This chapter explores the link between entrepreneurship and the larger project of reservation land tenure reform. Many scholars draw a connection between land-tenure design and economic development generally. This chapter provides a more detailed analysis of current reservation land tenure...

A persistent theme in the literature on property rights suggests that perfect state protection of private property rights would provide owners with an optimal incentive to invest in their assets. In this Essay, we challenge this view. Specifically, we argue that in many instances, perfect state...

This study explores the manner in which the availability of natural resources wealth, foreign aid or corruption potential constrains institutional improvements. By providing a framework, where rulers, bureaucracy and the citizens act endogenously, we show that the rents from these resources can...

Scholars such as Friedrich Hayek and Aleksander Peczenik have criticized legal positivism for undermining constitutionalism and the rule of law, an implication of which is weakened private property rights. This conclusion is far from evident. First, I contend that legal positivism is compatible...

Unlike leaders and scholars in the rest of the world, at least one Chinese leader and a Chinese scholar have identified the need to establish economic democracy as basis for introducing political democracy. Economic democracy also increases survival for the many by reducing environmental...

This paper is about social relations in customary lands for the matrilineal uxorilocal culture of the Lomwe, Nyanja and Yao tribes in Southern Malawi. The study was carried out in the districts of Chiradzulu and Phalombe. Qualitative methods were used to examine local histories and practices to...

Since the record-breaking sale of ‘Everydays: The First 5000 Days’ by Mike Winkelmann (better known as Beeple) most people in the art market know what an NFT (non-fungible token) is and that there is significant potential to make money with this ‘artistic movement’. ‘Everydays’...

Our article presents an index of institutional complementarity for 27 postcommunist economies, and evaluates a key claim of the Varieties of Capitalism paradigm. The empirical novelty of the index lies in its integration of informal institutions as well as its combination of macro-level and...

The modern state has monopolized the legitimate use of force. This concept is twofold. First, the state is empowered with enforcement rights; second, the rights of the individuals are restricted. In a simple model of property rights with appropriation and defense activity, we show that a...

The Canadian government has a policy of searching laptop computers at airports and other border crossings. It is considered an outrageous policy by those who have been subjected to this gross invasion of privacy, and it has drawn some press attention. The Canadian courts have yet to rule on the...