Conference: "Markets, Firms and Property Rights: A Celebration of the Research of Ronald Coase"
Date:
Friday, December 4, 2009 (All day) - Saturday, December 5, 2009 (All day)
Location:
Auditorium 
This Conference brings together a group of scholars to honor the life and research of Ronald Coase. 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Coase’s seminal paper on the Federal Communications Commission. 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of his paper on “The Problem of Social Cost,” and his 100th birthday.
The presentations on this occasion cover specific topics on which Coase’s work has exerted profound influence, including such areas as telecommunications policy, airline regulation and development, environmental economics, economic development, organization of the firm, and general discussions of the questions of transactions costs and social rationality to which he has contributed so much.
The conference web page is at http://iep.gmu.edu/CoaseConference.php.
The Conference is being organized by Richard A. Epstein of the University of Chicago, Thomas Hazlett of George Mason University, and Roger Noll and Greg Rosston of Stanford University. These papers shall be published in special issues of the Journal of Law and Economics and the Journal of Legal Studies. The Conference will be held at the University of Chicago Law School on Friday December 4 and Saturday, December 5, 2009. The public is invited.
If you wish to attend this event, please register with Marjorie Holme at mholme@uchicago.edu or 773-702-0220. You must register to attend.
The event is sponsored by the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, the Information Economy Project at George Mason University, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the China Center for Economic Research, the Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, and the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State.
Participants include:
- Lee Benham
- Xiaofang Chen
- Robert Cooter
- Harold Demsetz
- Martin K. Dimitrov
- Sebastian Galiani
- Robert Hahn
- Thomas Hazlett
- Charles Jackson
- Evan Kwerel
- Michael Levine
- Zhimin Liao
- Gary Libecap
- Claude Menard
- Thomas Merrill
- Roger Noll
- Douglass North
- David Porter
- Greg Rosston
- Steven Shavell
- Mary Shirley
- Vernon Smith
- Robert Stavins
- Gary Becker
- Richard Epstein
- William Landes
- Richard A. Posner
- Michael Schill
- Geoffrey Stone
