tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post328194840002986415..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: A Serious Misreading of CoaseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-54894010259098816812017-10-30T17:49:59.846-04:002017-10-30T17:49:59.846-04:00Eddie: There's a burgeoning literature in the ...Eddie: There's a burgeoning literature in the decline of competition and its role in increasing the profit share; you may know it better than I do. I've dipped in here and there, and I haven't seen any application of Coase. As for high tech, I haven't looked at this at all, but I suspect you would find more references there to transaction costs.<br /><br />Over at Naked Capitalism, where the OP was reposted, I recommended the work of Eileen Appelbaum. Her recent article, "“Domestic Outsourcing, Rent Seeking, and Increasing Inequality” in the Review of Radical Political Economics is paywalled, but she has a different version, “What’s Behind the Increase in Inequality?” up at the Center for Economics and Policy Research (CEPR) website. Coasian it ain't, however.Peter Dormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093399591393648071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-25018440310256949352017-10-30T16:24:21.268-04:002017-10-30T16:24:21.268-04:00Is there a good (preferably recent) analysis of th...Is there a good (preferably recent) analysis of the recent increase in monopolization from this Coasian/institutionalist perspective? Also, is there such analysis for the evolution of high tech (mostly "Silicon Valley"-type) firms and whether they face new/different cost-benefit analyses relative to older firms? Eddienoreply@blogger.com