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Property Rights 3: Communal Property, Enclosure and the State

Alex Tabarrok
Alex TabarrokGeorge Mason University

Were classic (fee-simple) property rights an unintended side-effect of government's desire to tax? We look at communal property, private property, taxation and some of James C. Scott's ideas in his book Seeing Like a State.

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