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A central aspect of globalization is the careful documentation of the knowledge and legal tools needed to combine the property rights of seemingly useless single assets (electronic parts, legal rights to production, and so on) into complex wholes (an iPhone), and appropriate the surplus value they generate.
Clear and accessible ledgers that faithfully describe not only who controls what and where, but also the rules governing potential combinations – of, say, collateral, components, producers, entrepreneurs, and legal and property rights – are vital for the system to function.
In 1978, Proposition 13 capped California property taxes – the main source of public-school funding.
“Security of property and tolerable administration of justice,” as Smith put it.
Moreover, Chinese GDP growth, while welcome, is being fueled largely by a combination of fast-rising debt and widespread property bubbles.
And Greece has just voted for a new property tax to help close its yawning fiscal deficit.
Widespread social resistance to creditors’ claims on debtors’ property for non-payment has meant that “foreclosure” has rarely been carried to extremes.
Second, a market economy needs strong political and legal institutions to protect property rights and competition.
But, because privatization took place before corruption was rooted out, it involved substantial abuses, which undermined popular support for private property.
While the state is involved in much economic activity and property rights are frequently contested, private property is nevertheless firmly established.
As a result, the country has increasingly been focusing on the so-called “killer apps” that, according to the historian Niall Ferguson, drove the West’s rise to economic dominance: competition, science, property, modern medicine, consumerism, and an ethic of hard work.
Houses in the AirOver the past six months, attention and worry have shifted from America’s enormous trade deficit to its surging property markets and real-estate bubble.
Getting Prices RightHONG KONG – Building and maintaining the infrastructure of property rights – the rules, laws, registers, and administrative and judicial structures that define, protect, and enforce such rights and regulate economic transactions – has traditionally been the responsibility of national governments.
It would certainly help if the EU promised substantial development funds, including for resolution of property issues, once an agreement is in place.
A candidate may promise more anti-dumping actions against Chinese goods, vow to press harder on China to change its exchange rate regime, or sharpen criticism of China's weak enforcement of intellectual property rights; but over-protectionism may make a candidate look irresponsible in 2004.
After all, people who fear losing their jobs may seek greater economic security by investing in real property in their own wealthy country, bidding up prices in the process.
This is why Donald Trump, the uncouth property developer with a huge chip on his shoulder, is their hero.
Two bubbles – property and credit – enabled a decade of excessive consumption.
Finally, countries should revisit restrictions on foreign ownership and strengthen intellectual property laws to protect entrepreneurs’ hard-won innovations.
The conflict phase of codependency frames it as a zero-sum battle: US allegations of Chinese intellectual property theft are portrayed by the Trump administration as nothing less than an existential threat to America’s economic future.
Property rights, contract enforcement, entrepreneurial conditions, and free and competitive product and labor markets were proclaimed to be part of the economic framework – a misconception recently restated by the former World Bank economist and current development pundit William Easterly.
China’s credit tsunami is financing investment in steel and property, sectors already burdened by massive excess capacity.
In some countries, women still have limited property rights compared to men; in others, husbands have the right to forbid their wives from working.
By exploiting a record credit bubble to borrow against an unprecedented property bubble, American consumers spent well beyond their means for many years.
The military task force deployed to the area is still in place, and civil-society groups have accused soldiers of pillaging private property, raping women, and shooting innocent citizens.
The always-prickly issues of investment and intellectual property should be a part of any new deal; but, with the US absent, some of the more controversial rules that North American businesses have lobbied for could now be excluded.
Relatively young small countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East can also benefit by examining the secrets of Singapore’s success, the causes and effects of Ireland’s property bubble, and Denmark’s decision to build strong counter-terrorism capabilities, despite its relative safety.
And our estimate does not include any of the costs implied by the enormous loss of life and property in Iraq itself.
And yet, while Mexico has relatively strong formal land and property rights for indigenous peoples and local communities, those rights have yet to be integrated with other regulations – hindering any kind of economic development.
He is robbed of his property by the corrupt mayor, who is paid by the Orthodox Church for the right to build a new church on Nikolay’s land.
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