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Property Rights
A Category Archive (28 entries)
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April 4, 2013
Cross-country Comparisons
David Henderson
In response to my post earlier today, Tim Worstall wrote me. He quoted this from my review: We have examples of highly extractive governments even in the modern world. One shocking one, to me at least, is the case of... MORE
March 23, 2013
Economic Education
David Henderson
In a few minutes I'm flying down to Los Angeles to attend a memorial service for the late Armen Alchian. Most of the short appreciation I wrote out covers issues I've already talked about in the bio linked above and... MORE
February 19, 2013
Property Rights
David Henderson
Armen Alchian died this morning at age 98. He taught me microeconomics my first quarter at UCLA, in the fall of 1972. At the time, he was 58 and in his prime. That was the most demanding economics course I... MORE
January 1, 2013
San Jose State University economist Jeffrey Rogers Hummel sent the following capsule review of David A. Moss, When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000). Jeff writes: Limited liability remains a subject of... MORE
April 3, 2012
Property Rights
David Henderson
Should restaurants allow smoking or not? Should schools teach evolution or intelligent design or both? Should insurance companies cover contraception? Should I be able to take off my shoes in your living room? This is the opening paragraph of the... MORE
March 14, 2012
Property Rights
David Henderson
One of the left's most effective canards has been its alleged distinction between property rights and human rights. The fact is that property rights are human rights. My right to my computer--my property--is not my computer's right to itself. It's... MORE
March 13, 2012
Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings
Arnold Kling
The book is The Rent is Too Damn High. Counties, municipalities, states, and everyone else involved in promulgating land-use regulations need to ease off on parking requirements, artificial constraints on lot size, height restrictions, etc. Other interesting excerpts below. (Possibly... MORE
December 10, 2011
Property Rights
Arnold Kling
From Eli Dourado. If we could be certain that eminent domain would only used when it was efficiency-enhancing, and that adequate compensation would be made to the expropriated, I would have no problem with it. I would regard it as... MORE
November 7, 2011
Regulation
David Henderson
How Government Intervention Helped Start the 1967 Detroit Riot Here's the [Kerner Commission] report's first paragraph on Detroit: "On Saturday evening, July 22, the Detroit Police Department raided five 'blind pigs.' The blind pigs had their origin in prohibition days,... MORE
June 25, 2011
Property Rights
David Henderson
Mark Thoma has an excellent post on privacy. Actually, it's about more than privacy: he highlights a New York Times piece by David Shipler about privacy that is also about more than privacy. Both call privacy a "privilege." But some... MORE
March 11, 2011
Property Rights
David Henderson
As a specific instance, the fire-bomb raids on Hamburg in July and August 1943 were highly intense community-wide disasters. As normally occurs in such situations, people proved tougher than structures. The raids destroyed about 50 percent of the buildings in... MORE
February 20, 2011
Property Rights
David Henderson
Mea Culpa In a post on Friday, I claimed, with the headline, that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while criticizing other governments for attacking freedom of speech, went on with her speech even while "goons" (my word) in the auditorium... MORE
December 30, 2010
Americans who have the means should refuse to surrender to Senate Republicans. We should act, together, to give back our Bush tax cuts, by making donations to organizations that promote fairness, economic growth, and a vibrant middle class. GiveItBackforJobs enables... MORE
December 2, 2010
Property Rights
David Henderson
In my article in the most-recent Freeman, I use an approach used by William Graham Sumner in his classic article, "The Conquest of United States by Spain." Here are excerpts: Something similar may be happening in the United States, not... MORE
November 18, 2010
Labor Market
David Henderson
Bryan's various posts [here's one--the rest are easy to find with the Search function] on Eugene Richter's dystopian novel, Pictures of the Socialistic Future, persuaded me to read the book. I think Bryan nailed it in his Foreword in saying... MORE
October 7, 2010
Microeconomics
Arnold Kling
William Polley recommended a paper by Annelise Graebner Anderson. Russ Roberts recommended an essay by Fred S. McChesney. The point is that fire-fighting began as a private function. Largely volunteer in the U.S. In London, fire brigades were hired by... MORE
September 18, 2010
Property Rights
David Henderson
One more problem with securitization. This morning, Yves Smith over at Naked Capitalism has a sobering article about a not-very-well-known time bomb in real estate. Here's a relevant section: Given how many sales will be done out of REO, and... MORE
August 20, 2010
Property Rights
David Henderson
That's close to what I said to the E*Trade guy when I called up this morning to close my account. See my previous post, "You're Not a Frequent Trader? We'll Take Your Stuff," for why I wanted to close the... MORE
August 19, 2010
Property Rights
David Henderson
Just watching the O'Reilly Factor a few minutes ago, I saw Geraldo Rivera make an interesting proposal about the controversial mosque/athletic facility/culinary school/art studio near ground zero in Manhattan. He started by stating out that the current owner of the... MORE
August 18, 2010
Property Rights
David Henderson
When I got home from work Tuesday evening, there was a message on my answering machine from E*Trade. I have an account with E*Trade that I've used to buy stocks. I'm not an active trader. I tend to buy and... MORE
July 23, 2010
Property Rights
David Henderson
Sometimes it seems as if the world has turned upside down. Check out this debate between Pamela Geller, an Objectivist who likes the work of Ayn Rand [her blog is www.atlasshrugs.com] and Ibrahim Ramey of the Muslim American Society. Ms.... MORE
June 30, 2010
Property Rights
Bryan Caplan
Over at Cato Unbound, my old friend Sheldon Richman denies that restrictive covenants are kosher in libertarian terms:[I]n a fully free society restrictive covenants in deeds would be unenforceable because they are feudal in nature and thus violate fundamental libertarian... MORE
June 4, 2010
Property Rights
Arnold Kling
There is a problem with the assignment of property rights on Karl Marx Street. The street is in Griebnetzsee, a suburb of Berlin, and it sits on a hill overlooking a beautiful lake. It is very chic, with fancy villas.... MORE
April 3, 2010
Property Rights
David Henderson
I posted on Avatar as a defense of property rights in January. I commented that during the movie, I had whispered to one of my friends, "This is the Kelo decision." Various people pushed back on this site and on... MORE
March 25, 2010
Property Rights
David Henderson
My back yard is empty, but that does not give Netanyahu the right to put up an apartment complex on it. This is from Juan Cole's article, "Top Ten Reasons East Jerusalem does not belong to Jewish-Israelis." The whole thing... MORE
January 11, 2010
Property Rights
David Henderson
In fact, Avatar is a powerful antiwar movie - and a defense of property rights. For that reason, I found it easy to identify with those whose way of life was being destroyed by military might. This is from my... MORE
November 4, 2009
Efficient Markets Hypothesis
David Henderson
In this month's Featured Article, Fred McChesney pays tribute to the work of Armen Alchian and makes the case that he deserves the Nobel prize in economics. I already knew most of what McChesney writes because, after all, I studied... MORE
August 23, 2009
Property Rights
David Henderson
Ronald Coase won the Nobel prize for, in part, what has become known as the Coase Theorem. According to this theorem, if people could bargain at low cost, there would be no problem of externalities and, indeed, the outcome would... MORE
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