there are many indices for measuring property rights (pr) security. they may be classified into two groups: subjective proxies and objective proxies. most of the proxies are subjective. one contribution of this paper is introducing a new approach for measuring government expenditures devoted to pr protection. calculating physical capital within the introduced new approach is another contributio...

this paper discusses the study of community’s preferences for biodiversity conservation management institution which may motivate them to support conservation efforts in the okwangwo division of the cross river national park, nigeria. the empirical data was generated from personal interviews and factors influencing the respondents’ choice were examined with the aid of multinomial logit mode...

This article responds to papers by Joseph Bowen, Simon May, Zofia Stemplowska, and Nick Sage, focused on my monograph, Human Rights, Ownership, the Individual (OUP, 2019). The book develops a new account of nature rights: as duties governed ‘addressive’ norms first- second-personal thinking. has implications for both human rights property rights. It implies that in law should be founded pre-leg...

Abstract Bart Wilson argues that property is based on custom, not rights. (2022) further for the primacy of over Wilson's research, including recent book, The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and Human Mind (2020), a significant arguably pathbreaking contribution to vast literature It also falls into trap economic arguments unnecessarily devalue legal I ague we can all agree ideas about are alway...

development of technology and communications, especially emergence of the internet as well as states’ inclination to achieve a harmonized protection of intellectual property rights in international level in the last three decades, have brought a new perspectives on international jurisdiction and recognition and enforcement of judgments in the field of intellectual property rights. the most impo...

Economists have used the mechanism of interjurisdictional competition to explain how decentralization affects the degree of property rights protection. This fails however to account for another significant question: In China, can the local decentralization from the provincial level to the prefectural (county) level be more effective in protecting the private property rights of investors, especi...

This paper develops a model of technology transfer in an environment where Þrms in developing countries are unable to recover the costs of imitation and adaptation, because a competitive market structure in the South rules out any monopoly rents accruing to Southern Þrms. In such an environment, the technology transfer must be initiated by a Northern Þrm which risks its technology being copied ...