Showing posts with label property rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label property rights. Show all posts
Sunday, January 7, 2024

Market Design for Surface Water , by Ferguson and Milgrom

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 The potential market for surface water is a market in which any transfer of rights involves externalities affecting the water consumption o...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

The market for music rights--all Bob Dylan's songs

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  The NY Times has the story: Bob Dylan Sells His Songwriting Catalog in Blockbuster Deal--Universal Music purchased his entire songwriting ...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

Cory Doctorow on copyright

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Cory Doctorow in The Guardian: What do we want copyright to do? " when we talk about copyright, we're not just talking about who...
Monday, February 16, 2009

Sustainable fisheries

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Nowhere is the "tragedy of the commons" clearer than in ocean fisheries, which are difficult to regulate and maintain in a sustain...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

Market for ideas

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Joshua Gans and Scott Stern sent me a fascinating market design paper called Is there a market for ideas? , which performs some admirable i...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

Property rights and real estate: Squatting in Britain

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Markets allocate rights, but laws determine what those rights entail. Britain's real estate laws are unusual in giving owners only limit...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Bankruptcy

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Contracts are shaped in part by the legal framework that determines what happens when contracts break down. The long time scholar of bankrup...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

British organ donation: opt in versus opt out

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The Telegraph reports that A report into organ donation ordered by Gordon Brown will not recommend a system of presumed consent. "The g...
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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Property rights

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A lack of well defined property rights can hamper efficiency. A case in point: Christians Feud Over Church of Holy Sepulcher "The Israe...