.... The ensuing shifts in the delegation of power to institutions and expert communities, and the reorganization of property rights, altered the structure, conduct, and consequences of world markets. Governance Schelling Thomas ITU ICANN IETF WTO European Union World Wide Web Consortium Federal...

... in the future. There are a number of issues not explicitly addressed in the book because of its domestic institutionalist focus, including international treaties on intellectual property rights. The chapter concludes with some suggestions on how these future research agendas might be integrated with existing...

...This chapter examines the challenges faced by academic libraries and archives as e-Research and digital scholarship mature. In particular, it discusses the tensions between open access and intellectual property rights, the way informal scholarly communications are increasingly being made public...

... of political reform. Second, although it asks the right question about political discretion, the inappropriate definition of political reform leads it to the wrong conclusion. Third, though much is wrong with the system of property rights in China, looking for a system of such rights as exists in the West has...

... that the investment incentives of a foreign direct investor depend on a number of factors which include the discount rate of the host government. This chapter also identifies the factors that influence the importation of capital which include higher-quality property rights and a lesser ability for the bandit...

...Zev Trachtenberg challenges standard readings that John Locke sanctions the more or less unlimited exploitation of nature and a very strong conception of property rights. Though Locke should not be called a proto-environmentalist, he offers a theory of sustainable habitation, not exploitation...

... property rights regimes to coastal states. Ideational interaction also occurs as property rights ideas begin receiving consideration in RFMOs. National Continued waves of domestic fisheries legislation and policy reforms. Variation persists, but ITQ programs continue to proliferate. Support...

...This chapter is part of the general literature on insecure property rights and their consequences for economic efficiency. The literature points out that there are other modes of expropriation or partial expropriation beyond merely taking over the firm. Sharp rises in taxation play this role...

...Modern economics has largely ignored the issue of outright conflict as an alternative way of allocating goods, assuming instead the existence of well-defined property rights enforced by an undefined third party. And yet even in ostensibly peaceful market transactions, conflict exists as an outside...

... the ability of environmentalists, among others, to respond coherently to challenges from property rights advocates who appeal to the so-called “takings clause” of the US Constitution to disembed land and land-use from social and ecological practice. In this chapter an alternative concept is advanced...

...We develop a theory of the ownership of firms in an environment without secure property rights against state encroachment. "Private ownership" leads to excessive revenue hiding and "state ownership" (i.e., national government ownership) fails to provide incentives for managers and local governments...

... the difficulty of developing countries in keeping abreast of intellectual property policymaking. The chapter also considers issues concerning the setting of intellectual property rights-related norms in the global economy and the emerging alternatives for developing-country agriculture. Biodiversity...

... approach to distribution focuses more on modifying the length and nature of evolving property rights as embedded in patent and copyright law. allocation policy applied economic policy complexity economics complexity theory distribution policy economic policy engineering formation policy patent...

... Science Diagnostic Mammography National Database eDiaMoND Funding Grid computing Images Information Intellectual property rights IPRs Legal issues Open access Ownership issues Piper Tina Research Security Technology United Kingdom Vaver David Copyright Privacy e-science soft...

... on strict and expansive intellectual property rules has been initiated by the industrialized countries and their industries and does not cater to the needs of non-dominant actors, particularly developing countries. After providing an overview of intellectual property rights, capacity building...

...This chapter discusses the global public good purchase (GPGP), an alternative approach for the controlling of greenhouse gas emissions. It begins with reminders of some lessons of basic economics, focusing on property rights to solve problems of coordination. It then describes the elements...