Zusammenfassung Focusing on the interaction of law-making, law-interpreting, and law-enforcing institutions as these bear on US property rights law and debates about private property and the rule of law, in this 2002 book Komesar paints an unconventional picture of law, rights shifting and cycling as systemic factors.

Klappentext

This book demonstrates how property law and rights shift and cycle in the US.

Inhalt
Preface; Part I. The Basic Framework: 1. Supply and demand; 2. The spectrum of rights; 3. The supply side - the little engine of law and rights; Part II. Land Use and Rights: 4. Zoning and its discontents - political malfunction and the demand for rights; 5. Just compensation - the problems of pricing; 6. High stakes players and hidden markets; Part III. Law's Laws: 7. Theories of property: from Coase to communitarianism; 8. Numbers, complexity and the rule of law; 9. Changes; References; Index.