Power is not rights: Economic versus legal property rights in neo-institutional economics
Published online on November 28, 2025
Abstract
Planning Theory, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 129-147, May 2026.
As a novel contribution to the application of economic concepts of property rights to resource management as a fundamental planning issue, this paper analyses the dichotomy (the Barzel thesis) between “economic property rights” and “legal property rights”...
As a novel contribution to the application of economic concepts of property rights to resource management as a fundamental planning issue, this paper analyses the dichotomy (the Barzel thesis) between “economic property rights” and “legal property rights”...