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Where lies the bundle of sticks? A comment on Bart Wilson's ‘The Primacy of Property’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2023

Walter Thurman
Walter Thurman*
Affiliation:
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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Corresponding author. Email: wally_thurman@ncsu.edu
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Abstract

‘The Primacy of Property’ is a deep discussion of property as an evolved institution and should stimulate useful discussion of how property rights and transaction costs economists should ply their trade.

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Propertyproperty rights

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Journal of Institutional Economics , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , April 2023 , pp. 285 - 287
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Millennium Economics Ltd.

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