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Harold Demsetz, né le 31 mai 1930 à Chicago, est un professeur émérite d'économie à l'université de Californie à Los Angeles .

Demsetz comprend une courte autobiographie.[incompréhensible]Il a grandi dans le West Side de Chicago, le petit-fils des immigrants d'Europe centrale et orientale[style à revoir]. Il a étudié l'ingénierie, la foresterie[style à revoir] et la philosophie dans quatre universités. Alors qu'il était étudiant diplômé, il a publié un article dans Econometrica et le Journal of Political Economy.

Demsetz a enseigné à l'université du Michigan , à l'UCLA et à la Graduate School of Business à l'université de Chicago . En 1971, il retourna définitivement au département d'économie de l'UCLA, qu'il présida entre 1978 et 1980. Il a été affilié au Centre for Naval Analyses et à l'Institution Hoover.

Demsetz est un membre de l'Académie américaine des arts et des sciences, un directeur de la Société Mont Pelerin, et un ancien président de l'Association de l'économie occidentale.

✵ 31. mai 1930 – 4. janvier 2019
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“Property rights develop to internalize externalities when the gains of internalization become larger than the cost of internalization. Increased internalization, in the main, results from changes in economic values, changes which stem from the development of new technology and the opening of new markets, changes to which old property rights are poorly attuned [G]iven a community's tastes… [for private versus state ownership], the emergence of new private or state-owned property rights will be in response to changes in technology and relative prices.”

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Harold Demsetz, (1967). "Toward a Theory of Property Rights." American Economic Review 57 (May, No. 2): 347-359. p. 350, as cited in Eggertsson (1990; 250)

“The legal substructure is private; the use of payments to influence the behavior of others is neither prohibited nor frowned upon. But the ' frictions" that perfect decentralization assumes away, must be lived with in laissez-faire.”

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Source: Economic, Political, and Legal Dimensions of Competition. 1980, p. 21

“A relevant notion of efficiency must refer to scarcity and people as they are, not as they could be.”

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Cited in: Eggertsson (1990; 22)
"Information and Efficiency: Another Viewpoint." (1969)

“Business firms, in which controlled cooperation takes place, are the first important implication of costly transactions. The laissez-faire filtering process, using the profit test, selects some of these business organizations for survival and rejects others.”

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Source: Economic, Political, and Legal Dimensions of Competition. 1980, p. 25

“The view that now pervades much public policy economics implicitly presents the relevant choice as between an ideal norm and an existing "imperfect" institutional arrangement. This nirvana approach differs considerably from a comparative institution approach in which the relevant choice is between alternative real institutional arrangements.”

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Cited in: Eggertsson (1990; 22)
"Information and Efficiency: Another Viewpoint." (1969)

“The mark of a capitalistic society is that resources are owned and allocated by such nongovernmental organizations as firms, households, and markets. Resource owners increase productivity through cooperative specialization and this leads to the demand for economic organizations which facilitate cooperation. When a lumber mill employs a cabinetmaker, cooperation between specialists is achieved within a firm, and when a cabinetmaker purchases wood from a lumberman, the cooperation takes place across markets (or between firms). Two important problems face a theory of economic organization—to explain the conditions that determine whether the gains from specialization and cooperative production can better be obtained within an organization like the firm, or across markets, and to explain the structure of the organization.”

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Source: Production, information costs, and economic organization. 1972, p. 777, Lead paragraph

“Modern analysis has yet to describe inefficiency in a world where indivisibilities are present and knowledge is costly to produce.”

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Source: "Information and Efficiency: Another Viewpoint." (1969), p. 19; cited in: Eggertsson (1990; 23)

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