Essays Tagged: "Property"

Distributive Justice

tribute to society in order to receive a subsistence income. Finally, the Individual view holds the property rights of the individual to be sacred: no one may forcibly deprive him of his goods. I will ... f his goods. I will argue for the last alternative.Individualism is an extension of Locke's idea of property rights. An Individualist believes each person owns his own life, the fruits of his labor, a ...

(3 pages) 99 0 4.2 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Anthropology by Morgan and Wolf

While Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines property as 'something regarded as being possessed by, or at the disposal of, a person or group of p ... n hardly holds the connotations so emphatically discussed by the anthropologist Morgan. To Morgan, 'property has been so immense...so diversified its uses so expanding...that it has become...an unmana ... question with the simple answer that it is due to the linear evolution of the social institution of property from being collectively owned to being individually owned which has planted the seed of its ...

(11 pages) 128 0 4.2 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

Economic Thought and Development: Institutional Theories.

Does it help decision-makers in poorly performing economies to know that secure property rights are a key feature of successful late developers?The Inherence trapAn approach to the ... key feature of successful late developers?The Inherence trapAn approach to the interrelation: state-property rights-development"One cannot develop a useful analysis of the state divorced from property ... in human exchange. In regard of institutions that enforce trust, North gives particular emphasis to property rights. This paper intends to approach the nature of property rights and the inherent role ...

(6 pages) 172 0 3.5 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies

Comparison and Contrast Essay Buying or Renting Compare and contrast the two topics in under 450 words

our contract is up they can up the rates, and there is nothing you can do because you don't own the property. The most important thing is that you have the mobility to move when you like.I think it is ...

(2 pages) 539 0 4.7 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Comparative Essays

Explain the distinction between transaction costs and other costs that occur in economic systems.

se, change, and so on of institutions and organizations.... When considered in relation to existing property and contract rights, transaction costs consist of the costs of defining and measuring resou ... plus the costs of utilizing and enforcing the rights specified. Applied to the transfer of existing property rights and the establishment or transfer of contract rights between individuals (or legal e ...

(10 pages) 279 0 4.9 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

Business Plan: ABConveyancing Note: Financial Sections are incomplete and Appendixes Missing.

e and growing rapidly. The current trends in the market make it an ideal time for selling or buying property and when this happens conveyancing must be done.There is a current need for Conveyancing so ...

(18 pages) 104 0 4.8 Aug/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Solutions and summary to chapter 3 of MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS AND ORGANIZATIONAL ARCHITECTURE, Brickley, Smith & Zimmerman.

there is an efficient allocation of resources, all members are equal. In Pareto some are better off.Property Rights and Exchange in a Market EconomyProperty Right: legally enforced right to select the ... market is more powerful in producing efficient results than had been thought previously. As long as property rights can be traded, there is an incentive to rearrange these rights to enhance economic e ...

(10 pages) 89 0 3.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

John Locke: The role of Private Property In one's Life.

e Second Treatise of Government by John Locke written in 1690, he writes about the right to private property. In chapter V which is titled "Of Property" he tells how the right to private property orig ... ed, the role it plays in the state of nature, the limitations that are set on the rights of private property, the role the invention of money played in property rights and the role property rights pla ...

(7 pages) 113 1 4.3 Feb/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights

Vandalism as a Negative Deviance

ary defines "vandalism" as the "willful or malicious destruction or defacement of public or private property." Here we note that there are two major acts which characterize vandalism: destruction or t ... es, and defacement or the spoiling of the appearance of any surface area.The destruction of private property as a negative deviance may have already been treated as such as early as the birth of the s ...

(3 pages) 27 0 0.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Geography

(2 pages) 1016 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

John Locke : What is Private Property?

What is private property? Private property is the ownership of the property by an individual. As referred by John Lo ... bour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his? (section 27, p. 19): the property becomes private when a man adds his labor or his work to it. This implication of his labor ... en a man adds his labor or his work to it. This implication of his labor gives him the right of the property; in other words labor makes it ?Private Property?.Locke uses his labor theory to connect th ...

(3 pages) 22 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Two Treatises of Government: The State of Nature and Property

John Locke's work about the two treatises of government is essential for the understanding of property and the state of nature. In the second treatise, Locke describes a theory of liberal politi ... reatise, Locke describes a theory of liberal political government based on the purity of individual property and the state of nature. In Locke's state of nature, no person has any type of control over ...

(6 pages) 25 0 0.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Using Property Rights and Fairness to Argue Against Insider Trading

Using Property Rights and Fairness to Argue Against Insider TradingHenry G. Manne in Insider Trading and P ... formation.Stephen Bainbridge, in his Regulate Insider Trading essay in Capitalism Magazine believes property rights to information is more efficiently placed in the corporation than in the individual. ... pitalism Magazine. Retrieved from the Internet February 2, 2007.Henry G. Manne, Insider Trading and Property Rights in New InformationThe Cato Institute. Retrieved from the Internet February 2, 2007.

(1 pages) 21 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Assignment Real and Intellectual Property Law Briefs

Real and Intellectual Property � PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT �1� Real and Intellectual PropertyMGT255Jeff Wei ... 33;1� Real and Intellectual PropertyMGT255Jeff WeigelApril 3, 2009Whether a person owns real property or is the inventor of an intellectual property the property in question can and should be s ... can and should be safeguarded. Each individual may claim exclusive rights to either form of hi/her property. Because real property is tangible and intellectual property is intangible each property su ...

(7 pages) 45 0 3.0 May/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers