Ronald H. Coase's Birth Card: The 2 of Hearts

In the record

Ronald Harry Coase (29 December 1910 – 2 September 2013) was a British economist and author. The birth-card coordinate for December 29 is the 2 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1991 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1991 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy

The 2 of Hearts coordinate

Ronald H. Coase's birthday maps to the 2 of Hearts (The Loving Partner). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Ronald H. Coase. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You keep your needs and theirs in the same conversation, and you let disagreement stay on the table.

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Ronald H. Coase in the public record

Coase was educated at the London School of Economics, where he was a member of the faculty until 1951. He was the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School, where he arrived in 1964 and remained for the rest of his life. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991. Coase believed economists should study real-world wealth creation, in the manner of Adam Smith, stating, "It is suicidal for the field to slide into a hard science of choice, ignoring the influences of society, history, culture, and politics on the working of the economy." He believed economic study should reduce emphasis on price theory or theoretical markets and instead focus on real markets. He established the case for the corporation as a means to pay the costs of operating a marketplace. Coase is best known for two articles: "The Nature of the Firm" (1937), which introduces the concept of transaction costs to explain the nature and limits of firms; and "The Problem of Social Cost" (1960), which suggests that well-defined property rights could overcome the problems of externalities if it were not for transaction costs (see Coase theorem). Additionally, Coase's transaction costs approach has been influential in modern organizational economics, where it was re-introduced by Oliver E.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ronald Coase (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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Original thinking and idea generation

Ronald Harry Coase (29 December 1910 – 2 September 2013) was a British economist and author.

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Other laureates with this card

• Bruce A. Beutler — 2011 Physiology or Medicine

FAQ

What is Ronald H. Coase's birth card?

The 2 of Hearts. December 29 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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