Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution
Law is a set of commands; the principles of tort or criminal law, which we shall be dealing with, are negative commands or prohibitions, on the order of "thou shalt not" do actions X, Y, or Z.[1 ] In short, certain actions are considered wrong [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Who Owns the Moon? The Case for Lunar Property Rights
The first article on the subject, "High Altitude Flight and National Sovereignty," was written by Princeton legal scholar John Cobb Cooper in 1951. Various theoretical discussions followed, with some scholars arguing that the moon had to be ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century ...
 College-level collections will find this essential.: Few books offer so succinct or specific a set of insights connecting property rights to democratic principles as in Property Rights in 21st Century America, a survey of property rights as linked to [... more]
$11.95
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Property Rights and Managerial Decisions in For-profit, ...
The author describes the property rights that exist in different organizational forms and explains how these establish incentives for managerial decision behaviour. She compares the rights, incentives, and corresponding decision behaviour in for-profit, [... more]
$90.00
eBooks |
Smoking and Property Rights
A week ago I received an email that was part of a mass mailing by an anti-smoking activist who was championing all of the new "smoke-free" legislation that is being churned out by state, local, and national governments around the world. [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Capital and Property Rights
Review of The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else , by Hernando De Soto. New York: Basic Books, 2000. ISBN 0-465-01614-6, $27.50 (hardback). Last year, my wife and I traveled to Guatemala City in ... [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Cross Burnings and Property Rights
The Supreme Court's recent 6-3 ruling that a 1952 Virginia law banning cross burning does not violate the protection of free speech under the Constitution pleased many who would like to stick it to racists and bigots, but it certainly was not a ... [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Smoking and Property Rights
Citizens in this great land were once able to enjoy a cigar or a cigarette at restaurants and bars. Over the years, however, most state governments have succumbed to anti-tobacco groups and have infringed upon the right of private establishments ... [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Public Health - Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights
The report of the Commission on intellectual property rights, innovation and public health was an attempt to gather all the stakeholders involved to analyse the relationship between intellectual property rights, innovation and public health, with a [... more]
$27.00
eBooks |
Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property Rights and ...
With real case stories, Wells and Ahmed bring to life both the hopes for and the failures of international guarantees of property rights for investors in the developing world. Their cases focus on infrastructure projects, but the lessons apply equally to [... more]
$60.00
Buy.com |
The Evolution of Resource Property Rights
This book traces the development of the standard property rights over five kinds of natural resource - inland rivers, ocean fisheries, petroleum resources, gold and base metals and forest resources - from classical times through to the 19th century. [... more]
$91.56
A1 Books |
Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property Rights and ...
With real case stories, Wells and Ahmed bring to life both the hopes for and the failures of international guarantees of property rights for investors in the developing world. Their cases focus on infrastructure projects, but the lessons apply equally to [... more]
$18.43
A1 Books |
