Perspectives on property law / Robert C. Ellickson, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law, Yale Law School ; Carol M. Rose, Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor Emeritus of Law and Organization and Professorial Lecturer In Law, Yale Law School ; Henry E. Smith, Fessenden Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.
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Perspectives on property law / Robert C. Ellickson, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law, Yale Law School ; Carol M. Rose, Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor Emeritus of Law and Organization and Professorial Lecturer In Law, Yale Law School ; Henry E. Smith, Fessenden Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.
Published
New York : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2014.
Call Number
KF562 .E25 2014
Edition
Fourth edition.
ISBN
9781454842026 (pbk.)
1454842024 (pbk.)
1454842024 (pbk.)
Description
xx, 476 pages ; 26 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)874557746
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages xvii-xx) and author index.
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Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Preface
xv
Acknowledgements
xvii
ch. 1
Debate over Private Property
1
A.
Culture and Human Nature
1
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates / Erving Goffman
1
Property and Personhood / Margaret Jane Radin
6
Property as Storytelling: Perspectives from Game Theory, Narrative Theory, Feminist Theory / Carol M. Rose
16
B.
Property and Prosperity
29
Commentaries on the Laws of England / William Blackstone
29
Two Treatises of Government / John Locke
36
Treatise of Human Nature / David Hume
42
C.
Property and Freedom
52
Capitalism and Freedom / Milton Friedman
52
Anarchy, State, and Utopia / Robert Nozick
65
Beyond the Harm Principle / Arthur Ripstein
74
D.
Property and Equality
81
Theory of Justice / John Rawls
83
To Each Less Than She Needs, From Each More Than She Can Do: Allocations, Entitlements and Value / Hanna Papanek
90
ch. 2
Problem of the Commons
99
A.
Tragedy or Comedy?
99
Tragedy of the Commons / Garret Hardin
99
Lobster Gangs of Maine / James M. Acheson
107
B.
Economics of the Commons
112
Toward a Theory of Property Rights / Harold Demsetz
112
Property in Land / Robert C. Ellickson
121
C.
Beyond the Commons
131
Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research / Rebecca S. Eisenberg
131
Semicommon Property Rights and Scattering in the Open Fields / Henry E. Smith
139
ch. 3
Significance of Possession
149
Economics of Rights, Cooperation and Welfare / Robert Sugden
149
Possession as the Origin of Property / Carol M. Rose
157
Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Adverse Possession / Thomas W. Merrill
165
ch. 4
Coase Theorem and Its Limitations
173
Problem of Social Cost / Ronald H. Coase
173
Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes / Robert C. Ellickson
181
Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis & Richard McElreath / Joseph Henrich
In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies
190
ch. 5
Property Rules, Liability Rules
201
Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral / A. Douglas Melamed
201
Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Uncertainty about Property Rights / Stewart E. Sterk
214
ch. 6
Property Rights That Arise Outside the Legal System
225
Evolution of Cooperation / Robert Axelrod
225
Unpacking the Household: Informal Property Rights Around the Hearth / Robert C. Ellickson
235
Property Outlaws / Sonia K. Katyal
243
ch. 7
Transacting and Trading
251
A.
Ground Rules for Exchange
251
Large-Scale Institutional Changes: Land Demarcation in the British Empire / Trevor O'Grady
251
Crystals and Mud in Property Law / Carol M. Rose
259
B.
Conflicting Paradigms of Entitlement and Exchange
273
Two Properties, One Land: Law and Space in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand / Stuart Banner
273
C.
Markets and Morals
284
Market-Inalienability / Margaret Jane Radin
284
Rival Interpretations of Market Society: Civilizing, Destructive, or Feeble? / Albert O. Hirschman
292
ch. 8
Subdivision of Property Interests
305
A.
Bundle or Things?
305
Legal Rights Debate in Analytical Jurisprudence from Bentham to Hohfeld / Joseph William Singer
305
Property as the Law of Things / Henry E. Smith
313
B.
Decomposition
322
Economic Analysis of Law / Richard A. Posner
322
Optimal Standardization in the Law of Property: The Numerus Clausus Principle / Henry E. Smith
329
C.
Entity Property
339
Poor Tenants, Poor Landlords, Poor Policy / Irving Welfeld
339
Essential Role of Organizational Law / Reinier Kraakman
344
Allocation of Resources by Voting / Tim R. Sass
352
ch. 9
Land Use and the Environment
361
A.
Servitudes and Private Communities
361
Covenants and Constitutions / Richard A. Epstein
361
B.
Public Land Use Controls
372
Zoning's Steep Price / Joseph Gyourko
372
Homevoters, Municipal Corporate Governance, and the Benefit View of the Property Tax / William A. Fischel
380
C.
Housing Segregation
388
Micromotives and Macrobehavior / Thomas C. Schelling
388
D.
Environmental Protection
396
Explaining Market Mechanisms / Thomas W. Merrill
396
ch. 10
Public Dimension of Property
409
A.
Public Domain
410
Public Trust Doctrine in Natural Resource Law: Effective Judicial Intervention / Joseph L. Sax
410
Property Rights Theory and the Commons: The Case of Scientific Research / Robert P. Merges
419
B.
Takings Issue
429
Property, Utility, and Fairness: Comments on the Ethical Foundations of "Just Compensation" Law / Frank I. Michelman
429
Takings, Insurance, and Michelman: Comments on Economic Interpretations of "Just Compensation" Law / Perry Shapiro
446
"Public Menace" of Blight: Urban Renewal and the Private Uses of Eminent Domain / Wendall E. Pritchett
460
Author Index
471