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Government Must Keep Track of Derivatives?
Regardless of what caused the crisis, government efforts to regulate derivatives will only lock in undesirable aspects of the current market and ensure that politically connected players reap artificial gains. It is absurd to ask politicians to promote financial integrity and sound accounting. They are the worst violators of these principles on the planet.
17Jun2009 | Robert P. Murphy | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Economics of Property Rights
Andrew Morriss is the inaugural H. Ross and Helen Workman Professor of Law and Professor of Business at the University of Illinois and a senior fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center. This is the second of three articles on property in America.
Property rights play a critical role in a wide range of economic [...]
Europe Meets America: Property Rights in the New World
Andrew Morriss is the H. Ross and Helen Workman Professor of Law and Professor of Business at the University of Illinois and senior fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center. This is the first of three articles on property in America.
When Europeans arrived in the Americas and began to claim the rich lands they [...]




