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Commons, Coase, and the Unchanging Nature of the Social Provisioning Process

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  • David B. Schweikhardt
  • Eric Scorsone
  • Mary Doidge

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We compare the analytical approach of John R. Common and Ronald H. Coase to institutional analysis and social provisioning. In particular, we examine their similarities in (i) the definition and role of institutions in the economy, (ii) the allocative (social provisioning) role of institutions in the economy, and (iii) the inescapable and unchanging role of institutions in shaping the social provisioning process. We contend that Commons and Coase had more in common than did Coase and many of his followers in the “new institutional economics.” In particular, the two had strong similarities in both (a) their insights into the nature of institutions in the legal-economic nexus that is the foundation of the economy and (b) their methods for conducting economics research. Because this role of institutional evolution is, as Warren Samuels noted, an inescapable and unchanging part of an economy’s social provisioning process, it will remain an integral part of any such work in the future, regardless of the “school of analysis” or methodological approach.

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  • David B. Schweikhardt & Eric Scorsone & Mary Doidge, 2015. "Commons, Coase, and the Unchanging Nature of the Social Provisioning Process," Journal of Economic Issues, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(2), pages 459-466, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:jeciss:v:49:y:2015:i:2:p:459-466
    DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2015.1042779
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