The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1991
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1991 was awarded to Ronald H. Coase "for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy"
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