# Coase's Theory of the Firm "public choice economics" - what does this mean? [[Ronald Coase]] wrote "The Nature of the Firm" in 1937 Here's an [overview in Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm#Transaction_cost_theory). Yochai Benkler wrote [[Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm]]. "There needs to be an entire discipline in software design related to Coase and Computing." ???