Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Property Rights: Limits and Enhancements

  • Living reference work entry
  • First Online:
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics

  • 100 Accesses

This chapter distils and extends some material from Hodgson (2015a, b).

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Alchian AA (1965) Some economics of property rights. Il Politico 30:816–829

    Google Scholar 

  • Alchian AA (1977) Some implications of recognition of property right transaction costs. In: Brunner K (ed) Economics and Social Institutions: Insights from the Conferences on Analysis and Ideology. Martinus Nijhoff, Boston, pp 234–255

    Google Scholar 

  • Arruñada B (2012) Institutional foundations of impersonal exchange: theory and policy of contractual registries. University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Arruñada B (2017) Property as sequential exchange: the forgotten limits of private contract. J Inst Econ 13(4):753–783

    Google Scholar 

  • Barro RJ (1997) Determinants of economic growth: a cross-country empirical study. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA

    Google Scholar 

  • Barzel Y (1994) The capture of wealth by monopolists and the protection of property rights. Int Rev Law Econ 14(4):393–409

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Barzel Y (1997) Economic Analysis of Property Rights, 2nd edn. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Barzel Y (2002) A theory of the state: economic rights, legal rights, and the scope of the state. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Google Scholar 

  • Coase RH (1988) The firm, the market, and the law. University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Google Scholar 

  • Coase RH, Wang N (2012) How China became capitalist. Palgrave Macmillan, London/New York

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Cole DH, Grossman PZ (2002) The meaning of property rights: law versus economics? Land Econ 78(3):317–330

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Commons JR (1893) The Distribution of Wealth. Macmillan, London/New York. Reprinted 1963 (New York: Augustus Kelley)

    Google Scholar 

  • Engel C (2008) Learning the Law. J Inst Econ 4(3):275–297

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fukuyama F (2011) The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. Profile Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, London/New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Hayek FA (1973) Law, legislation and liberty; volume 1: rules and order. Routledge/Kegan Paul, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Heinsohn G, Steiger O (2013) Ownership economics: on the foundations of interest, money, markets, business cycles and economic development. Routledge, London/New York. Translated and edited by Frank Decker

    Google Scholar 

  • Hernando DS (2000) The mystery of capital: why capitalism triumphs in the west and fails everywhere else. Basic Books, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Hodgson GM (2015a) Conceptualizing capitalism: institutions, evolution, future. University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Hodgson GM (2015b) Much of the “economics of property rights” devalues property and legal rights. J Inst Econ 11(4):683–709

    Google Scholar 

  • Hodgson GM (2017) 1688 and all that: property rights, the glorious revolution and the rise of British capitalism. J Inst Econ 13(1):79–107

    Google Scholar 

  • Honoré AM (1961) Ownership. In: Guest AG (ed) Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 107–147. Reprinted in J Inst Econ, 9(2), 2013, pp. 227–55

    Google Scholar 

  • Merrill TW, Smith HE (2007) The morality of property. William Mary Law Rev 48(5):1849–1895

    Google Scholar 

  • Milgram S (1974) Obedience to authority: an experimental view. Harper and Row/Tavistock, New York/London

    Google Scholar 

  • Mises L (1981) Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. Liberty Classics, Indianapolis. Translated from the second (1932) German edition

    Google Scholar 

  • North DC, Weingast BR (1989) Constitutions and commitment: the evolution of institutions governing public choice in seventeenth-century England. J Econ Hist 49(4):803–832

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rodgers HR, Lewis E (1974) Political support and compliance attitudes: a study of adolescents. Am Polit Q 2:61–77

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sarat A (1975) Support for the legal system. Am Polit Q 3(1):3–24

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Steiger O (ed) (2008) Property economics: property rights, Creditor’s money and the foundations of the economy. Metropolis, Marburg

    Google Scholar 

  • Tyler TR (1990) Why people obey the law. Yale University Press, New Haven

    Google Scholar 

  • Veblen TB (1898) The beginnings of ownership. Am J Sociol 4(3):352–365

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Weber M (1968) Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretative Sociology. University of California Press, Berkeley. 2 vols, translated from the German edition of 1922

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK

    Geoffrey M. Hodgson

Authors
  1. Geoffrey M. Hodgson
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Geoffrey M. Hodgson .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  2. Dept DiGSPES, Univ del Piemonte Orientale Dept DiGSPES, Alessandria, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2018 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature

About this entry

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this entry

Hodgson, G.M. (2018). Property Rights: Limits and Enhancements. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_746-1

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_746-1

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY

  • Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-7883-6

  • Online ISBN: 978-1-4614-7883-6

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Economics and FinanceReference Module Humanities and Social SciencesReference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation