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

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.

Type
Comment
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Millennium Economics Ltd.

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