Introduction: the role of economic analysis in property law -- Why should one person exclude the world? The tragedy of the commons -- Economic analysis of law -- The problem of social cost -- When does the rule of liability matter -- Property rules, liability rules and inalienability: one view of the cathedral -- A license to steal -- Who should be given the right to exclude? The welfare economics of competition and monopoly -- On the economic theory of socialism -- Capitalism and freedom -- Progress and poverty -- How is justice understood in a private property system? A. The property owner as a victim of injustice. Property, utility and fairness: comments on the ethical foundations of "just compensation" law -- Takings, private property and public rights -- B. The property owner as the perpetrator of injustice. Regulating slum housing markets on behalf of the poor: of housing codes, housing subsidies and income redistribution policy -- Economic analysis of law -- The design of a housing allowance -- How and when should the law intervene to control land use decisions by private property owners? The calculus of consent -- Equalization of municipal services: the economics of Serrano and Shaw -- Alternatives to zoning: covenants, nuisance rules and fines as land use controls -- Cities and housing -- A process of residential segregation: neighborhood tipping

1. Right of property -- United States
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