This kind of thinking was rife in the 1600s and is perhaps why the Pilgrim settlers settled for a charter which did not create a private property system.
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The sudden and wholesale destruction of the pseudo-property system for information goods is not the solution, though left unchecked that is the natural response of the transaction cost-free Internet.
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As De Soto has said, one of the biggest political challenges facing developing countries is to bring the assets of the extralegal sector into a more inclusive legal property system in which they can become more productive and generate capital for their owners.
As in China, America's property rights system grew out of what people were already doing.
Washington should also encourage Haiti to institute a formal, inclusive property rights system.
For the first time all owners who pay harbour fees on the River Hamble are being issued with forensic property marking system SmartWater.
We in developed countries take for granted the relative ease of starting a business and the existence of a uniform property rights system--you can buy a house in Idaho and get financing for it from a bank in London or Hong Kong.
In the Atlantic lobster fishery a property-based system has arisen spontaneously, says Dr Worm.
McCaw also has intellectual property rights to a system that connects low-orbit satellite systems like Iridium with midaltitude projects like ICO.
But better still, reconfigure a more effective funding system than property taxes.
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Yet equally, it is not hard to imagine that a clearer system of property rights would render hutong houses valuable propositions for private renovation.
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The bill is the final part of a series of recent legislative reforms to the system of property law in Scotland based on reports published by the Scottish Law Commission.
Like all municipalities in New Hampshire, Lincoln funds its own school system through local property taxes.
The last certificate proving that the electrical system in the property had been tested was dated 1981.
Singapore provides a persuasive model for a strong system of intellectual property rights.
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Data from China Real Estate Index System showed that property prices in 72 cities posted a decline in February compared with January, whereas prices in 27 cities rose.
New Labour MPs, with their home improvements and their little property empires use the expenses system to get away from the working classes as fast as they possibly can.
The Framers of our Constitution drew upon classical notions of legal rights and individual liberty dating back to the Justinian Code, the Magna Carta, and the Two Treatises of John Locke, all of which recognize the importance of property ownership in a governmental system in which individual liberty and the free market are paramount.
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Many dictators promote property rights and a reliable legal system out of simple pragmatism.
"In fact, I have a 14 KW system on my single property, " Ruffalo wrote in an email.
Fixing education will eventually need a reorganisation of the tax system, away from property taxes and towards an income tax.
He does business only in places with a stable government and a legal system that protects the property rights of foreigners.
Japan's recent experience offers a painful example of how a collapse in share or property prices can harm a banking system.
Microsoft claims that Google's Android operating system infringes its intellectual property rights.
Businesses need a robust system that protects intellectual property and punishes infringers.
Mr Putin and Mr Medvedev are well aware that the current system neither protects the property of the new oligarchs, nor provides a stable environment for growth.
Stopping timewasters is an important property of any complaints-handling system.
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In a market system based on private property rights and the rule of law, people are free to choose, and prices reflect relative values that consumers place on alternatives.
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"Bayer is committed to protecting its patents for Nexavar and will rigorously continue to defend our intellectual property rights within the Indian legal system, " the company said in a statement.
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