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The Anticommons And The Problem Of Numerus Clausus Of Property Rights, Enrico Baffi
The Anticommons And The Problem Of Numerus Clausus Of Property Rights, Enrico Baffi
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In the academic literature there the idea that revolutionary French lawmakers wanted to encourage the circulation of goods by limiting the possibility of creating property rights, thus reacting to the risk that the high transaction costs necessary to make several people reach an agreement would compromise the transfer of goods to a different use (and to a different owner). The so-called "theory of the anticommons" is the legal and economic development of this idea. But law and economics in recent years have led to the identification of further explanations, in terms of economic efficiency, of the principle of the numerus …