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The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier, by Terry Anderson & Peter Hill of the Property & Environmental Research Center was recently awarded the Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award, given by the Atlas Foundation "to publications deemed to have made the greatest contributions to public understanding of the free society."
PERC says:
Their book – the product of years of research – explores the role of property rights and self-government in the development of the western United States. It reveals that the famed violence of the “Wild West” is an exaggeration. People living on the frontier – whether Indians, cowboys, miners, or settlers – found that it was generally in their self-interest to cooperate peacefully with one another.
The [book] has been receiving favorable reviews. John Blundell, in a forthcoming review in the British journal Economic Affairs, says: “Read it and you will see the world around you very differently and you will read history through a new set of eye glasses.” He calls the book a “treasure trove of wonderful stories” and a book that “challenges conventional wisdom and challenges us all with its rigorous application of freely transferable property rights.” Notes:
* I had always assumed it was "yippee, yippee, yay," but I bow to the superior lexicography of the Mudcat Café.
** Lest this be regarded as irrelevant to IP, I am drafting a paper called Setting Standards on the Cyberspace Frontier that commences with a reference to Anderson & Hill. Also, see this earlier discussion.
posted by James DeLong @ 3:46 PM | Markets: Business, Investment & Innovation
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