What is Ronald Coase?
{{nobelprize|Economics}} {{Infobox economist | name = Ronald Coase | school_tradition = [[New institutional economics|New Institutional Economics]] | image = Coase Smiling.jpg | image_size = | caption = Coase in Chicago in September 2009 | alt = Coase looking to the camera and smiling, wearing a suit and tie | birth_date = {{Birth date|1910|12|29|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Willesden]], [[Middlesex]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|09|02|1910|12|29|df=y}} | death_place = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], [[United States]] | nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]] | institution = [[University at Buffalo, The State University of New York|University at Buffalo]]<br />[[University of Virginia]]<br />[[University of Chicago]] | field = [[Law and economics]] | alma_mater = [[London School of Economics]] | contributions = [[Coase Theorem]]<br>Analysis of [[transaction cost]]s <br> [[Coase conjecture]] | awards = [[Nobel Prize in Economics]] (1991) | signature = <!-- file name only --> | repec_prefix = e | repec_id = pco40 }} '''Ronald Harry Coase''' (29 December 1910 &ndash; 2 September 2013) was a [[British people|British]] economist. He was a Professor of Economics at the [[University of Chicago]] Law School. Coase won the [[Nobel Prize in Economics]] in 1991. ==Early life== '''Ronald Harry Coase''' was born in [[Willesden]], [[Middlesex]], on 29 December 1910. As a child, Coase had a weakness in his [[legs]], which is why he had to wear [[Brace (orthopaedic)|leg-irons]]. ===Education=== Due to this problem, he attended the school for physical defectives. At the age of 12, he was able to enter at the [[Kilburn]] [[Grammar School]] on scholarship. Coase attended the [[London School of Economics]], where he received a bachelor of commerce degree in 1932. ==Career== After studying with the [[University of London External Programme]] in