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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459969203321

Autore

Lai Lawrence Wai-chung

Titolo

The ideas of Ronald H. Coase : market failure and planning by contract for sustainable development / / Lawrence W.C. Lai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-10430-X

9786613104304

1-136-82048-5

0-203-83017-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; ; 125

Disciplina

330/.092

338.927092

Soggetti

Economics

Sustainable development

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Intellectual and policy context -- pt. 2. Coase and market failure -- pt. 3. Coase theorom applied and planning by contract -- pt. 4. Concluding thoughts.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first work dedicated to the key ideas of Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase on pollution and public goods with sustainable development in mind from the perspective of an economist-town planner. The seminal contributions of Ronald Coase, foretold in the form of the Coase Theorem by another Nobel laureate, George Stigler, have been much analyzed and often misinterpreted by friends and foes alike. In this book, Lawrence Lai attempts to revisit Coase's seminal works and bring to the fore their importance in economic and urban planning policy analysis. Coase's comparative institutional