The Technology of Property Right describes the influence of technology and technological change on the definition and enforcement of property rights. In a historical context, barbed wire provides the quintessential example of how technology can lower the cost of defining and enforcing property rights. This book provides more modern examples for fisheries, whales, water quantity, and various pollutants which affect air and water quality.
The Technology of Property Rights
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P.J. Hill- Senior Fellow
P.J. Hill is a senior fellow at PERC, a professor emeritus of economics at Wheaton College, and a third-generation Montana cattle rancher.
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Terry AndersonTerry L. Anderson is the former president and executive director of PERC, and the John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
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