The contributions of Harold Demsetz offer key insights on how property rights and transaction costs shape economic organization. This guides our comparison of agricultural organization in two comparable regions, the Argentine Pampas and the US Midwest. In the US, land was distributed in small...

The paper explores the divergent U.S. integrationist and Chinese coexistence programs of international order. The U.S. program of international order is based on the aspiration to create a unison international order on the basis of the liberal concepts of civil rights, democracy and market...