The Political Economy of Property Rights Weimer Paperback 9780521180702

The Political Economy of Property RightsInstitutional Change and Credibility in the Reform of Centrally Planned Economies\nAuthor(s): David L. Weimer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521180702, 978-0521180702\nSynopsis\nOriginally published in 1997, The Political Economy of Property Rights reports on comparative research into the transformation of property rights in post-communist countries and China. Two important theoretical questions unify the contributions: what aspects of political systems give credibility to systems of property rights? What can be learned from the transformation of property rights in post-communist countries about the large-scale change of economic institutions? The contributors consider the credibility of property rights as arising from the strategic interaction of political and economic actors, and they apply this perspective and test its implications using a variety o.