Property Rights: A Practical Guide to Freedom and Prosperity (Hoover Institution Press Publication) - Softcover

Terry L. Anderson; Laura E. Huggins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817939121 ISBN 13: 9780817939120

Publisher: Hoover Institution Press, 2003

Synopsis

Drawing on the thoughts of various philosophers, political thinkers, economists, and lawyers, Terry Anderson and Laura Huggins present a blueprint for the nonexpert-expert on how societies can encourage or discourage freedom and prosperity through their property rights institutions. This Hoover Classic edition of Property Rightsdetails step-by-step what property rights are, what they do, how they evolve, how they can be protected, and how they promote freedom and prosperity.

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From the Publisher:

The idea that property rights provide the foundation for a free society has long been understood. To those who penned the Magna Carta in England, as well as to the American Founding Fathers who drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, protecting private property was of utmost importance. Today, however, property rights are being threatened by a variety of state, national, and international forces.

The U.S. Supreme Court, for example, which recently dealt property rights protection a significant setback in a case concerning property near Lake Tahoe, ruling against landowners and holding that they were not entitled to compensation for losses caused by regulatory restrictions.

Although the Tahoe case pales in comparison to some of the takings by tyrannical governments in other parts of the world, it illustrates the necessity of vigilance and of understanding the relationship between secure property rights and a free society. This book seeks to explain the crucial connection between secure property rights, freedom, and prosperity. Drawing on the thoughts of various philosophers, political thinkers, economists, and lawyers, the authors present a blueprint for the nonexpert on how societies can encourage or discourage freedom and prosperity through their property rights institutions. They detail step-by-step what property rights are, what they do, how they evolve, how they can be protected, and how they promote freedom and prosperity.

Terry L. Anderson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. The author or editor of twenty-two books, Anderson also serves as executive director of the Political Economy Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. Laura E. Huggins is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.

About the Author:

Terry Anderson, the John and Jean DeNault Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the executive director of PERC - the Property and Environment Research Center, a think tank focusing on market solutions to environmental problems located in Bozeman, Montana, and professor emeritus at Montana State University. Laura E. Huggins is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Huggins specializes in free market environmentalism, property rights, and population policy. She is primarily interested in the role of economic processes in shaping natural resource policy and in promoting market principles to a wide audience in order to help resolve environmental dilemmas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0817939121
• ISBN 13: 9780817939120
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 94