August 2015

Essays

Introduction to Spontaneous Order and Emergence of New Systems of Property
Yun-chien Chang & Richard A. Epstein

Towards a More Evolutionary Theory of Property Rights
Lee Alston & Bernardo Mueller

The Numerus Clausus Principle, Property Customs, and the Emergence of New Property Forms
Yun-chien Chang & Henry E. Smith

Invited Takings: Supermajority, Assembly Surplus, and Local Public Financing
Ruoying Chen

How Spontaneous? How Regulated?: The Evolution of Property Rights Systems
Richard A. Epstein

Slicing Spontaneity
Lee Anne Fennell

Conflicts of Entitlements in Property Law: The Complexity and Monotonicity of Rules
Georg von Wangenheim & Fernando Gomez

Pre-Modern Credit Networks and the Limits of Reputation
Emily Kadens

Endogenous First-Possession Property Rights in Open-Access Resources
Bryan Leonard & Gary D. Libecap

The Evolution of Relational Property Rights: A Case of Chinese Rural Land Reform
Shitong Qiao & Frank Upham

Contracting for Control of Landscape-Level Resources
Karen Bradshaw Schulz & Dean Lueck