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Ronald Coase, the economist who explained whyfirms exist, died on September 2nd, aged 102 罗纳德科斯，著名经济学家，于9月2日逝世，享年102岁。他向世人阐明了企业存在原因。 I HAVE made no innovations in high theory, was how Ronald Coase modestly summed uphis life s work. 罗纳德科斯如是总结他一生的事业：在高层理论研究中，我并没有创新。 My contribution to economics has been to urge the inclusionof features of the economicsystem so obvious thatthey have tended to be overlooked. 我对经济领域的贡献在于，将甄选经济指标这一步骤引入人们视野，而之前，人们对此并不重视。 Attention to the overlooked helped Mr Coase transform both law and economics. 而正是他对这一被忽视的步骤的注意使得他改变了法律与经济。 Born in the London suburb ofWillesden in 1910 to working-class parents, 1910年，罗纳德科斯出生在伦敦威尔斯登的一个工人家庭， Mr Coase had an academic temperament and an interest in science but lacked a taste formathematics, a flaw that might have kept him out of economics in later decades. 他很有学术天赋，对于科学也很有兴趣，遗憾的是他缺少对数学的尝试，也许这就是使得他在接下来的十年中无缘经济的原因。 | 
