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2007
Rights are not fruitfully conceived as possessions. Rights are relationships, not things; they are institutionally defined rules specifying what people can do in relation to one another. Rights refer to doing more than having, to social relationships that enable or constrain action.
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Rights are not fruitfully conceived as possessions. Rights are relationships, not things; they are institutionally defined rules specifying what people can do in relation to one another. Rights refer to doing more than having, to social relationships that enable or constrain action.
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The Journal of Law and Economics, 1988
THROUGHOUT history, defeated enemies have been treated in strikingly distinct ways. Many instances are known in which they were treated with utmost brutality and massacred in large numbers. In his history of the crusades, Runciman' tells us that when the Persians conquered Jerusalem in the year 614, 60,000 Christians were murdered regardless of sex or ...
Frey, Bruno S., Buhofer, Heinz
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THROUGHOUT history, defeated enemies have been treated in strikingly distinct ways. Many instances are known in which they were treated with utmost brutality and massacred in large numbers. In his history of the crusades, Runciman' tells us that when the Persians conquered Jerusalem in the year 614, 60,000 Christians were murdered regardless of sex or ...
Frey, Bruno S., Buhofer, Heinz
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Economic Analysis of Property Rights
, 2015Interest in studying the relationship between economic institutions and economic phenomena has been increasing. Indeed, economists point to property rights as constituting one of the most interesting fields of study. Developing countries generally have a
Yohei Tenryu
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The Journal of Law and Economics, 1990
ECONOMICS literature on the evolution of property rights has increasingly emphasized the optimal timing for establishing those rights. Yoram Barzel,' Dale Mortensen,2 and Partha Dasgupta and Joseph Stiglitz,3 for example, have shown that competition among firms for the rents associated with innovative devices and ideas can lead to the dissipation of ...
Anderson, Terry, Hill, Peter J.
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ECONOMICS literature on the evolution of property rights has increasingly emphasized the optimal timing for establishing those rights. Yoram Barzel,' Dale Mortensen,2 and Partha Dasgupta and Joseph Stiglitz,3 for example, have shown that competition among firms for the rents associated with innovative devices and ideas can lead to the dissipation of ...
Anderson, Terry, Hill, Peter J.
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The Politics of Property Rights Institutions in Africa
, 20151. Divergent attitudes towards property rights institutions 2. Explaining institutional choice and change 3. Varying responses by Ghanian and Batswanaian state leaders 4. Traditional leaders take charge in Akyem Abuakwa and Ga 5. Making and then unmaking
A. Onoma
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Property Rights over Marital Transfers
, 2015In developing countries, the extent to which women possess property rights is shaped in large part by transfers received at the time of marriage. Focusing on dowry, we develop a simple model of the marriage market with intra-household bargaining in order
Siwan Anderson, Chris Bidner
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1987
In a society where individuals compete for the use of scarce resources, some rules or criteria of competition must exist to resolve the conflict. These rules, known as property rights, may be established in law, in regulation, in custom or in hierarchy ranking.
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In a society where individuals compete for the use of scarce resources, some rules or criteria of competition must exist to resolve the conflict. These rules, known as property rights, may be established in law, in regulation, in custom or in hierarchy ranking.
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1992
The conceptual dimensions of property and property rights have many practical implications for resource allocation. Economic analyses as a rule take property rights for granted. Certainly, as far as the relevance of the theory of ownership to efficient resource allocation is concerned, there is much less of a consistent, self-contained, and ...
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The conceptual dimensions of property and property rights have many practical implications for resource allocation. Economic analyses as a rule take property rights for granted. Certainly, as far as the relevance of the theory of ownership to efficient resource allocation is concerned, there is much less of a consistent, self-contained, and ...
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1976
In legal terminology the word ‘property’ has more than one meaning. Usually when one speaks of property, however, what is meant is things that are capable of being owned. But it is important to remember that things can be owned even though they do not exist in any tangible form, and because of this there is a legal distinction between things which have
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In legal terminology the word ‘property’ has more than one meaning. Usually when one speaks of property, however, what is meant is things that are capable of being owned. But it is important to remember that things can be owned even though they do not exist in any tangible form, and because of this there is a legal distinction between things which have
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Property and Succession Rights
1988In the law of property, discrimination is most likely to affect the capacity to hold property, the capacity to acquire it or the capacity to dispose of it. The law of succession is relevant both to acquisition and disposal and may contain discriminatory rules to the advantage or disadvantage of the male or the female.
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