The Coasian Floor sets the lower bound of size of project a company might undertake.

· Bits and Bobs 3/17/25
  • The Coasian Floor sets the lower bound of size of project a company might undertake.
    • This is Clay Shirky's concept.
    • The Coasian theory of the firm is that finding a price has a cost.
    • You need to create a cell membrane to create boundaries between things that need to transact, and that has a cost.
      • It's kind of like simulated annealing; everything starts off fluid, but as little bits of structure are discovered, a membrane starts developing.
      • The membrane gets stronger and more ossified to become more efficient, but at the same time less adaptable.
    • The Coasian Floor is the smallest size of project a company might undertake.
    • Software in the app paradigm has a very high Coasian floor.
      • You need to assume that a market of a given size makes sense for the fixed cost of building the software to make sense.

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