Some caution about property rights as a recipe for economic development

Accounting, Economics and Law

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Kennedy, David ^a  

^a HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic development; Property law

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890853565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21522820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/2152-2820.1006     Document Type: Review

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