Assignment of land rights affects equity and efficiency, determining among other things
households' ability to generate subsistence and income, their social and economic status …

In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected,
success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of …

37 Setembro de 2001 CONJUNTURA ECON ÔMICA em sua maioria–da Rússia ao Peru,
passando pelas Filipinas–, são proprietárias de bens, alugam bens, tomam empréstimos …

Designed specifically for economics students, The Economic Approach to Law, 2nd Edition,
provides an introductory treatment of law and economics, revealing how economic …

Economists have shown that first possession might cause rent dissipation from racing or
overexploitation. In this study, I develop models that show how dissipation can be avoided …

The typical method of acquiring a property right involves transfer from a previous owner. But
sooner or later, that chain of transfers traces back to the beginning. That is why we have a …

Legal reforms that improve the security of private property rights to land have characteristics
of a public good with dispersed benefits. However, nothing ensures that the state will …

Students of American Indian law cannot-and should not-escape from reading the three
famous opinions of Chief Justice John Marshall that expounded for the first time in the halls …

En 1986, el economista peruano Hernando de Soto adquiere notoriedad por la publicación
del “El Otro Sendero”, cuya idea central es la reivindicación de la informalidad como …

I examine the assignment of private property rights during the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries to five natural resources on federal lands in the Far West. Assigning property rights …