Keynes and Coase
挖掘罗纳德·科斯在实证经济学方法论上的被忽视的贡献,并指出他与约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯之间出人意料的方法论亲和性,这对理解经济学基础有启发。
Ronald Coase has written provocatively on the methodology of positive economics, but this aspect of his work is not well known or much attended to, and to the extent it is noticed, it is regarded by most modern economists as eccentric, as it involves a rejection of rational choice theory. The effort in this paper is to rescue his methodological writings from obscurity and note the hitherto unremarked, and paradoxical, methodological affinity between him and John Maynard Keynes, whose unmodern approach to economics is enjoying renewed respect in the wake of the global economic crisis that began in 2008.