London School of Economics (LSE) from Edwin Cannan and Arnold Plant. The main lesson Coase taught us and insisted upon was … that economics should not be too ‘abstract' and should not rely on a priori categories. He pleaded for more realism in … economics, for a form of ‘political economy': economists should use theory to generalise what facts tell us rather than trying …

As a student at the London School of Economics (LSE), Ronald Coase posed a seemingly naïve question that would, in time …, fundamentally change the face of economics and earn him the Nobel Prize: ‘Why do firms exist?' The import of this simple question … Cost Economics and much of organizational economics more generally. Much has been written of Coase's days as a student at …