The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier by Anderson, Terry L.
The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier by Anderson, Terry L.

The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier

Mention of the American West usually evokes images of rough and tumble cowboys, ranchers, and outlaws. In...
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Author: Terry L. Anderson
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The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier by Anderson, Terry L.

The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier

$82.83
The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier by Anderson, Terry L.

The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier

$82.83
Author: Terry L. Anderson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Mention of the American West usually evokes images of rough and tumble cowboys, ranchers, and outlaws. 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 valuable or as establishing property rights becomes less costly. Rules evolving at the local level will be more effective because local people have a greater stake in the outcome. This theory is brought to life in the colorful history of Indians, fur trappers, buffalo hunters, cattle drovers, homesteaders, and miners. The book concludes with a chapter that takes lessons from the American frontier and applies them to our modern frontiers--the environment, developing countries, and space exploration.



Author: Terry L. Anderson, Peter J. Hill
Publisher: Stanford Economics and Finance
Published: 05/04/2004
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780804748544


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2004 pg. 531

About the Author
Terry L. Anderson is Executive Director of PERC, the Center for Free Market Environmentalism; Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; and Professor Emeritus at Montana State University. He has published 28 books. P. J. Hill is Professor of Economics at Wheaton College, Illinois, and a PERC Senior Associate. This is his eleventh book.
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