Property Rights - Cooperation, Conflict & Law

List of Figures and Tables vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Economic Approach to Property Rights 1(12) PART I: INTRODUCTION 13(46) Property Rights in the History of Economic Thought: From Locke to J. S. Mill 20(23) Edwin G. West Property Rights in the Firm 43(16) Yoram Barzel PART II: INTRODUCTION 59(54) Open Access versus Common Property 73(17) Thrainn Eggertsson Gains from Private Property: The Empirical Evidence 90(23) Louis De Alessi PART III: INTRODUCTION 113(82) The Evolution of Property Rights 118(24) Terry L. Anderson Peter J. Hill Contracting for Property Rights 142(26) Gary D. Libecap Force, Threat, Negotiation: The Private Enforcement of Rights 168(27) David D. Haddock PART IV: INTRODUCTION 195(60) First Possession as the Basis of Property 200(27) Dean Lueck Government as Definer of Property Rights: Tragedy Exiting the Commons? 227(28) Fred S. McChesney PART V: INTRODUCTION 255(46) Property Rights or Externalities? 259(23) Bruce Yandle Ownership and the Externality Problem 282(19) Harold Demsetz PART VI: INTRODUCTION 301(64) In and Out of Public Solution: The Hidden Perils of Forced and Unforced Property Transfer 307(36) Richard A. Epstein Public Goods and Property Rights: Of Coase, Tiebout, and Just Compensation 343(22) William A. Fischel References 365(26) Cases Cited 391(2) About the Editors and Authors 393(2) Index 395