Perspectives on Property Law

by Ellickson, Robert C.

• ISBN13: 9780735528741
• ISBN10: 0735528748
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law and Business

Summary

This reader continues its track record of success of combining fascinating and essential readings and materials pertaining to property law with author commentary. Traits the authors continue to build upon: essays and articles articulate important points related To The major issues in property law essays that are accompanied by introductory text, notes, and questions to deepend students' understanding of the ideas contained in the essays a well-known and respected author team Heller/Eisenberg's article regarding anit-commons And The over-patenting of the human genome Pipes' article on how the lack of private property contributed To The decline of the Soviet Union Desoto's article on titling in developing nations

Table of Contents

Preface	xvii
Acknowledgements	xxi
The Debate over Private Property	1	(118)
Culture and Human Nature	1	(44)
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates	1	(7)
Erving Goffman
Property and Personhood	8	(12)
Margaret Jane Radin
Human Nature and the Fall of Communism	20	(8)
Richard Pipes
Property as Storytelling: Perspectives from Game Theory, Narrative Theory, Feminist Theory	28	(17)
Carol M. Rose
Property and Prosperity	45	(30)
Commentaries on the Laws of England	45	(9)
William Blackstone
Economic analysis of Law	54	(9)
Richard A. Posner
Are Property and Contract Efficient?	63	(12)
Duncan Kennedy
Frank Michelman
Diffusion of Political Power	75	(17)
Capitalism and Freedom	75	(17)
Milton Friedman
Distributive Justice	92	(27)
A Theory of Justice	94	(9)
John Rawls
Backlash	103	(16)
Mark J. Roe
The Problem of the Commons	119	(51)
Tragedy or Comedy?	119	(16)
The Tragedy of the Commons	119	(10)
Garrett Hardin
The Lobster Gangs of Maine	129	(6)
James M. Acheson
The Economics of the Commons	135	(24)
Toward a Theory of Property Rights	135	(11)
Harold Demsetz
Property in Land	146	(13)
Robert C. Ellickson
The Problem of the Anticommons	159	(11)
Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research	159	(11)
Michael A. Heller
Rebecca S. Eisenberg
The Significance of Possession	170	(30)
The Economics of Rights, Cooperation and Welfare	170	(10)
Robert Sugden
Possession as the Origin of Property	180	(10)
Carol M. Rose
Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Adverse Possession	190	(10)
Thomas W. Merrill
The Coase Theorem and Its Limitations	200	(33)
The Problem of Social Cost	200	(10)
Ronald H. Coase
Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes	210	(11)
Robert C. Ellickson
Cass R. Sunstein & Richard Thaler, A Behavioral Approach to Law and Economics	221	(12)
Christine Jolls
Property Rules, Liability Rules	233	(28)
Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral	233	(16)
Guido Calabresi
A. Douglas Melamed
Property Rules and Liability Rules: The Cathedral in Another Light	249	(12)
James E. Krier
Stewart J. Schwab
Property Rights that Arise Outside the Legal System	261	(36)
The Evolution of Cooperation	261	(12)
Robert Axelrod
Culture and Fairness in the Development of Institutions in the California Gold Fields	273	(13)
Richard O. Zerbe, Jr.
C. Leigh Anderson
To Each Less than She Needs, From Each More than She Can Do: Allocations, Entitlements and Value	286	(11)
Hanna Papanek
Transacting and Trading	297	(63)
Ground Rules for Exchange	297	(24)
Filling Gaps in Incomplete Contracts: An Economic Theory of Default Rules	297	(7)
Ian Ayres
Robert Gertner
Crystals and Mud in Property Law	304	(17)
Carol M. Rose
Conflicting Paradigms of Entitlement and Exchange	321	(15)
Two Properties, One Land: Law and Space in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand	321	(15)
Stuart Banner
Markets and Morals	336	(24)
Market-Inalienability	336	(9)
Margaret Jane Radin
Rival Interpretations of Market Society: Civilizing, Destructive, or Feeble?	345	(15)
Albert O. Hirschman
The Subdivision of Property Interests: Of Landlords and Tenants	360	(63)
Constraints on Decomposition	360	(14)
Optimal Standardization in the Law of Property: The Numerus Clausus Principle	360	(14)
Thomas W. Merrill
Henry E. Smith
Neighbors in Time: Of Future Interests	374	(13)
Economic Analysis of Law	374	(7)
Richard A. Posner
The ``Back Forty'' on a Handshake: Specific Assets, Reputation, and the Structure of Farmland Contracts	381	(6)
Douglas W. Allen
Dean Lueck
Rental Housing Markets	387	(17)
Poor Tenants, Poor Landlords, Poor Policy	387	(6)
Irving Welfeld
Private Production: Has the Rising Tide Lifted All Boats?	393	(11)
John C. Weicher
Minimum Housing Standards	404	(11)
Economic Analysis of Law	404	(5)
Richard A. Posner
Regulating Slum Housing Markets on Behalf of the Poor	409	(6)
Bruce A. Ackerman
Rent Control	415	(8)
Rent Control: The International Experience	415	(8)
Richard Arnott
Land Use and the Environment	423	(113)
Servitudes and Private Communities	423	(14)
Covenants and Constitutions	423	(14)
Richard A. Epstein
Public Land Use Controls	437	(33)
A Walk Along Willow: Patterns of Land Use Coordination in Pre-Zoning New Haven (1870-1926)	437	(19)
Andrew J. Cappel
Do Growth Controls Matter? A Review of Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Local Government Land Use Regulation	456	(14)
William A. Fischel
Housing Segregation	470	(10)
Micromotives and Macrobehavior	470	(10)
Thomas C. Schelling
The Takings Issue	480	(41)
Property, Utility, and Fairness: Comments on the Ethical Foundations of ``Just Compensation'' Law	480	(22)
Frank I. Michelman
Takings, Insurance, and Michelman: Comments on Economic Interpretations of ``Just Compensation'' Law	502	(19)
William A. Fischel
Perry Shapiro
Environmental Protection	521	(15)
Explaining Market Mechanisms	521	(15)
Thomas W. Merrill
The Public Domain	536
The Governance of Public Lands	537
The Public Trust Doctrine in Natural Resource Law: Effective Judicial Intervation	537
Joseph L. Sax
Controlling Chronic Misconduct in City Spaces: Of Panhandlers, Skid Rows, and Public-Space Zoning	548
Robert C. Ellickson
Intellectual Achievements: Public Domain, Private Property, or Limited Commons?	560
Property Rights Theory and the Commons: The Case of Scientific Research	560
Robert P. Merges