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Strongest counted support: Coase's original 1937 paper explicitly asks why a firm emerges at all and attributes its emergence partly to the costs of using the price mechanism. weight 1.800000 evidence

Suppressed as dependent: The excerpt says that in 1937 economist Ronald Coase asked why companies exist at all and won the Nobel Prize for this work; the name is transcript-garbled but recognizable.; The passage says economist Ronald Coase asked in 1937 why companies exist at all and won the Nobel Prize for it.

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• “In 1937 the economist Ronald Coase asked why companies exist at all, and he won a Nobel Prize for that work.” · 1 claim · 28 September 2026
• “In 1937 the economist Ronald Coase asked why companies exist at all, and he won a Nobel Prize for that work.” · 1 claim · 28 September 2026
• “Chapter 12 Coasean cluster: Coase's 1937 question and Nobel award, the inference from falling transaction costs to vanishing firms, and whether Uber's...” · 3 claims · 21 September 2026
• “In 1937 the economist Ronald Coase asked why companies exist at all, and he won a Nobel Prize for that work.” · 6 claims · 20 September 2026
• “The Navier–Stokes proof was produced by roughly 10,000 OpenAI agents working for about 88 hours.” · 28 claims · 20 September 2026

Evidence for

• Diamandis dates Coase's question to 1937 and credits him with a Nobel Prize.

  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's paper is correctly dated to 1937, though his Nobel came in 1991 for a broader body of work.

• In 1937 Ronald Coase wrote an essay on the nature of the firm.

  From Coase's Theory of the Firm Read 2026-09-21 Relevance MODERATE Steps 1 Counted

  Establishes the 1937 date and the subject. A teaching resource rather than a primary source: no authoritative page I could reach carries the title and the year in one span free of inline markup, because the article title is italicised or hyperlinked everywhere it appears.

• The passage says economist Ronald Coase asked in 1937 why companies exist at all and won the Nobel Prize for it.

  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

  'Coos' in the passage is a transcription of 'Coase'.

• The excerpt says that in 1937 economist Ronald Coase asked why companies exist at all and won the Nobel Prize for this work; the name is transcript-garbled but recognizable.

  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

• The Nobel press release says Coase's 1937 Nature of the Firm asked why firms exist and why they are of a certain size.

  From The Prize in Economics 1991 - Press release Read 2026-09-28 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

• The University of Chicago identifies the study as Coase's 1937 work and records his 1991 Nobel Prize.

  From Ronald Coase Read 2026-09-28 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

• Coase's original 1937 paper explicitly asks why a firm emerges at all and attributes its emergence partly to the costs of using the price mechanism.

  From The Nature of the Firm Read 2026-09-28 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

  Primary-text corroboration of the historical claim.

• Coase’s Nobel lecture links his 1937 firm article to the transaction-cost argument and explains that it later contributed to his Nobel recognition.

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

  First-person Nobel lecture directly covers the 1937 work and later prize connection.

Evidence against

None.

Qualifications

• Coase's 1991 prize citation covers transaction costs and property rights, spanning two separate papers.

  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

  The 1937 question and the prize are both real, but the claim implies the prize was for that paper. The citation names transaction costs and property rights, and the prize announcement treats the 1937 paper as the first stage and the 1960 paper on social cost as the second, with property rights being the later work. So the award covers a body of work rather than the single paper. Strictly it is also the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, not one of the original Nobel prizes.

• The Nobel citation names transaction costs and property rights together, not a single paper.

  From Ronald H. Coase - Facts Read 2026-09-21 Relevance STRONG Steps 1 Counted

  The claim says the prize was won for the 1937 work. The official citation names two contributions, transaction costs and property rights, and the property-rights half comes from The Problem of Social Cost in 1960, not from the 1937 paper. The award and the year are right; for that work overstates what the citation says.

• Coase's impact stems almost entirely from two articles published twenty-three years apart.

  From Ronald H. Coase, The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics Read 2026-09-21 Relevance MODERATE Steps 1 Counted

  Independent corroboration that the reputation rests on two articles rather than one. Coase was born in December 1910, so twenty-seven and twenty-three years later fit 1937 and 1960.

• The excerpt says Coase wrote a 1937 essay on the nature of the firm, but does not mention asking why firms exist or his Nobel Prize.

  From Coase's Theory of the Firm Read 2026-09-21 Relevance MODERATE Steps 0 Counted

• The Nobel citation credits transaction costs and property rights broadly, not solely the 1937 firm question.

  From The Prize in Economics 1991 – Press release Read 2026-09-28 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

  The Nobel recognition covers a broader body of work, including but not limited to the 1937 study.

Suppressed as dependent

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None.

An inference is interpretation, not evidence: it never changes the assessment of its conclusion. Each premise is a claim with its own evidence.

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Review checklist

Review checks: 4 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.

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opposing search done	yes	490975f8
independence reviewed	yes	41e9ae73
primary source reviewed	yes	99da48e2, a6fe5fdc, 9f018dba, b3f40b03

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