Thinking about Ronald Coase, economists generally refer to transaction and social costs, to the importance of property rights and institutions or to the Coase-theorem. Examine his work more closely, a common feature takes shape behind these ideas, the public utilities. The constant and detailed...

My intention was to add my own research to the history of the field of economic research at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in the period of '50s and '60s. However, the collected material gradually revealed several aspects of István Friss' efforts to try...

Thinking about Ronald Coase, economists generally refer to transaction and social costs, to the importance of property rights and institutions or to the Coase-theorem. Examine his work more closely, a common feature takes shape behind these ideas, the public utilities. The constant and detailed...

My intention was to add my own research to the history of the field of economic research at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in the period of '50s and '60s. However, the collected material gradually revealed several aspects of István Friss' efforts to try...