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Research handbook on the economics of property law / edited by Kenneth Ayotte and Henry E. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Research handbooks in law and economics.
- Research handbooks in law and economics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Real property--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Real property.
- Real property--Economic aspects--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Res omnium communes--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Res omnium communes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Pub., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Leading scholars in the field of law and economics contribute their original theoretical and empirical research to this major Handbook. Each chapter analyzes the basic architecture and important features of the institutions of property law from an economic point of view, while also providing an introduction to the issues and literature. Property rights and property systems vary along a large number of dimensions, and economics has proven very conducive to analyzing these patterns and even the nature of property itself. The contributions found here lend fresh perspectives to the current body of
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Property rights, land settlement and land conflict on frontiers: evidence from Australia, Brazil and the US; 2 Commons, anticommons, semicommons; 3 The anticommons lexicon; 4 Private property and public rights; 5 Toward an economic theory of property in information; 6 Unilateral relinquishment of property; 7 Standardization in property law; 8 Covenant lite lending, liquidity, and standardization of financial contracts; 9 The personification and property of legal entities; 10 Bankruptcy as property law
- 11 The law and economics of marital property12 Property titling and conveyancing; 13 Land demarcation systems; 14 Servitudes; 15 The economics of nuisance law; 16 Acquiring land through eminent domain: justifications, limitations, and alternatives; 17 The rest of Michelman 1967; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-97890-X
- 9786612978906
- 1-84980-897-X
- OCLC:
- 705536136
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