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"Contents" [2004] ELECD 93; in Colombatto, Enrico (ed), "The Elgar Companion to the Economics of Property Rights" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004)

Book Title: The Elgar Companion to the Economics of Property Rights

Editor(s): Colombatto, Enrico

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781840649949

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents


List of tables vii
List of contributors viii
Foreword Steve Pejovich xi
Introduction Enrico Colombatto xiii

PART I THE BIRTH AND EVOLUTION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS

1 Cultural and religious foundations of private property 3
Leonard P. Liggio and Alejandro A. Chafuen
2 The ethics and economics of private property 48
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
3 The origins and evolution of property rights systems 64
Francesco Parisi
4 Empirical issues in culture and property rights 85
Seth W. Norton
5 The effect of transaction costs in the definition and exchange of
property rights: two cases from the American experience 108
Gary D. Libecap

PART II PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE LAW

6 Judicial system and property rights 129
Christian Barrère
7 On the coexistence of different property right systems ­ and its
consequences for economic growth and development 154
Stefan Voigt
8 Property rights in common and civil law 177
Norman Barry
9 Can constitutions protect private property against governmental
predation? 197
Andrzej Rapaczynski
10 Property rights systems and the rule of law 222
Ronald A. Cass




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PART III CURRENT ISSUES FROM A PROPERTY RIGHTS
PERSPECTIVE

11 Are property rights relevant for development economics? On the
dangers of Western constructivism 251
Enrico Colombatto
12 Germline engineering: whose right? 270
Lloyd Cohen
13 The contractual nature of the environment 293
Terry L. Anderson and Bobby McCormick
14 Government regulation and property rights 310
Dwight R. Lee
15 Corruption 328
Bruce L. Benson and Fred S. McChesney
16 Insider trading, takeovers ...