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transactions costs and property rights

I'm using Barzel's book , along with a number of other books and professional journal articles, to develop a conceptual framework for understanding the current back-door privatization of a massiv e portion of New Zealand's South Isalnd High Country. I suspect only economists with a strong interest in property rights theory analyzed from the perspective of modern institutional economics will like this book. It's not for the average reader who isn't willing to do some hard slogging to understand key theoretical ideas. But there are few who can match Barzel's understanding of the development of "enforcement" or "governance" institutions that both facilitate - and limit - the potential gains for specialization and exchange that neoclassical economics takes for granted. <br />Dr John Fountain <br />Senior lecturer in economics <br />University of Cantebrury, New Zealand05210006452252006-03-27

Theory-based fantasy

If you like the fantasy models of economists who know virtually nothing of non-capitalist economies or pre-state societies, this book is for you. If you are interested in actual information (empirical data) on what the earliest states were like, how their economies worked, and how they might have developed, then try some of these works instead: <br /> <br />--- Earle, Timothy (2002) Bronze Age Economics: The Beginnings of Political Economies. Westview Press, Boulder, CO. <br />--- Feinman, Gary M. and Joyce Marcus (editors) (1998) Archaic States. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, NM. <br />--- Hansen, Mogens Herman (editor) (2000) A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen. <br />--- Johnson, Allen W. and Timothy K. Earle (2000) The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State. 2nd ed. Stanford University Press, Stanford. <br />--- Smith, Adam T. (2003) The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities. University of California Press, Berkeley. <br />--- Smith, Michael E. (2004) The Archaeology of Ancient State Economies. Annual Review of Anthropology 33:73-102. <br />--- Trigger, Bruce G. (2003) Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study. Cambridge University Press, New York.This book models the emergence and evolution of the rule-of-law state. The protector or ruler is assumed to be self-seeking. Individuals will install a protector only after they create institutions to control him. Organized protection engenders legal institutions that enforce rights. A "state of nature" then gradually turns into a rule-of-law state. Individuals employ both the state and other third parties for enforcement. The fraction of agreements that the state enforces determines its scope. Rule-of-law states encourage market transactions and standards that facilitate trade. The larger the domain of the state's ultimate enforcer, the greater the advantage of scale economies to contracting. 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WangC.H. LiaoDigitalHTMLElsevierEnglish1095USD$10.95Elsevier22Book2006-07-01ElsevierElsevier1095USD$10.95100011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewnewSbF8FYMSRm7XC71LeeVQTQI79liIOrxKM%2FmQYyHQXalPpjehzFAcuDAD819TFj4k5biaT%2F6iRHQpoJc9RYm%2BAw%3D%3D1095USD$10.95Available for download nowThis digital document is a journal article from Transportation Research Part E, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.<BR><BR><STRONG>Description:</STRONG><BR> This paper studies the multi-product cost structure and productivity growth of the Taiwan Railway through the period 1991-2000. 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