Economic analysis of property rights
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Economic analysis of property rights
（Political economy of institutions and decisions）
Cambridge University Press, 2023
3rd ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-272) and index
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Description
The standard neoclassical model of economics is incapable of explaining why one form of organization arises over another. It is a model where transaction costs are implicitly assumed to not exist; however, transaction costs are here defined as the costs of strengthening a given distribution of economic property rights, and they always exist. Economic Analysis of Property Rights is a study of how individuals organise resources to maximise the value of their economic rights over these resources. It offers a unified theoretical structure to deal with exchange, rights formation, and organisation that traditional economic theory often ignores. It explains how transaction costs can be reduced through reorganization and, in the end, how the distribution of property rights that exists is the one that maximizes wealth net of these transaction costs. This necessary hypothesis explains much of the puzzling organizations and institutions that exist now and have existed in the past.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Conceptual Issues: 1. The Neoclassical Problem
- 2. Economic Property Rights
- 3 : Transaction Costs
- 4. Information Costs
- 5. The Theory of Economic Property Rights
- Part II. Contracts, Organizations, and Institutions: 6. Exchange, Contracts, and Contract Choice
- 7. Divided Ownership and Organization
- 8. Institutions
- Part III. Establishing Property Rights: 9. Capture in the Public Domain
- 10. Forming Property Rights
- 11. Benefits of the Public Domain
- Part IV. Non Price Allocation and Other Issues: 12. Non-wage Labor Markets
- 13. Property Rights in Non-Market Allocations
- 14. Additional Property Rights Applications
- 15. The Property Rights Model
- Bibliography
- Index.
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