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The Basle rules on capital requirements and the World Trade Organization’s rules on subsidies, intellectual property, and investment measures typify this kind of overreaching.
But property prices have risen faster than wages and profits in manufacturing, causing the return on capital for a select few real-estate owners to grow faster than China’s GDP.
And local governments’ effort to finance development by selling land to investors at artificially low prices has spurred massive investment in real-estate development, causing property prices to rise at unsustainably high rates.
But the transition must be handled carefully to ensure that property prices do not plummet, which would increase the ratio of non-performing loans – and possibly even trigger a major financial crisis.
The ensuing property bubble resulted in white elephants in Dublin’s financial district, row upon row of new blocks of flats in the middle of nowhere, and a mountain of mortgage debt.
ASI’s profits stem from Apple’s intellectual property (IP) rights, which are based on research and development conducted exclusively in the US (most of it underpinned by federal government funding).
The obvious conclusion that even ordinary Russians are drawing is that neither property rights nor people are safe.
Countries like Botswana that have accountable governments, respect for the rule of law, established property rights, and independent judiciaries fare far better than their counterparts.
The Land Law, although it is not very different from the forgotten one on the books for 40 years, is still portrayed as creating conditions that will starve investment in agriculture and cattle farming and marks a direct assault on private property.
They also require much more active management of, and communication about, a company’s unused intellectual property (IP).
At present, robots are mere items of property.
The history of our relations with the only nonhuman sentient beings we have encountered so far – animals – gives no ground for confidence that we would recognize sentient robots not just as items of property, but as beings with moral standing and interests that deserve consideration.
For example, cost-benefit analyses of proposed infrastructure projects that rely on market metrics such as wage rates or property prices to assess potential benefits will create ever-increasing investment around London, and a vicious circle of apparently decreasingly attractive investment in the UK’s north.
The Moscow elite - economic and political - supported by a large but not overwhelming layer of regional elites, which benefited mightily from "stakhanov" style shock privatization, wants stability and fears most of all a fight over a renewed redistribution of property.
Russia, it must be noted, has undergone one of the greatest property redistributions in human history over the last five years.
They say that democracy is not merely the vote; that without a secure private property regime, democracy is nullity.
Officials worried that banks had been lending too freely to property developers and large state-owned enterprises (which in many cases are one and the same).
Similarly, worries about property prices drove the PBOC’s abrupt change of course.
Twelve European Union countries currently have or are implementing similar special tax regimes, or “patent boxes," for income from intellectual property, which is taxed at rates of 5-15%.
Furthermore, while non-US companies can take advantage of the generous patent boxes in 12 EU countries, US companies would be subject to the much higher minimum rate, undermining their ability both to compete in these markets and to acquire foreign companies with desirable intellectual property.
They would instead become more attractive targets for foreign acquirers and would have even stronger incentives to move their headquarters, R&D, and future intellectual property to lower-tax jurisdictions with territorial systems.
When Western media sought quotes from the women, they frequently heard a Western-style feminist refrain: “These laws would make women into a kind of property.”
In the West, the counterpoint to the notion of woman as property has been a highly individualistic demand for personal autonomy – decision-making based primarily on a woman’s own wishes, rather than as wife, mother, community member, or worshipper.
Feeding a girl is seen as effectively looking after someone else’s property.
And his 1960 paper “The Problem of Social Cost” proposed that the state could manage the negative externalities, such as pollution or traffic, of economic activities through well-defined property rights.
But, as recent revelations about purveyors of shell companies or bribery by intermediaries demonstrate, much of the real leverage is to be found at home – in the domestic financial and property industries, in public relations and law firms that burnish kleptocrats’ images, and in universities that educate corrupt officials’ children and solicit their donations.
Supervisors make decisions that, in effect, have an impact on private financial returns and property rights.
That means investing in infrastructure (including digital) and education, enforcing land registration and property rights, and supporting research to preserve scarce resources, combat climate change, and improve sustainability and resilience to shocks.
Sweeping emergency regulations remain in place, arming the security forces with expansive powers of search, arrest, and seizure of property.
Politically connected businessmen, such as the Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim or LUKoil president Vagit Alekperov, used their influence to make fortunes through resource extraction, state-protected monopolies, or privatization of government property.
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