享年次高的诺贝尔奖得主——新制度经济学大师罗纳德·科斯

1991年诺贝尔经济学奖得主、英国和美国(双重国籍)经济学家和法学家罗纳德·科斯是交易成本理论、科斯定理和科斯猜想的首创者,法律经济学和新制度经济学的开山鼻祖,产权理论和产权经济学的奠基人,他开启了产权理论、法律经济学和新制度经济学三个领域的研究方向。科斯是国际经济学界的泰斗级大师和巨匠,他在阐述经济组织产生的原理、交易成本分析以及推动法学、经济史和组织理论的发展方面作出重要贡献,发展了新古典经济学,开创了现代企业理论。科斯一生都关切和热爱中国,一直密切关注着中国的经济改革,其经济理论和深邃思想对中国的经济改革影响巨大而深远。

The Nobel Prize Winner with Second Longest Lifespan. the New Institutional Ecomics Master Ronald Coase

Ronald Coase, the economist and jurist of Britain and America, the winner of the prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel 1991, is the initiator of the transaction costs theory, the Coase theorem, and the Coase conjecture; the pioneer of economics of law and new institutional economics; the founder of property rights theory and property rights economics. His researches open up three new horizons for the studies of property rights theory, the economics of law, and the new institutional economics. By the contribution to the clarification on economic organizations emerging, the analysis of the transaction costs and the promotion to law and the economic history as well as the organization theory developments, and by developing the new classic eco- nomics and initiating the theory of the modem firm, Coase earns himself the highest reputation worldwide. Furthermore, Coase concerns China and the Chinese economic reforms throughout his fife. His theories and the deep thoughts that have exerted influ- ences on the Chinese economic reforms, remain great and long.