Property Rights and Land Policies
Author: Gregory K. Ingram
Publisher: Lincoln Inst of Land Policy
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 9781558441880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gregory K. Ingram
Publisher: Lincoln Inst of Land Policy
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 9781558441880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Terry L. Anderson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780691099989
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2021-01-07
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1108835236
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2015-10-07
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1107117305
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explains the origins of Chinese land politics and explores how property rights and urban growth strategies differ among Chinese cities.
Author: Timothy Sandefur
Publisher: Cato Institute
Published: 2006-10-25
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1933995327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Harvey M. Jacobs
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1998-10-15
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0299159930
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Task Force on Private Property Rights
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 318
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gary D. Libecap
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780521449045
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The histories of rights to minerals, range, timber land, fishery and crude oil production in the U.S. are examined to reveal the problems encountered in negotiations among claimants and the political and economic considerations that influence property rights arrangements.
Author: Karen Bradshaw
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-11-23
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780226571225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumption are disastrous for wildlife and humans alike. The alarm bells ringing about biodiversity loss are growing louder, and the possibility of mass extinction is real. Anthropocentric property is a key driver of biodiversity loss, a silent killer of species worldwide. But as law and sustainability scholar Karen Bradshaw shows, if excluding animals from a legal right to own land is causing their destruction, extending the legal right to own property to wildlife may prove its salvation. Wildlife as Property Owners advocates for folding animals into our existing system of property law, giving them the opportunity to own land just as humans do—to the betterment of all.