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\"It can, I think, be assumed that the distinguishing mark of the firm is the supersession of the price mechanism\" (Coase, The Nature of the Firm, p. 389]. This quotation summarizes well a key idea in a famous paper that Ronald Coase wrote. This paper was a primary reason that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded him a Nobel prize. He was trying to identify the boundary between activities that are inside the firm adrivend activities that are outside the firm. Prior to this quotation, he had written: Outside the firm, price movements direct production, which is co-ordinated through a series of exchange transactions on the market. Within a firm, these market transactions are eliminated and in place of the complicated market structure with exchange transactions is substituted the entrepreneur-co-ordinator, who directs production (p. 388). He is pointing out that employers can direct the activities of employees without adjusting compensation much more easily than they can direct the activities of vendors or su b-contractors. Ifthe employer wants an employee to spend more time on one activity and less on another, the employer can usually simply direct an employee to reallocate its time without an explicit change in compensation. However, if the employer wants a vendor to change specifications or a sub-contractor to reallocate its time, the vendor and sub-contractor may refuse to accommodate the request unless compensation also changes. Having established a basis for distinguishing what is inside the firm and what is outside of it, Coase then asked, \"Why aren't all activities 'co-ordinated through a series of exchange transactions on the market'?\" In other words, he asked, \"Why do firms exist?\" \"The main reason that it is profitable to establish a firm would seem to be that there is a cost to using the price mechanism. The most obvious cost of 'organizing' production through the price mechanism is that of discovering what the relevant prices are. The costs of negotiating and concluding a separate contract for each exchange transaction that takes place on a market must also be taken into account\" (pp. 390-1]. When the cost of producing something internally, including the transactions costs, is less than the cost of purchasing it, including transactions costs, then the firm has reason to exist. The cost of producing something internally obviously includes the prices paid for the inputs needed to produce the thing. The cost also includes the transactions costs of producing the thing. The firm must direct the activities of the workers and monitor their activities or output. The costs of directing and monitoring activities in the firm are the transactions costs of producing the thing inside the firm. The cost of purchasing something from a vendor obviously includes the price paid the vendor. The cost also includes the transactions costs of purchasing the thing from a vendor. The firm must identify, contact, and negotiate and conclude a contract with the vendor. The firm must also monitor the vendor to ensure that the vendor is meeting the terms of the contract. The costs of identifying, contacting, negotiating and concluding a contract, and monitoring the vendor are the transactions costs of purchasing the thing from vendors. C Questions: answer in detail: 1) Are Uber drivers outside or within Uber? 2) Explain your answer using the definition Coase gives for when a transaction is within or outside of the organization