Among Richard Epstein’s influential contributions to legal scholarship over the years is his writing on common-law intellectual property. In it, we see attempt meld innate logic of common law’s conceptual structure with realities modern information economy. Common-law property refers different judge-made causes action that create forms exclusive rights and privileges in intangibles, interferenc...

this paper gives an account of the implementation of geomorphological, hydrogeological, hydrochemical and isotopic techniques to understand groundwater-surface water interactions in a multiple use area, los padres-la brava corridor (se of buenos aires province, argentina). the isophreatic map reveals a regional flow from the sw to ne sector, and allowed us to define the effluent-influent behavi...

First-best pricing or assignment of property rights for rival and nonexcludable goods is often infeasible. In a second-best setting where the social planner cannot limit total use, we show common-property resources can be over or under-consumed. This depends on whether the external benefits of reallocating users to less congested goods outweigh the additional costs imposed by new entrants. Impo...