Political transition of agricultural properties in Poland and the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) after 1989 had to include not only Reprivatization but also the issue of returning the properties in kind to their former owners. Restitution in kind applied in GDR to all forms of ownership which were subject to expropriation between 1933 and 1989 except for properties taken over during So...

Concerns for relative performance are integrated into a model of contractual renegotiation in bilateral trade. It is shown that concerns for relative performance do never impede efficient trade. Moreover, conditional on renegotiation to occur, concerns for relative performance tend to mitigate material rent expropriation. However, concerns for relative performance make the occurrence of renegot...

Is there a trade-off between inequality and economic growth? The theory and the evidence are inconclusive. In the 1950es and 60es a prevalent view was that inequality leads to higher savings because the rich save proportionately more than the poor, and that this leads to increases the rate of investment and growth (see Kaldor (1957), Kuznets (1955)). More recently, it has been argued that inequ...

The purpose of this article is to reflect on how we can conceptualise the multiple types struggles over water. Through a historical materialist engagement with social reproduction theorists, post-colonial interventions and eco-socialism, argue that capitalist not only depends exploitation wage labour but also expropriation nature people along different forms oppression. By focusing processes in...

The aim of this paper is to assess the role of donated labour and not-for-profit (NFP) entities at the public private interface. After discussing what a NFP enterprise is and providing general background, we look at the underlying theory of NFP institutions. The fact that NFP companies are able to precommit themselves not to expropriate donated labour is identified as a primary justification of...