We explore the interrelationships between various measures of cultural distance. We first discuss measures of genetic distance, used in the recent economics literature to capture the degree of relatedness between countries. We next describe several classes of measures of lin-guistic, religious,...

Introduction : from vice to the virtue of owning private property -- Exit, or evict : re-grounding rights in need -- Bargaining demolition : when needs and desires meet -- Investing citizens : embracing desires and risks -- Affective ownership : situating rights in desires -- The property...