Property Rights in Land

Rosa Congost, Jorge Gelman, Rui Santos

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781315439952
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Economia
• Subtopic: Storia economica

Property Rights in Land widens our understanding of property rights by looking through the lenses of social history and sociology, discussing mainstream theory of new institutional economics and the derived grand narrative of economic development.

As neo-institutional development theory has become a narrative in global history and political economy, the problem of promoting global development has arisen from creating the conditions for 'good' institutions to take root in the global economy and in developing societies. Written by a collection of expert authors, the chapters delve into social processes through which property relations became institutionalized and were used in social action for the appropriation of resources and rent. This was in order to gain a better understanding of the social processes intervening between the institutionalized 'rules of the game' and their economic and social outcomes.

This collection of essays is of great interest to those who study economic history, historical sociology and economic sociology, as well as Agrarian and rural history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Migration and accommodation of property rights in the Portuguese Eastern Empire, sixteenth–nineteenth centuries
• 2 Alternative uses of land and re-negotiation of property rights: Scandinavian examples, 1750–2000
• 3 Innovation in property rights and economic development in Lombardy, eighteenth–twentieth centuries
• 4 The shift to ‘modern’ and its consequences: Changes in property rights and land wealth inequality in Buenos Aires, 1839–1914
• 5 Taming the platypus: Adaptations of the colonia tenancy contract to a changing context in nineteenth-century Madeira
• 6 Demythologizing and de-idealizing the commons: Ostrom’s eight design principles and the irrigation institutions in eastern Spain
• 7 Hopes of recovery: Struggles over the right to common lands in the Spanish countryside, 1931–1936
• 8 Hurdles to reunifcation: Cultural memories and control over property in post-socialist rural East Germany
• 9 Property rights in land: Institutions, social appropriations, and socio-economic outcomes
• Index