   ronald harry coase (; 29 december 1910 â 2 september 2013) was a british economist and author. he was for much of his life the clifton r. musser professor emeritus of economics at the university of chicago law school, but was famed for his work done at the university at buffalo. after studying with the university of london external programme in 1927â29, coase entered the london school of economics, where he took courses with arnold plant.ronald coase. "nobel prize autobiography," 1991 he received the nobel prize in economics in 1991. coase, who believed economists should study real markets and not theoretical ones, established the case for the corporation as a means to pay the costs of operating a marketplace.henderson, david r.,the man who resisted blackboard economics, wall street journal, september 4, 2013, p. a15 coase is best known for two articles in particular: "the nature of the firm" (1937), which introduces the concept of transaction costs to explain the nature and limits of firms, and "the problem of social cost" (1960), which suggests that well-defined property rights could overcome the problems of externalities (see coase theorem). coase is also often referred to as the "father" of reform in the policy for allocation of the electromagnetic spectrum, based on his article "the federal communications commission" (1959), where he criticises spectrum licensing, suggesting property rights as a more efficient method of allocating spectrum to users. additionally, coase's transaction costs approach is currently influential in modern orga
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