According to the famous "Coase Theorem", market forces, under given conditions, will automatically, without any external intervention, bring about an efficient allocation of resources. These conditions, necessary for the smooth operation of the "invisible hand" which leads to efficiency, are...

Ronald Coase left an impressive legacy, but that legacy is not complete because the work he is most known for, The Coase Theorem, is largely misunderstood. This article explains The Coase Theorem and Coase's larger work in terms understandable to non-economists and even non-lawyers

This paper studies two cases designed by Coase, analyses the effects of legal rules of external damage liability on the costs and resource allocation of the parties at issue, and demonstrates that the Coase Theorem is not tenable even if all its assumptions or conditions hold. The role of...

This paper proposes an extension of the Coase theorem to explain how political systems and jurisdictions change. This model suggests that it is the relative imposition of transaction cost over different modes of jurisdictional change as well as wealth effects that enable or prevent variously...

This paper reproduces Lerner's (1936) result to reconcile different understanding about tax incidence. It proves that a tax or tariff does not shift any demand, supply or offer curve. It disproves the traditional tax incidence model and the Coase theorem. This paper also corrects Lerner's...