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The politics of property rights : political instability, credible commitments, and economic growth in Mexico, 1876-1929
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ISBN: 1107136296 1280430796 0511180667 0511061773 0511204795 0511307624 0511615612 0511070233 9780511061776 9780511615610 9780521820677 0521820677 9780511070235 9786610430796 6610430799 0521820677 9780521603546 0521603544 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book addresses a puzzle in political economy: why is it that political instability does not necessarily translate into economic stagnation or collapse? In order to address this puzzle, it advances a theory about property rights systems in many less developed countries. In this theory, governments do not have to enforce property rights as a public good. Instead, they may enforce property rights selectively (as a private good), and share the resulting rents with the group of asset holders who are integrated into the government. Focusing on Mexico, this book explains how the property rights system was constructed during the Porfirio Díaz dictatorship (1876-1911) and then explores how this property rights system either survived, or was reconstructed. The result is an analytic economic history of Mexico under both stability and instability, and a generalizable framework about the interaction of political and economic institutions.

The great land rush and the making of the modern world, 1650-1900
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ISBN: 1282861069 9786612861062 0773570969 9780773570962 0773525270 9780773525276 Year: 2003 Publisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : ©2003 McGill-Queen's University Press,

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He also underscores the tragic history of the indigenous peoples of these regions and shoes how they came to lose "possession" of their land to newly formed governments made up of Europeans with European interests at heart. Weaver shows that the enormous efforts involved in defining and registering large numbers of newly carved-out parcels of property for reallocation during the Great Land Rush were instrumental in the emergence of much stronger concepts of property rights and argues that this period was marked by a complete disregard for previous notions of restraint on dreams of unlimited material possibility. Today, while the traditional forms of colonization that marked the Great Land Rush are no longer practiced by the European powers and their progeny in the new world, the legacy of this period can be seen in the western powers' insatiable thirst for economic growth, including newer forms of economic colonization of underdeveloped countries, and a continuing evolution of the concepts of property rights, including the development and increasing growth in importance of intellectual property rights.

Securing land rights in Africa
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ISBN: 0714653802 0714683159 0203045882 1283887010 1136346244 9781136346248 9780203045886 9780714653808 9780714683157 9781136346385 1136346384 9781136346316 1136346317 9781283887014 Year: 2003 Publisher: London ; Portland, Or. : Frank Cass, in association with EADI, European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes, Bonn,

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This collection of research papers from across the African continent illustrates the complex and ever-changing rules of the land tenure game, and how government legislation and reform (formalization) interact with local innovations (informalization) to form land tenure systems.


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The idea of property : its meaning and power
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ISBN: 0191698229 9780191698224 Year: 2003 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Legal scholars and philosophers have long been engaged in studying the secret of the internal structure of property in law. This text aims to advance our understanding of property as an idea and the power that claimed property rights should have against competing public interests.


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Land Wars
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ISBN: 1626373779 9781626373778 Year: 2003 Publisher: Boulder, CO Lynne Rienner Publishers

The role of scientific and technical data and information in the public domain : proceedings of a symposium
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ISBN: 030908850X 9786610209415 1280209410 0309525454 9780309525459 9781280209413 9780309088503 6610209413 0309167086 Year: 2003 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press,

Women and land in Africa : culture, religion and realizing women's rights.
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ISBN: 1842770977 1842770969 Year: 2003 Publisher: London Zed

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This volume reports on ongoing original research into the changing situations which rural African women are experiencing in relation to land rights. Undertaken with an explicitly political intention, its authors came together in order to link research and analysis with advocacy and action--the purpose being to contribute toward equalizing gender relations in Africa and promoting the ability of African women to achieve a greater measure of economic independence as well as other human rights.

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