One of the main contributions of Ronald H. Coase was to demonstrate how mainstream economics was based on a contradictory amalgam of costly physical inputs and free institutional resources, and to gave origin the economics of institutions: each institution is a mode of allocation and...

The main contribution of Coase1 is having proven that no institution is a free lunch (among others, Pagano, 2012). it means that every institution (e.g. the market and the firm) has non-null costs of functioning, i.e. transaction costs. in a world with positive transaction costs, the...