Property Rights ARE Human Rights

Posted: March 14, 2012 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Property Rights, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

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Property Rights ARE Human Rights

The Secret Document That Transformed China

Posted: January 22, 2012 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Property Rights, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

http://m.npr.org/story/145360447?url=/blogs/money/2012/01/20/145360447/the-secret-document-that-transformed-china

Exchange, Specialization, and Property as a Discovery Process

Posted: May 5, 2011 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Division of Labor, Property Rights | Leave a comment »

http://hope.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/43/2/317?etoc

PRA Releases 2011 International Property Rights Index: U.S. Falls Behind in Rankings

Posted: March 23, 2011 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Institutions, Property Rights | Leave a comment »

http://propertyrightsalliance.org/pra-releases-international-property-rights-index-a2960

Ugandan mud entrepreneurs and property rights

Posted: March 9, 2011 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Property Rights, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

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Ugandan mud entrepreneurs and property rights

The Power of Property Rights

Posted: March 4, 2011 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Property Rights | Leave a comment »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnjPFZV8Wqo

Property Rights Institutions and Firm Performance: A Cross-Country Analysis

Posted: February 25, 2011 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Property Rights | Leave a comment »

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VC6-51BDT0D-1&_user=10&_coverDate=04/30/2011&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=31376c4b5708730d44bb9e388ca366db&searchtype=a

The Conquest of the United States by Militant Islam

Posted: December 2, 2010 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Property Rights, Religion | Leave a comment »

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/pursuit-of-happiness/the-conquest-of-the-united-states-by-militant-islam/

PERC on FOX: Giving Thanks to Property Rights

Posted: November 30, 2010 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Property Rights, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

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PERC on FOX: Giving Thanks to Property Rights

Enforcement and Compliance in Lima’s Street Markets The Origins and Consequences of Policy Incoherence toward Informal Traders

Posted: March 27, 2010 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Endogenous Rules, Property Rights, Regulation, Special Interest Groups | Leave a comment »

“Abstract

Almost twenty years have passed since researchers from the Institute for Liberty and

Democracy in Peru showed how ‘bad laws’ impose disproportionate costs on those who

choose formality. Although a multitude of conflicting regulations still precludes

effective governance of informal trade in Lima, this paper argues that the sources of

those conflicts are more diverse – though perhaps more tractable – than they might have

been twenty years ago. Specifically, the paper identifies three sources of policy

incoherence in Lima that contribute to persistent clashes between informal workers and

policy makers: (1) the lack of definitional clarity in national and metropolitan-level

legislation; (2) the absence of reliable mechanisms designed to resolve those

definitional contradictions; and (3) a resulting lack of policy continuity over time within

individual municipal administrations.”

http://www.wider.unu.edu/stc/repec/pdfs/rp2005/rp2005-16.pdf

Bostwana – A Diamond in the Rough

Posted: March 26, 2010 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Development Economics, Economic Freedom, Property Rights | Leave a comment »

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/botswana-a-diamond-in-the-rough/

HT: Dustin Anderson

Quality and the Commons: The Surf Gangs of California

Posted: February 24, 2010 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Anarchy, Endogenous Rules, Property Rights | Leave a comment »

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/605293

Snow and Property Rights

Posted: February 15, 2010 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Endogenous Rules, Property Rights | Leave a comment »

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/14/836835/-How-Blizzards-Create-Private-Property

HT: http://ewot.typepad.com/the_economic_way_of_think/2010/02/more-on-snow-and-property.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/PYsx+(The+Economic+Way+of+Thinking)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Tigers and Endangered Species

Posted: February 14, 2010 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Endangered Species, Environment, Property Rights | Leave a comment »

http://ewot.typepad.com/the_economic_way_of_think/2010/02/lets-open-the-border-to-tigers-too.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/PYsx+(The+Economic+Way+of+Thinking)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Snow Storms and Privately Enforced Property Rights

Posted: February 11, 2010 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | Filed under: Anarchy, Endogenous Rules, Property Rights | Leave a comment »

http://volokh.com/2010/02/11/of-snowstorms-and-privately-enforced-property-rights/

Quality and the Commons: The Surf Gangs of California

Posted: January 20, 2010 | Author: Daniel J. Smith | 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