Coase, the Rules of the Game, and the Costs of Perfection (with Daisy Christodoulou)

Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem, and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today's January sixth, twenty twenty five, and I want to remind readers that voting for your favorite episodes of twenty twenty four closes on February ninth, so please go to econalk.org. To vote. My guest today is Daisy Christadulu. She is the director of education

And no more marking. She has a sub stack with that same name, no more marking. And she has written three books on education. Her latest book, which is our topic for today, is I can't stop thinking about var. Far this case is the video assistant referee technology used in football, what Americans call soccer.

But we'll call football throughout this conversation. And VAR was Added to the game to improve decisions made by referees about fouls, offsides, other matters. And this book that you've written, Daisy, is on the surface about football, but it's really about much more than that. It's about something much deeper.

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