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Embracing at arm’s length: Ronald Coase’s uneasy relationship with the Chicago school

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  • Steven G Medema

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This paper takes up Ronald Coase’s views on the Chicago school, as found in his published and, especially, unpublished writings. Coase’s personal and professional papers, recently opened for examination in the University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library, reveal that his commentaries on the Chicago Economics Department and the Chicago school began already in the early 1960s, prior to his appointment at Chicago. These and later commentaries at once reveal a measure of kinship and significant differences of viewpoint, particularly as respects economic method. Pulling back the lens a bit further, the paper provides additional evidence for the heterogeneity of views on fundamental questions that existed even among ostensibly cornerstone members of the so-called ‘Chicago school’.

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  • Steven G Medema, 2020. "Embracing at arm’s length: Ronald Coase’s uneasy relationship with the Chicago school," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 72(4), pages 1072-1090.
  • Handle: RePEc:oup:oxecpp:v:72:y:2020:i:4:p:1072-1090.
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    1. Medema, Steven G, 2024. "Identifying a "Chicago School" of Economics: On the Origins, Diffusion, and Evolving Meanings of a Famous Brand Name," SocArXiv cbq8a, Center for Open Science.

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    JEL classification:

    • B2 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925
    • B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals
    • B4 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology
    • C00 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General - - - General
    • D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
    • D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
    • D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
    • K00 - Law and Economics - - General - - - General (including Data Sources and Description)

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