Economic Analysis of Property Rights
2nd Edition
Published on 13. June 1997
978-1-316-04626-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is a study of the way individuals organise the use of resources in order to maximise the value of their economic rights over these resources. Property rights and all forms of organisation result from people's deliberate actions. In the tradition of Coase, this study offers a unified theoretical structure to deal with exchange, rights formation and organisation which traditional economic theory assumes away. A person's economic property rights over an asset are defined here as the person's ability to gain from the asset by direct consumption or by exchange. It is prohibitively costly to measure accurately all assets' attributes; therefore, rights to them are never fully delineated. Property is consequently in danger of appropriation by others. Individuals enhance their rights by such actions as the protection and better delineation of their assets. In this new edition, Professor Barzel introduces the central role of equity capital as a guarantor of the activities of the firm and elaborates on the distinction between economic rights and legal rights.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cambridge University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
7 Line drawings, unspecified
File size
11,03 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-316-04626-5 (9781316046265)
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Economic Analysis of Property Rights
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Content
Introduction; 1. The property rights model; 2. The public domain: rationing by waiting and price controls; 3. Contract choice: the tenancy contract; 4. Divided ownership; 5. The old firm and the new organization; 6. The formation of rights; 7. Slavery; 8. Wealth maximization constraints on property rights; 9. Property rights and non-market allocation; 10. Additional property rights applications; 11. The property rights model: recapitulation; References.
