...Walter Block Purpose The purpose of this paper is to counteract Epstein's views on the alienability of property. Epstein favors limitations of laissez‐faire capitalism regarding such things as guns, liquor, narcotics, certain books and voting and this paper aims to criticize them from...

... philosophical edifice. One implication of the foregoing is that the donut owner cannot prevent others from crossing his property (in order to have access to the land he is in effect blockading). That is, under the donut configuration assumption, even though the owner has duly homesteaded every square inch...

...Andrew K. Dragun Property rights are often seen to be the cause and the solution of a wide range of social problems especially those affecting the natural environment. But, the property rights box is indeed pandoran, spawning as many questions as it answers as a function of diverse theoretical...

..., and in the keeping of poultry and pigs. The extent to which women are involved in maintaining the health of livestock is considered. Both village bovines and poultry utilise common property resources to a considerable extent in Thailand. This has implications for the economics and productivity of keeping village...

... as a highly significant explanatory factor represents a major specification improvement over earlier studies. Examines four categories of property crime in Australia over the period 1982‐1991. The findings provide significant support for a number of the postulates of the economic theory of crime...

...Ernest Raiklin Questions the meanings of the economic concepts which are usually taken for granted by many economics textbooks. Discusses notions of“property” (including actual, legal, private and public property), “possession”, “market”,“capitalism”, “socialism”,“communism” and “planning”, all...

...” privatization. Figure show Figure this process has been very slow and only certain branches of state property have been bought. Sales have been through auctions rather than conversion to joint‐stock companies. The numbers are not very impressive. They reveal that privatization of even small‐scale state...

... environments and shortages of resources. More importantly, the“possessive individualist” attitude to property tends to have an internalizing effect on human consciousness, separating people from one another and blinding them to certain realities. Argues that other relations to property and other modes...

.... But it is a conclusion drawn from the basis of the traditional, sealed-form concept of ownership right, which does not conform to the reality of the modern commodity economy. The fundamental characteristics of the modern market economy lie in the socialisation of property on the basis of commercialisation of labour...

... not distinguish clearly enough between property as a means of self‐expression and property as a reward for performing social tasks, and which does not effectively deal with the tension between public and private property. These difficulties go back to David Hume as well as to Adam Smith and some clues...

...Matti Virén New evidence on Finnish property criminality is presented. The analysis is based on Erlich′s model; the empirical analysis makes use of annual Finnish data for the period 1951‐1986. The estimation results strongly support the notion that both the apprehension rate and the severity...

... transactions costs by enforcing a system of property rights. Enforcement is enhanced by the promise of heaven and threat of hell, two innovations uniquely available to the church. Some implications of the model using the standard Cross‐cultural Sample of the Human Relations Area Files are tested. © MCB UP...