Great Property Fallacy - Theory, Reality, and Growth in Developing Countries

Explains the role of property law in growth and development over five centuries and across several different countries and cultures.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Physics envy: property rights in development theory; 3. Property and markets: England and America; 4. Property and politics: Japan; 5. Law and development without the law part: China; 6. Theory in action: Cambodia; 7. Property rights and social change.

About the author

Frank K. Upham is the Wilf Family Professor of Property Law at New York University School of Law. He teaches Property, Law and Development and various courses on Japanese and Chinese law and society. His book, Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan (1987), won the Thomas J. Wilson Prize from Harvard University Press. In addition to having taught property law for over 30 years at several American law schools, he has taught in Argentina, China, Israel, Japan, and Taiwan. Upham has also worked as a World Bank consultant on the reform of property law in Southeast Asia.

Summary

The Great Property Fallacy is for anyone interested in the role of legal institutions, and specifically property rights in economic, social, and political development - whether in Western history or contemporary developing countries. This book analyzes how rich countries and international institutions can (and cannot) help the rest of the world develop.

Product details

• Authors: Frank K. Upham, Upham Frank K.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781108436946
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43694-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; LAW / Property, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Developing Countries, comparative law, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Property law: general, Global South / Developing countries, property law