Settlement, government policy, and property rights in the Brazilian Amazon : introduction and implications for frontiers elsewhere in the world -- A history of land policy in Brazil : the assignment of property rights to land and land reform -- Current land policies : the politics and economics...

This paper examines the economics of large scale institutional change by studying the adoption of the land demarcation practices within the British Empire during the 17th through 19th Centuries. The advantages of systematic, coordinated demarcation, such as with the rectangular survey, relative...