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Making Room for a Planet of Cities
Enfoques en políticas de sueloEnero 2011Shlomo Angel, with Jason Parent, Daniel L. Civco, and Alejandro M. BleiThis report—the precursor to Planet of Cities—provides policy makers and planners with a conceptual framework for understanding urban expansion and provides research-based suggestions for...
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Opportunities and Limits for the Evolution of Property Rights Institutions
PonenciasNoviembre 2011Thráinn EggertssonIn 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...
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The Variety of Property Systems and Rights in Natural Resources
PonenciasNoviembre 2011Daniel H. Cole and Elinor OstromIn this paper, Daniel H. Cole and Elinor Ostrom examine the current state of property theory relative to the impressive range, scope, and depth of recent social-scientific investigations into real-...
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Gold Rush Legacy
American Minerals and the Knowledge EconomyPonenciasNoviembre 2011Karen Clay and Gavin WrightIn 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...
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Gold Rushes Are All the Same
Labor Rules the DiggingsPonenciasNoviembre 2011Andrea G. McDowellIn 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...
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Property Creation by Regulation
Rights to Clean Air and Rights to PollutePonenciasNoviembre 2011Daniel H. ColeIn 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...
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Who Owns Endangered Species?
PonenciasNoviembre 2011Jason F. Shogren and Gregory M. ParkhurstIn 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...
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The Evolution of Zoning Since the 1980s
The Persistence of LocalismPonenciasNoviembre 2011This paper, by William A. Fischel, examines three broad themes in the evolution of zoning. The first theme is the persistence of localism in zoning despite numerous top down attempts to reform zoning...
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A Political Analysis of Property Rights
PonenciasNoviembre 2011William BlomquistIn this paper, William Blomquist provides a positive political treatment of property rights. His approach supplements standard political-economic accounts of property rights that combine a simple...
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Water Rights and Markets in the U.S. Semiarid West
Efficiency and Equity IssuesPonenciasNoviembre 2011Gary D. LibecapIn 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...
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