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The Problem Of Internalization Of Social Costs And The Ideas Of Ronald Coase, Enrico Baffi
The Problem Of Internalization Of Social Costs And The Ideas Of Ronald Coase, Enrico Baffi
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This work examines the influence of Coasian thought on the analysis of externalities as used by economists and legal economists. Ronald Coase, a Chicago scholar, advanced a series of criticisms of the Pigovian tax system; the theorem that bears his name is merely the best known. In his 1960 work, he sought to demonstrate that the internationalization of social costs was not always socially useful. In addition, he identified other institutional solutions to which systems can - and often do - resort. One of these solutions is to simply authorise the harmful activity without introducing mechanisms to internalise social costs. …