Economic analysis of property rights / Yoram Barzel.
"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. Property rights and all forms of organisation result from people's deliberate actions. In the tradition of Coase, this study offers a unified...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Political economy of institutions and decisions.
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| Summary: | "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. Property rights and all forms of organisation result from people's deliberate actions. In the tradition of Coase, this study offers a unified theoretical structure to deal with exchange, rights formation and organisation which traditional economic theory assumes away. A person's economic property rights over an asset are defined here as the person's ability to gain from the asset by direct consumption or by exchange. It is prohibitively costly to measure accurately all assets' attributes; therefore, rights to them are never fully delineated. Property is consequently in danger of appropriation by others. Individuals enhance their rights by such actions as the protection and better delineation of their assets. In this new edition, Professor Barzel introduces the central role of equity capital as a guarantor of the activities of the firm and elaborates on the distinction between economic rights and legal rights."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 161 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-157) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521592755 9780521592758 0521597137 9780521597135 0521364094 9780521364096 0521367042 9780521367042 |