http://www.catocampus.org/tag info@catocampus.org http://www.pjdoland.com/chai/?v=0.1 http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/545.html By Karol Boudreaux and Paul Aligica: "The study finds that the “easy option” of agencies entering less-developed countries and using blueprints to try to recreate institutions in Africa that work effectively in the West often fails miserably. Indeed, the failures of such approaches can give the whole privatisation and property rights process, vital for sustainable economic growth, a bad name." 739@http://www.catocampus.org Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:24:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/545.html Reason.tv host Drew Carey visits National City, California, where the local government is taking eminent domain abuse to new lows. 681@http://www.catocampus.org Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:16:00 EST http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/545.html By James Dorn: "China's present leaders are calling for a "harmonious society", but this is impossible without widespread freedom and a rule of law that limits the power of government to the protection of people and property. " 474@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:22:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/545.html This comprehensive report, prepared by the Institute for Justice and senior attorney Dana Berliner, carefully catalogues the extent of the problem of eminent domain abuse. It illustrates how municipal good intention, often for urban redevelopment or economic promise, can be unfairly built upon the rightful ownership of others. When projects are carried out heavy-handedly and unnecessarily, not through voluntary transaction, but coercion, the protection of property is eroded and our bedrock freedom to decide upon our own course is worn away. 278@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/545.html David Schmidtz discusses the institutional history of property as the right to exclude others from using one's possession. 300@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/545.html By Peter C. Perdue: By looking at how China's Qing dynasty handled several cases of land settlement in the eighteenth century, Peter C. Perdue shows that the state did respect private property rights, but it intervened to change rights to land for political and economic purposes. 295@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/545.html Experience shows that Common Law and Private Property Rights can be an alternative to top-down regulation on air pollution. In this essay, Christine Meisner Rosen examines nuisance law "from the perspective of an environmental historian who is interested in how people made sense of industrial pollution problems in the past." 289@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT http://catocampus.pjdoland.com/tag/show/545.html By Donald R. Leal: "Community-Run Fisheries: Avoiding the "Tragedy of the Commons" presents case after case of communities that have effectively protected their fishing territories and preserved fish for the future." 279@http://www.catocampus.org Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT