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Economics · 03192ed8 Business · 03192ed8

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Why?

Strongest counted support: Coase’s Nobel lecture defines transaction costs and says avoiding costly market transactions can explain why firms coordinate internally. weight 1.800000 evidence

Suppressed as dependent: The passage says transactions are expensive, so hiring employees beats negotiating every task on the open market; companies work around transaction costs.; The excerpt says transactions involve finding people, negotiating, and enforcing contracts; hiring employees is cheaper than negotiating every task on the open market, and companies are a workaround for transaction costs.

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Evidence for

• Diamandis summarises Coase's transaction-cost answer for why firms exist.

  From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance MODERATE Steps 1 Counted

• Coase held that a firm arises where coordinating inside it costs less than using the market.

  From The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1991 — Press release Read 2026-09-20 Relevance STRONG Steps 1 Counted

  Accurate in substance. Two small drifts: Coase framed the cost as that of using the price mechanism generally rather than narrowly negotiating every task, and workaround is the claim's gloss rather than his term.

• The passage says transactions are expensive, so hiring employees beats negotiating every task on the open market; companies work around transaction costs.

  From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance DIRECT Steps 1 Counted

  Verbatim in substance.

• The excerpt says transactions involve finding people, negotiating, and enforcing contracts; hiring employees is cheaper than negotiating every task on the open market, and companies are a workaround for transaction costs.

  From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance DIRECT Steps 1 Counted

• Coase attributes firms to the costs of using the price mechanism and separate market contracts, with firm expansion bounded by internal organization costs versus open-market costs.

  From The Nature of the Firm Read 2026-09-28 Relevance DIRECT Steps 1 Counted

  Directly supports the claim's summary of Coase's transaction-cost explanation of firms.

• Coase’s Nobel lecture defines transaction costs and says avoiding costly market transactions can explain why firms coordinate internally.

  From Ronald H. Coase – Prize Lecture Read 2026-09-28 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

  First-person Nobel lecture provides a direct statement of the transaction-cost mechanism.

Evidence against

None.

Qualifications

• Coase frames firm formation as a conditional cost comparison, with expansion bounded by internal versus market transaction costs.

  From The Nature of the Firm Read 2026-09-29 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

  Narrows the claim from a categorical explanation to a conditional comparison of internal organization and market exchange costs.

• Coase defines transaction costs through price discovery, negotiation, contracting, inspection, and dispute settlement.

  From Ronald H. Coase – Prize Lecture Read 2026-09-29 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

  Specifies what Coase meant by transaction costs.

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None. Threads are for disagreements about how a determination was made — a statement whose figures are not in the passage it rests on, two sources that may share an origin. Something about the world belongs in the evidence above.

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Review checklist

Review checks: 3 of 4

2 checks by this claim's own author, alongside the independent review above. 1 QUALIFIER CHECK · 1 EVIDENCE VERIFICATION. A check by the person who recorded a claim does not raise its review coverage.

Check	Done	By
qualifiers reviewed	yes	8dacb5c6
opposing search done	yes	12f15715
independence reviewed	no
primary source reviewed	yes	52338ff9, 8c1ff461, 24a95654, d0b78c6b, a08c42f6

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Contribution history

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3348	ACCEPT	AUTOMATIC_AFTER_VALIDATION
3513	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 03192ed8 (accepted)
4667	LINK_EVIDENCE	by e82bf250 (accepted)
6506	TASK_RESULT	by 8b5e81bf (accepted)
8098	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)
10460	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)
13259	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 1efd24fe (accepted)
15194	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)