An Endogenous Theory of Property Rights

ISBN-13: 9780367234324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 228 str.

Peter Ho

Opis

This collection reviews property rights from China and India, to Turkey, Mexico and Malaysia, covering issues such as customary rights and privatization, mining and pastoralism, dam-building and irrigation, state-owned banks, trade unions and notaries. It was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: An endogenous theory of property rights: opening the black box of institutions Peter Ho  2. Empty institutions, non-credibility and pastoralism: China’s grazing ban, mining and ethnicity Peter Ho  3. A conditional trinity as ‘no-go’ against non-credible development? Resettlement, customary rights and Malaysia’s Kelau Dam Bin Md Saman Nor-Hisham and Peter Ho  4. Local perceptions of grassland degradation in China: a socio-anthropological reading of endogenous knowledge and institutional credibility Heng Zhao and Karlis Rokpelnis  5. Are civil-law notaries rent-seeking monopolists or essential market intermediaries? Endogenous development of a property rights institution in Mexico Paavo Monkkonen  6. A history of institutional function: Mexican notaries and wealth distribution – Yucatan, 1850–1900 Juliette Levy  7. Rethinking labour market institutions in Indian industry: forms, functions and socio-historical contexts Satoshi Miyamura  8. Credibility and class in the evolution of public banks: the case of Turkey Thomas Marois and Ali Rıza Güngen  9. Secure rights and non-credibility: the paradoxical dynamics of canal irrigation in India Peter P. Mollinga