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Toward a Theory of Property Rights

In: Classic Papers in Natural Resource Economics

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  • Harold Demsetz

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When a transaction is concluded in the marketplace, two bundles of property rights are exchanged. A bundle of rights often attaches to a physical commodity or service, but it is the value of the rights that determines the value of what is exchanged. Questions addressed to the emergence and mix of the components of the bundle of rights are prior to those commonly asked by economists. Economists usually take the bundle of property rights as a datum and ask for an explanation of the forces determining the price and the number of units of a good to which these rights attach.

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  • Harold Demsetz, 1974. "Toward a Theory of Property Rights," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Chennat Gopalakrishnan (ed.), Classic Papers in Natural Resource Economics, chapter 8, pages 163-177, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52321-0_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523210_9
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