This collection of 22 commissioned essays from scholars across numerous fields responded to the question: What are the most fundamental things you can say concerning the interrelations between the institutions of government and property?

Nicholas Mercuro and Warren J. Samuels

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS, AN INTRODUCTION TO ESSAYS ON THE FUNDAMENTAL INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND PROPERTY, THE ORIGINS OF PROPERTY AND THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT, GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN PROPERTY OWNERSHIP: HOBBES MEETS GILLIGAN, DISAGGREGATING THE CONCEPT OF PROPERTY IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, A PROBLEM ABOUT PRIVACY, PROPERTY AND CUSTODY: DISPUTES ABOUT THE DISPOSITION OF "FROZEN EMBRYOS", PROPERTY APPROPRIATION AND THEORY OF THE FIRM, GOVERNMENT AND PROPERTY, DEMOCRACY AND MARKETS, PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THE STATE, TECHNOLOGY, LAW AND POLITICS: THE CASE OF PRODUCT STANDARDS, THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ADMINISTRATION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS: ORDER AND EFFICIENCY THE GOVERNMENT PROPERTY RELATION: CONFESSIONS OF A CLASSICAL LIBERAL, GLOBALIZATION, DECLINE OF THE NATION-STATE, AND FOUCAULT, CREDIBLE TESTAMENTS, PROPERTY, AND THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT, GOVERNMENT, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND PROPERTY: RESTRAINING THE LEGAL ECONOMIC NEXUS, PROPERTY: QUESTIONING EFFICIENCY, LIBERTY AND IMPERIALISM, WHAT GOVERNMENT CAN DO FOR PROPERTY (AND VICE VERSA), WORDS FROM A LARGELY FORGOTTEN MAN, GOVERNMENT, PROPERTY, MARKETS ...IN THAT ORDER... NOT GOVERNMENT VERSUS MARKETS, INDIVIDUALS, CHOICE AND INSTITUTIONS: AN AUSTRIAN ECONOMIC APPROACH TO THE FUNDAMENTAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND PROPERTY, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: GOVERNMENTS AND THE ALLOCATION AND USE OF PROPERTY, PROPERTY LAW AND EFFICIENT RESOURCE USE, A RETROSPECTIVE INTERPRETIVE ESSAY ON THE DIVERSE APPROACHES TO THE FUNDAMENTAL INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND PROPERTY, INDEX