英国经济学家、芝加哥大学教授和诺贝尔经济学奖获得者罗纳德·哈利·科斯于2013年9月2日逝世。科斯是20世纪最具独立性和原创性的思想家之一。他在企业和产权方面的开拓性工作彻底改变了我们对于经济运行方式的看法。科斯关于交易成本和生产结构的洞见是半个世纪以来经济学里最成功的两个新兴领域――法经济学和新制度经济学的起源。同时,科斯又是一个坚定的改革者和现代经济学的坦率批评者。他长期以来一直批判主流经济学过于形式主义、僵化和与现实世界脱离。 On September 2, 2013, the British economist, professor at the University of Chicago and Nobel laureate in economics, Ronald Halle Coase, died. Coase was one of the most independent and original thinkers of the 20th century. His pioneering work on business and property rights has revolutionized our perception of the way the economy operates. Coase’s insights on transaction costs and the structure of production are two of the most successful emerging areas of economics in half a century - the origins of law and economics and new institutional economics. At the same time, Coase is a staunch reformer and a straightforward critic of modern economics. He has long criticized mainstream economics for being too formalistic, rigid and divorced from the real world.