If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldnโt go and look at horses. Theyโd sit in their studies and say to themselves, "what would I do if I were a horse?"
Ronald CoaseIn my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.
Ronald CoaseExisting economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world.
Ronald CoaseData can't speak for itself; it's up to you to give it a voice. Try to speak truthfully.
Ronald CoaseA firm, therefore, consists of the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an entrepreneur... As a firm gets larger, there may be decreasing returns to the entrepreneur function, that is, the costs of organising additional transactions within the firm may rise.
Ronald Coase