Fundamental Interrelationships between Government and Property

<p>This collection of 22 commissioned essays from scholars across numerous fields responded to the question: What are the most fundamental things you can say concerning the interrelations between the institutions of government and property? Contributing authors were asked to address this question in a positive analysis and that their essay penetrate to the deepest (most fundamental) levels of property-government organization. Their contributions are illuminating.</p> <p>1. An introduction to essays on the fundamental interrelationships between government and property <em>W.J. Samuels </em>2. The origins of property and the powers of government <em>R. Adelstein </em>3. Government's role in property ownership: Hobbes Meets Gilligan <em>D. Anderson </em>4. Disaggregating the concept of property in constitutional law <em>C.E. Baker </em>5. A problem about privacy, property and custody: disputes about the disposition of "Frozen Embryos" <em>S. Brophy, D.E. Edlin </em>6. Property appropriation and theory of the firm <em>D. Ellerman </em>7. Government and property, democracy and markets <em>L.A. Halper </em>8. Private property and the state <em>H. Hovenkamp </em>9. Technology, law and politics: the case of product standards <em>S. Krislov</em> 10. The interplay between the public and private administration of property rights: order and efficiency <em>S.T. Lowry </em>11. The government-property relation: confessions of a classical liberal <em>S.G. Medema </em>12. Globalization, decline of the nation-state, and Foucault <em>G. Minda </em>13. Credible testaments, property, and the role of government <em>B.M. Mitnick </em>14. Government, civil society, and property: restraining the legal-economic Nexus <em>L.S. Moss </em>15. Property: questioning efficiency, liberty and imperialism <em>P.B. Potter </em>16. What government can do for property (and Vice Versa) <em>C.M. Rose </em>17. Words from a largely forgotten man <em>J.H. Schlegel </em>18. Government, property, markets? in that order? not government versus markets <em>A.A. Schmid </em>19. Individuals, choice and institutions: an Austrian economic approach to the fundamental relationship between government and property <em>L.A. Schwartzstein </em>20. Environmental protection: governments and the allocation and use of property <em>K. Segerson</em><br>21. Property law and efficient resource use <em>T.S. Ulen </em>22. A retrospective interpretive essay on the diverse approaches to the fundamental interrelationships between government and property <em>N. Mercuro, W.J. Samuels</em></p>