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Showing posts with label property rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label property rights. Show all posts
Thursday, May 10, 2018

Eric Falkenstein — The History of Individual Property Rights

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Short summary. Worth read. Eric Falkenstein is a financial economist rather than a historian but he has done his research on this. Falken...
Saturday, March 3, 2018

David Sloan Wilson — How to Construct a New Invisible Hand: A Conversation with Peter Barnes

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In a previous essay, I announced a new concept of the invisible hand to replace the old and erroneous idea that the pursuit of self-interes...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Diane Coyle — Property is – theft?

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Buying versus renting. Is buying over in the drive for rent-seeking? The Enlightened Economist Property is – theft? Diane Coyle | freelan...
Friday, February 5, 2016

Diane Coyle — Coase in theory and Coase in practice

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Diane Coyle reviews Forever Contemporary - The Economics of Ronald Coase, edited by Cento Veljanovksi. It starts with the Coase theorem: ...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

David Ellerman — PBS Making Sen$e blog: The case for employee-owned companies

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I was asked by Paul Solman, the PBS National Economics Correspondent, to write down in non-technical terms the basic argument for the labor...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Eric Schliesser — On The Right to Work in Adam Smith and The Origin Of the Harm Principle

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Quotes from J. S. Mill and Adam Smith. Digressions&Impressions On The Right to Work in Adam Smith and The Origin Of the Harm Principle...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

Josh Israel — TransCanada Is Seizing People’s Land To Build Keystone, But Conservatives Have Been Dead Silent

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“If this were a wind mill project or a solar project, Republicans would have been hair-on-fire crazy supporting the property rights of farm...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Randy Wray — Join the Protest Against Hometheft

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Randy hits another home run. Here are some high points. It is not an overstatement to say that the Global Financial Crisis would not have ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Matt Bruenig — Anti-liberty economic regulations: a dialogue

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More libertarian fun. Anti-liberty economic regulations: a dialogue  Matt Bruenig
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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Barkley Rosser — More On Owning Unowned Land

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Economics, law, and the origin of property rights. Merrill cites John Locke on this who wrote, amazingly enough, that we should think of t...
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Thursday, April 17, 2014

J. Barkley Rosser — Who Owns Unowned Land?

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Why Cliven Bundy doesn't have a legal leg to stand on. Also a interesting look at property rights. Econospeak Who Owns Unowned Land? J...
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Sunday, October 6, 2013

Frances Coppola and Daniel P. Ellsberg on Property Rights

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People of libertarian persuasion are often very keen on the idea that Government should "defend property rights". Their view is t...
Saturday, October 5, 2013

David Sirota — Big Oil Loses It: ExxonMobil Claims it Owns the Letter “X”!

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Apparently if you are the world’s richest oil company used to making $104 million in profit every day, no lawsuit is too frivolous, expensi...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

Mike Konczal — How Ronald Coase Demolished Current Libertarian Ideas About Property

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Property isn’t a vertical relationship between a person and an object, but instead is a horizontal, reciprocal relationship of exclusions b...
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Friday, August 9, 2013

Yves Smith — Questioning the Underlying Structures of Property and Power is “Off the Table”

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Cuts to the chase. Economics is fundamentally about power. Discussion of power, like money, is off-limits in conventional economics. Mone...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Ben Jealous and Philip Radford —How Shell is trying to send a chill through activist groups across the country

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This summer, the 9th Circuit Court in California is weighing the question of whether companies have the right to take preemptive legal acti...
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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Izabella Kaminska quotes R. Buckminster (Bucky) Fuller

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Izabella Kaminska posted two Bucky Fuller quotes at Toward A Leisure Society today that are relevant to economics and politics : BUCKY O...
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Friday, March 29, 2013

Timothy Taylor — Is "Intellectual Property" a Misnomer?

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If "intellectual property" is not a misnomer, then it needs to be explained on what basis a property right is time-delimited, as a...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Daniel Little — Ostrom's central idea

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Essentially her research comes down to this point: There are multiple possible property systems through which access to natural resources c...