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1. Opportunities and Limits for the Evolution of Property Rights Institutions

   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2011
   Thráinn Eggertsson

   In this paper, Thráinn Eggertsson examines how assumptions based on national politics and hard-to-obtain and limited data yield valuable tools for exploring the logic of institutional changes to...

2. Gold Rush Legacy

   American Minerals and the Knowledge Economy
   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2011
   Karen Clay and Gavin Wright

   In this paper, Karen Clay and Gavin Wright argue that the gold-mining camps of California had a more complex governance structure than economic historians have supposed. In some respects, the mining...

3. Gold Rushes Are All the Same

   Labor Rules the Diggings
   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2011
   Andrea G. McDowell

   In this paper, Andrea G. McDowell compares the California gold rush with others around the world and finds important common traits. She finds that the governance structure of California mining claims...

4. Property Creation by Regulation

   Rights to Clean Air and Rights to Pollute
   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2011
   Daniel H. Cole

   In this paper, Daniel H. Cole argues that, contrary to both the suppositions of some legal scholars and the theoretical underpinnings of regulatory takings doctrine, government regulations not only...

5. Rights to Pollute

   Assessment of Tradable Permits for Air Pollution
   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2011
   Nives Dolšak

   In this paper, Nives Dolšak examines the property-based approach to air-pollution control known as “cap-and-trade” and analyzes aspects of its institutional design and implementation, particularly...

6. Who Owns Endangered Species?

   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2011
   Jason F. Shogren and Gregory M. Parkhurst

   In this paper, Jason F. Shogren and Gregory M. Parkhurst raise the question, who owns endangered species? The simple answer is that we all do. However, the authors note, that answer does not help us...

7. Enclosing the Fishery Commons

   From Individuals to Communities
   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2011
   Bonnie J. McCay

   In this paper, Bonnie J. McCay explores the privatization trend in marine fisheries policy and its implications for communities of fishers. After briefly discussing the larger framework of spatial...

8. Water Rights and Markets in the U.S. Semiarid West

   Efficiency and Equity Issues
   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2011
   Gary D. Libecap

   In this paper, Gary D. Libecap explores water in the semiarid western United States-a region in which many of the intensifying demand and supply problems regarding fresh water are playing out-as a...

9. Climate Change

   The Ultimate Tragedy of the Commons?
   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2011
   Jouni Paavola

   In this paper, Jouni Paavola investigates the potential of institutional diversity and polycentric governance to deal effectively with climate change. Starting with the recognition that top-down...

10. Sinking States

    Artigos de Conferências
    Novembro 2011
    Katrina Miriam Wyman

    In this paper, Katrina Miriam Wyman addresses a novel property problem stemming from climate change: the submergence of low-lying lands because of sea-level rise and the resultant damage to property...