In 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 CoaseOutside the firm, price movements direct production, which is co-ordinated through a series of exchange transactions on the market. Within a firm, these market transactions are eliminated and in place of the complicated market structure with exchange transactions is substituted the entrepreneur-co-ordinator, who directs production.
Ronald CoaseIf 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 CoaseRonnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it.
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