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Thus far this past week, we have attempted to trace the intellectual origins of Ronald Coase’s counter-intuitive idea of reciprocal harms to his undergraduate years at the London School of Economics (see here and here), but as I asked at … Continue reading →

In my previous two posts (see here and here), we attempted to trace the intellectual origins of Ronald Coase’s reciprocal-harm axiom to Wesley Hohfeld’s theory of legal relations and to the “LSE tradition in cost theory” developed by Lionel Robbins … Continue reading →

Picking up where we last left off, I had identified another possible source of Ronald Coase’s counter-intuitive reciprocal-harm model at the end of my previous post: what economists and historians of economic thought call the “LSE tradition in cost theory,” … Continue reading →

The first time Ronald Coase uses the word “reciprocal” to describe the problem of harmful effects is in his 1959 FCC paper (Coase 1959), but this observation begs the question, what is the source of Coase’s reciprocal-harm model? Did Coase … Continue reading →

I have long been fascinated by the English economist Ronald Coase’s insight that harms are always a “reciprocal” or jointly-caused problem–so much so that I wrote a paper at the end of last year titled “Coase’s fable” in which I … Continue reading →

On this day (28 September) in 1821, Juan José Espinosa de los Monteros, secretary of Mexico’s newly-created “Provisional Governmental Board” (the first governing body of independent Mexico that administered the country from 28 September 1821 until 24 February 1822), drafts … Continue reading →

Before there was Bad Bunny, there was Tego Calderón!

What is the optimal number of seats in the United States Congress? On 25 September 1789, the Congress proposed twelve amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Ten of these amendments–the so-called “Bill of Rights“–were subsequently ratified by the requisite number of … Continue reading →