Spanish Abstract: El referente teórico al que se nos ha acostumbrado mirar, cuando pretendemos establecer algún tipo de análisis sobre el desarrollo, ha sido aquel que pretende valorar el nivel de garantías de condiciones materiales de las cuales dispone inmediata o potencialmente un país....

Dieser Beitrag erläutert (1) die Fragestellung des Hayekschen Gesamtwerks. Ferner skizziert er (2), wie Hayek diese Fragestellung mit seinem Ansatz bearbeitet hat. Sodann werden (3) Stärken und Schwächen dieses Ansatzes diskutiert. Abschließend (4) formuliert dieser Beitrag Lektionen für...

Coase’s work emphasized the economic importance of very small markets and made a new, more marginalist form of economic “institutionalism” acceptable within mainstream economics. A Coasean market is an association of persons with competing claims on a legal entitlement that can be traded....

Ronald Coase merged two traditions in economics, marginalism and institutionalism. Neoclassical economics in the 1930s was characterized by an abstract conception of marginalism and frictionless resource movement. Marginal analysis did not seek to uncover the source of individual human...

Ronald Coase (1910-2013), who sadly died at the remarkable age of 102, made significant contributions to economics based on common sense and the detailed study of his topics. Coase was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991 “for his discovery and clarification of the significance...

This brief essay sketches the ways in which four leading economic thinkers (Knight, Coase, Posner and Sunstein) have dealt with a vexing tension in the relations of economics to law, the state, and the social. The tension arises as microeconomists address (or fail to address) the relations of...

El referente teórico al que se nos ha acostumbrado mirar, cuando pretendemos establecer algún tipo de análisis sobre el desarrollo, ha sido aquel que pretende valorar el nivel de garantías de condiciones materiales de las cuales dispone inmediata o potencialmente un país.Bajo esta lógica,...