I was looking through The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Treaties. 2004. Suzanne Scotchmer. Journal of Law, Economics and Organizations 20:415-437. curtesy of the PDF available on her web page when I came to the following section which I wished to copy and paste into my notes:
The Organization of Economic Cooperation [...]
He is supposed to determine whether Britain is still functioning on the basis of whether or not the Today programme is still broadcasting. If it isn’t he has to retrieve from his safe the PM’s letter instructing him to: 1. Put himself under the command of the USA, if it is still there. 2. [...]
Stare into the fridge in a zen-like manner and contemplate what you might possibly tolerate.
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The world of zero transaction costs has often been described as a Coasian world. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is the world of modern economic theory, one which I was hoping to persuade economists to leave.
Ronald Coase, The Firm, The Market and The Law (Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1988), p. 174.
This is a point I often make to people, especially those doing Law and Economics who seem fixated on his 1960 JLE paper and the ‘Coase Theorem’ (assignment of property rights does not matter as bargaining will ensure the efficient outcome). The irony for anyone who reads the actual article is that that particular point is made briefly at the start and is there only to lead in to the main question: how should we set things up when bargaining is not possible.
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Dr. Rufus Pollock is co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge.
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