-Talking Heads (1988)" Law and economics" dominates contemporary legal academic
discussions of the ownership and use of land. 1 Its near hegemony in this area, however …

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is the primary tool used by policymakers to inform administrative
decisionmaking. Yet its methodology of converting preferences (often hypothetical ones) into …

Innovations in government produce positive externalities for other jurisdictions. Theory
therefore predicts that local government will tend to produce a lower than optimal amount of …

In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn
fifteen residential properties in order to transfer them to a new private owner. Although the …

Property theorists have long deemed the right to exclude as fundamental and essential for
the efficient use and allocation of property. Recently, however, proponents of the …

A foundational concept in the discourse of local government lawand federalism more
broadly-is that a mobile populace will tend to move to places that best reflect their …

When people write laws, what do they hope to accomplish? One view is that laws are written
to drive people toward moral behavior or to embody an objective ideal of what is right …

Private organizations control an increasing number of urban public spaces. New York City's
Central Park, for example, is managed by a private conservancy that counts only three …

Individuals in common pools—for example, employees in firms and citizens in a jurisdiction—
want managers of those pools to act paternalistically toward others because this lowers the …

Happiness and the law. At first glance, these two concepts seem to have little to do with each
other. To some, they may even seem diametrically opposed. Yet one of the things the law …