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Property Rights in Transition
Spring 2005
Topics
- Introduction to Property Rights Revolutions Around the Globe
- The Naturalness and Unnaturalness of Property: How Do Things Become Owned?
- Property Rights Doctrine in Developing Countries: Convergence or Diversity?
- Economic Perspectives of Property Rights
- Legal Frameworks for a Market Economy: Property Rights or Contracts?
- Property Rights Without Law: Alternative Institutions
- Property Rights in Action: Empirical Evidence
- Property Rights As a Social Construction: Why and How Do They Change?
- The Tragedy and the Comedy of the Commons: Individual Private Ownership Versus Other Forms
- The Politics and Social Conflict Over Property Rights
- Takings and Givings
Readings
- Ellickson, Robert C., Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman, eds. Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Bentham, Jeremy (1802). “Security and Equality of Property.” In Property . Edited by C. B. MacPherson. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1999, pp. 39-58. ISBN: 9780802063366.
- “Property Rights and Enterprise Reform.” Chapter 3 in From Plan To Market . World Bank World Development Report. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 44-65.
- Ellickson, Robert C., Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman, eds. Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers, pp. 1-45, and 180-189. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Goffman, Erving. “Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates.” In Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Radin, Margaret Jane. “Property and Personhood.” In Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Pipes, Richard. “Human Nature and the Fall of Communism.” In Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Rose, Carol. “Possession as the Origin of Property.” In Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- ———. “Property as Storytelling: Perspectives from Game Theory, Narrative Theory, Feminist Theory.” In Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Rose, Carol M. “Afterword: Whither Commodification.” Working paper, 2004.
- Friedman, Milton. “Capitalism and Freedom.” In Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers, pp. 75-91. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- de Soto, Hernando. “The Mystery of Capital,” Chapter 3 and “The Mystery of Legal Failure.” Chapter 6 in The Mystery of Capital . New York, NY: Basic Books, 2003, pp. 39-67, and 153-206. ISBN: 9780465016150.
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- Schaefer, Peter F. “Comment on Donald A. Krueckeberg’s “The Lessons of John Locke or Hernando de Soto: What if Your Dreams Come True?”” Housing Policy Debate 15, no. 1 (2004): 25-37.
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- Demsetz, Harold. “Toward a Theory of Property.” Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers, pp. 135-145. ISBN: 9780735528741.
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- Calabresi, Guido, and A. Douglas Melamed. “One View of the Cathedral.” In Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers, pp. 200-209. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Krier, James E., and Stewart J. Schwab. “The Cathedral in another light.” In Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers, pp. 233-260. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Blackstone, William. “Commentaries on the Laws of England.” In Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers, pp. 45-53. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Merrill, Thomas W., and Henry E. Smith. “What Happened to Property in Law and Economics.” The Yale Law Journal 111, no. 2 (2001): 357-398.
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- Parisi, Francesco. “Positive, Normative, and Functional Schools in Law and Economics.” European Journal of Law and Economics 18, no. 3 (2004): 259-272.
- Ellickson, Robert C. “Order without Law: how neighbors settle disputes.” In Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers, pp. 210-220. ISBN: 9780735528741.
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- Sanyal, Bishwapriya. “Social Norms and Formal Rules: How they influenced Housing Delivery for the Urban Poor in Developing Countries.” Discussion Paper prepared for Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. 2003.
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- Braguinsky, Serguey. “Enforcement of Property Rights During the Russian Transition: problems and some approaches to a new liberal solution.” Journal of Legal Studies 28 (June 1999).
- Rose, Carol. “Crystals and Mud in Property Law.” In Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002 NY: Aspen Publishers, pp. 304-320. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Kim, A. M. “A market without the ‘right’ property rights: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s newly-emerged private real estate market.” Economics of Transition 12, no. 2 (2004): 275-305.
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- Ellickson, Robert C., Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman, eds. Chapter 2 in Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Hardin, Garrett. “The Tragedy of the Commons.” In Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Acheson, James M. “The Lobster Gangs of Maine.” In Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Demsetz, Harold. “Toward a Theory of Property.” In Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Ellickson, Robert C. “Property in Land.” In Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: the evolution of institution for collective action . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780521405997.
- Heller, Michael A. “The Tragedy of the Anticommons: Property in the Transition from Marx to Market.” Harvard Law Review 111, no. 3 (1998): 621-688.
- Krueckeberg, Donald A. “The Difficult Character of Property: to whom do things belong?” American Planning Association Journal (Summer 1995): 301-309.
- Jacobs, Harvey M. “The Politics of Property Rights at the national Level: Signals and trends.” American Planning Association Journal 69, no. 2 (Spring 2003): 181-189.
- Marcuse, Peter. “Privatization and Its Discontents: Property Rights in Land and Housing in Eastern Europe.” Chapter 5 in Cities After Socialism: Urban and Regional Change and Conflict in Post-Socialist Societies. Edited by Gregory Andrusz, Michael Harold, and Ivan Szelenyi. London, UK: Blackwell, 1996. ISBN: 9781557861641.
- Verdery, Katherine. “The Obligations of Ownership: Restoring Rights to Land in Postsocialist Transylvania.” In Property in Question . Edited by Katherine Verdery, and Caroline Hunphrey. New York, NY: Berg Publishers, 2004, pp. 139-159. ISBN: 9781859738870.
- Ellickson, Robert C., Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman, eds. Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers, pp. 480-520. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Michelman, Frank I. “Property, Utility, and Fairness.” In Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Fischel, William A., and Perry Shapiro. “Takings, Insurance and Michelman.” In Perspectives on Property Law . 3rd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. New York, 2002, NY: Aspen Publishers. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Krueckeberg, Donald. “Property for Everyone and How to Achieve It: The Resident’s Property Tax.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 18 (1998): 171-175.
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