Resolving Problems among Neighbors in Post-Soviet Russia: Uncovering the Norms of the Pod”ezd
Posted: May 20, 2011 Filed under: Anarchy, Legal Systems, Polycentrism Leave a comment »http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-4469.2011.01236.x/abstract
The article presents findings from a qualitative study of how Russians deal with neighbors who have leaked water onto them. In the Russian context, this is neither an uncommon nor a small problem. Building on US-based studies of neighborhood relations, the article lays out three alternative strategies: avoidance, self-help, and third-party intervention. The Russian participants lived in close proximity to one another and had little opportunity for exit. The study documents a strong preference for self-help, confirming the potency of the relational distance hypothesis for Russia. In contrast to their US counterparts, the Russian participants’ lack of exit did not give rise to more intense and prolonged disputes. The findings suggest that there is a strong informal norm in favor of neighbors resolving disputes among themselves and that the residents who share common entryways (pod”ezdy) work out the parameters of acceptable behavior over time. These informal norms shape Russians’ legal consciousness.
Hayekian anarchism
Posted: May 13, 2011 Filed under: Anarchy, Hayek, Legal Systems, Polycentrism Leave a comment »Rivalry and superior dispatch: an analysis of competing courts in medieval and early modern England
Posted: May 4, 2011 Filed under: Anarchy, Legal Systems, Polycentrism Leave a comment »http://www.springerlink.com/content/w684377300430433/
Justice Denied
Posted: March 31, 2011 Filed under: Justice Department, Legal Systems, Minimum Wage Leave a comment »http://www.thebigquestions.com/2011/03/31/justice-denied/
WOE UNTO YOU, LAWYERS!
Posted: January 27, 2011 Filed under: Law, Lawyers, Legal Systems Leave a comment »http://www.usa-the-republic.com/jurisprudentia/Woe_Unto_You,_Lawyers!.pdf
Assessing the Very Limited Impact of McDonald and Heller on Gun Regulations
Posted: December 6, 2010 Filed under: Guns, Law, Lawyers, Legal Systems, Supreme Court Leave a comment »“…mere judicial recognition of the existence of a right doesn’t necessarily lead to meaningful protection for it. Such protection is particularly unlikely when a substantial part of the judiciary (most liberal judges) is hostile to the very idea that this right deserves protection at all.”
If You Brandish a Gun in Self-Defense in Kansas, You’d Best Shoot It
Posted: February 13, 2010 Filed under: Firearms, Guns, Law, Lawyers, Legal Systems Leave a comment »http://volokh.com/2010/02/12/if-you-brandish-a-gun-in-self-defense-in-kansas-youd-best-shoot-it/
Quality and the Commons: The Surf Gangs of California
Posted: January 20, 2010 Filed under: Anarchy, Commons, Endogenous Rules, Law, Legal Systems, Property Rights Leave a comment »Abstract
In open‐access settings, high‐quality resources are lucrative, yet fencing out potential entrants may be very costly. I examine the endogenous creation of property rights, focusing on the incentives that resource quality provides to close the commons. Analytical examples explore the incentives of locals to increase or decrease the strength of property rights conditional on how locals and nonlocals value the quality of the resource. The empirical analysis looks at a unique resource—surf breaks—and estimates the relationship between the exogenous quality of the resource (waves at the surf break) and local attempts to seize the common surf break. Using cross‐sectional data on 86 surf breaks along the southern California coast, this paper finds that a 10 percent increase in quality leads to a 7–17 percent increase in the strength of property rights.
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/605293
Adam Smith Quote:
Posted: January 5, 2010 Filed under: Favorite Quotes, Free markets, Law, Legal Systems, Regulation Leave a comment »“That system of laws, therefore, which is connected with the establishment of the bounty, seems to deserve no part of the praise which has been bestowed upon it…The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle,that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often incumbers its operations; though the effect of these obstructions is always more or less either to encroach upon its freedom, or to diminish its security.” Book 5, Chapter 5
Jewish and Irish Law
Posted: January 4, 2010 Filed under: Legal Systems, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Jewish and Irish Law
Boettke on Samuelson
Posted: December 14, 2009 Filed under: Institutions, Legal Systems, Methodology, Microfoundations, Rationality Leave a comment »http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2009/12/paul-samuelson.html
