This is a study of the way individuals organise the use of resources in order to maximise the value of their economic rights over these resources.

This book addresses a puzzle in political economy: why is it that political instability does not necessarily translate into economic stagnation or collapse? In

A 1997 investigation of the transformation of property rights in post-communist countries and China.

The histories of rights to minerals, range, timber land, fishery and crude oil production in the U.S. are examined to reveal the problems encountered in negotia

Following the end of World War II in 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spent the next three decades carrying out agrarian reform among nearly one-third of