The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier (Stanford Economics & Finance)
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (561 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804748543 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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D. Schultz said Unbelievable - Buy it!. I don't have a lot of time to really give this review its due. However, I highly recommend this book to anyone trying to deepen their understanding of how property rights have affecteed and continue to affect our society. Hill is as gifted of a teacher as he is an . Ahistorical freemarket dogma, not history two free market fundamentalists got together to force their economic ideology onto the history of the US West. This isn't history, it's their family stories mixed with neoliberal dogma. The authors (ab)use history to make unfounded, normative assertions about how t. It's not Right or Left, it's libertarian Todd Stephens Though I don't have definitive proof, I believe this is an expansion of a research piece originally written in the late 1970's and published in The Journal of Libertarian Studies (vol 3, issue 1). The original title was "American Experiment in Anarcho-Capitalism: T
Mention of the American West usually evokes images of rough and tumble cowboys, ranchers, and outlaws. This theory is brought to life in the colorful history of Indians, fur trappers, buffalo hunters, cattle drovers, homesteaders, and miners. In contrast, The Not So Wild, Wild West casts America's frontier history in a new framework that emphasizes the creation of institutions, both formal and informal, that facilitated cooperation rather than conflict. Rather than describing the frontier as a place where heroes met villains, this book argues that everyday people helped carve out legal institutions that tamed the West.The authors emphasize that ownership of resources evolves as those resources become more
"Hollywood will never be able to top this portrayal of the history of the West in the U.S. The history that Anderson and Hill depict is the current situation of the majority of entrepreneurs in developing and former Soviet countries. It is not only an extraordinary insight into the genesis of America, but also the key to understanding better the Middle East, Central Asia, and all the Third World today."—Hernando de Soto, President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy