Author: Gregory K. Ingram
Publisher: Lincoln Inst of Land Policy
ISBN: 9781558441880
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 483

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Author: Terry L. Anderson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691099989
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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In the end, the book provides a fresh, comprehensive overview of an intriguing subject, accessible to anyone with a minimal background in economics. (An introductory chapter introduces the handful of assumptions embedded in the text's economics and law).

Author: Michael Albertus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108835236
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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A new understanding of the causes and consequences of incomplete property rights in countries across the world.

Author: Meg E. Rithmire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107117305
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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This book explains the origins of Chinese land politics and explores how property rights and urban growth strategies differ among Chinese cities.

Author: Harvey M. Jacobs
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299159930
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Land ownership by individual citizens is a cornerstone of American heritage and a centerpiece of the American dream. Thomas Jefferson called it the key to our success as a democracy. Yet the question of who owns America not only remains unanswered but is central to a fundamental conflict that can pit private property rights advocates against government policymakers and environmentalists. Land use authority Harvey M. Jacobs has gathered a provocative collection of perspectives from eighteen contributors in the fields of law, history, anthropology, economics, sociology, forestry, and environmental studies. Who Owns America? begins with the popular view of land ownership as seen though the television show Bonanza! It examines public regulation of private land; public land management; the roles culture and ethnic values play in land use; and concludes with Jacobs’ title essay. Who Owns America? is a powerful and illuminating exploration of the very terrain that makes us Americans. Its broad set of theoretical and historical perspectives will fascinate historians, environmental activists, policy makers, and all who care deeply about the land we share.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Task Force on Private Property Rights
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eminent domain
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Task Force on Private Property Rights
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: Timothy Sandefur
Publisher: Cato Institute
ISBN: 1933995327
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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The right to own and use private property is among the most essential human rights and the essential basis for economic growth. That’s why America’s Founders guaranteed it in the Constitution. Yet in today’s America, government tramples on this right in countless ways. Regulations forbid people to use their property as they wish, bureaucrats extort enormous fees from developers in exchange for building permits, and police departments snatch personal belongings on the suspicion that they were involved in crimes. In the case of Kelo v. New London, the Supreme Court even declared that government may seize homes and businesses and transfer the land to private developers to build stores, restaurants, or hotels. That decision was met with a firestorm of criticism across the nation. In this, the first book on property rights to be published since the Kelo decision, Timothy Sandefur surveys the landscape of private property in America’s third century. Beginning with the role property rights play in human nature, Sandefur describes how America’s Founders wrote a Constitution that would protect this right and details the gradual erosion that began with the Progressive Era’s abandonment of the principles of individual liberty. Sandefur tells the gripping stories of people who have found their property threatened: Frank Bugryn and his Connecticut Christmas-tree farm; Susette Kelo and the little dream house she renovated; Wilhelmina Dery and the house she was born in, 80 years before bureaucrats decided to take it; Dorothy English and the land she wanted to leave to her children; and Kenneth Healing and his 17-year legal battle for permission to build a home. Thanks to the abuse of eminent domain and asset forfeiture laws, federal, state, and local governments have now come to see property rights as mere permissions, which can be revoked at any time in the name of the “greater good.” In this book, Sandefur explains what citizens can do to restore the Constitution’s protections for this “cornerstone of liberty.”

Author: Terry L. Anderson
Publisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 081793913X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Drawing on the thoughts of various philosophers, political thinkers, economists, and lawyers, Terry Anderson and Laura Huggins present a blueprint for the nonexpert-expert on how societies can encourage or discourage freedom and prosperity through their property rights institutions. This Hoover Classic edition of Property Rightsdetails step-by-step what property rights are, what they do, how they evolve, how they can be protected, and how they promote freedom and prosperity.

Author: Henry Norris Copp
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 688

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