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Economic rights and environmental wrongs : property rights for the common good

Devlin, Rose Anne - 1998

The crisis of environmental degradation has createcharemd an immense volume of literature which focuses on controlling environmental problems. Economic Rights and Environmental Wrongs goes one step further to extend and complement the current debates

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Property rights and the limits of democracy

Rowley, Charles K. (ed.) - 1993

Property rights lie at the heart of the economic success of any economy and the extent to which its citizens enjoy economic freedom. At a time when Eastern Europe is breaking free from the yoke of collectivist-socialist ideas, this book presents essays by four political economists evaluating a...

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Austrian law and economics

Rizzo, Mario J. - 2011

The use of economics to study law was pioneered by the Austrian School of Economics. The nineteenth century founders of the school believed that economics could contribute to understanding the spontaneous development of common law as well as the nature of legal rights. For this insightful...

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The economic foundations of property rights : selected readings

Pejovich, Svetozar (ed.) - 1997

, supply and efficient allocation of scarce resources between individuals. The Economic Foundations of Property Rights is an …, the effects of property rights on the allocation of resources and the link between alternative property rights and the …

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Property rights, consumption and the market process

Andersson, David E. - 2008

Property Rights, Consumption and the Market Process extends property rights theory in new and exciting directions by combining complementary insights from Austrian, institutional and evolutionary economics. Mainstream economics tends to analyse property rights within a static equilibrium...

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The economics of modern business enterprise

Ricketts, Martin (contributor) - 2008

Martin Ricketts, a leading scholar in this field, has selected the seminal papers from a variety of traditions that illustrate the evolution of thinking on 'the firm' over a considerable period of time. The firm as a vehicle for entrepreneurial initiative and the exercise of business judgement...

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Developments in the economics of privatization and regulation

Parker, David (contributor); Crew, Michael A. (contributor) - 2008

Regulatory economics has become increasingly important over the last quarter of a century, in part as a result of the wave of privatization, starting in the UK, which made the regulation of monopoly of much greater interest. The discipline has also become more rigorous, increasingly employing...

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Ecological economics of the oceans and coasts

Patterson, M. G. (ed.); Glavovic, Bruce Christopher (ed.) - 2008

This timely book offers a fresh view on how oceans and coasts are, and should be, managed. The urgency of this issue is increasingly being recognized, as critical limits to the economic exploitation of our oceans and coasts are reached. The authors argue that ecological economics is in a unique...

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Competition in the provision of local public goods : single function jurisdictions and individual choice

Reifschneider, Alexandra Petermann - 2006

The central purpose of this book is to analyse the optimal allocation of local public goods or services (for example … garbage collection, police, fire brigades and medical services) in large urban agglomerations and the allocation consequences … jurisdictions and the impact this probable increase in competition may have on the achievement of the optimal allocation of local …

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Path dependence and lock-in

Liebowitz, Stan J. - 2014

Since their first emergence in the work of Paul David thirty years ago, the dual issues of Path Dependence and Lock-In have become critically important subjects in the fields of economics, sociology, and business strategy. Theoretical and public policy debates on these issues have arisen,...

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