After a lustre of the moon, we say
We have not the need of any paradise,
We have not the need of any seducing hymn. — Wallace Stevens

I hate when people ask me to: "Massage the data". — Ronald Coase

You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases. — Ronald Coase

Data can't speak for itself; it's up to you to give it a voice. Try to speak truthfully. — Ronald Coase

The law of property determines who owns something, but the market determines how it will be used. — Ronald Coase

Beyonce adores my little boy. She takes him everywhere. — Solange Knowles

I'm no enthusiast for the Coase Theorem. I don't like it, but it's widely used. — Ronald Coase

I tend to regard the Coase theorem as a stepping stone on the way to an analysis of an economy with positive transaction costs. — Ronald Coase

I can't promise you forever, Blaine. Hell, I don't even know if I can promise you tomorrow. And you deserve so much more than a fling. — Nya Rayne

People have used my views for purposes which are very different from mine. — Ronald Coase

If something excites you, go for it. — Chad Hurley

I ought to warn you, dear, he can get rather wild when he's hungry — Wilkie Martin

What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the institutional structure of production. — Ronald Coase

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. — Tom Wolfe

In my long life, I have known some great economists, but I have never counted myself among their number nor walked in their company. — Ronald Coase

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess. — Ronald Coase

Ronnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it. — Ronald Coase