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John and Jean De Nault Task Force on Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity: Articles

January 2, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)

The Tale of How Insulin Came to Market

This inspiring story proves that medical innovation occurs in spite of, not because of, government regulators like the FDA...
November 6, 2008

The Disintegration of Intellectual Property

The title of this paper plays off the title of Thomas Grey’s well known article, The Disintegration of Property, which argued in part that the ceaseless consensual fragmentation and recombination of property rights revealed some inner incoherence of private property institutions.

November 1, 2008

Property Rights, State of Nature Theory, and Environmental Protection

Questions about property rights, their origin, and their measure have been at the forefront of serious political discourse since ancient times. Classical writers usually approached the topic from an immutable and enduring state of nature theory.

October 28, 2008

Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System, 1997-2007

What is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies?

September 1, 2008

Quanta v. LG Electronics: Frustrating Patent Deals by Taking Contracting Options Off the Table?

The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Quanta v. LG Electronics may make it significantly more difficult to structure transactions involving patents.

July 1, 2008

This Essay surveys recent developments across the fields of finance and innovation to highlight some common themes concerning the importance of property rights to economic success

This Essay surveys recent developments across the fields of finance and innovation to highlight some common themes concerning the importance of property rights to economic success.

January 1, 2008

Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile

In this paper we study the connection between employment and political control.