Environmental issues are fundamentally property rights issues. This volume provides an overview of property rights and the environment and extends the research frontier on numerous ownership issues. From a study of community efforts to solve the problem of the commons to lessons from experimental economics, the authors discuss a wide range of theoretical and empirical issues. Common law rules, federal land privatization, the Endangered Species Act, and the role of a constitution in protecting private property are considered.
CONTRIBUTORS: Terry Anderson Donald Boudreaux Elizabeth Brubaker William Carney Louis De Alessi Richard Epstein Donald Leal Roger Meiners Seth Norton Vernon Smith Richard Wagner Bruce Yandle
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 800-462-6420 www.rowmanlittlefield.com 1998; 353 pages.
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