Private property rights do not conflict with human rights. They are human rights. Private property rights are the rights of humans to use specified goods and to exchange them. Any restraint on private property rights shifts the balance of power from impersonal attributes toward personal attributes and toward behavior that political authorities approve. That is a fundamental reason for preference of a system of strong private property rights: private property rights protect individual liberty. Armen A. Alchian is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Most of his major scientific contributions are in the economics of property rights. Which of the following are a violation of a person's property rights: 900 Government using eminent domain laws to force the sale of property Zoning laws which prevent commercial buildings to be built in residential neighborhoods Regulations which prevent loud exhausts on automobiles Affordable housing laws which require apartment owners to rent 10% of their apartments to low income renters A 2% annual property tax on your house Rent control laws which prevent landlords from raising rents

Private property rights do not conflict with human rights. They are human rights. Private property rights are the rights of humans to use specified goods and to exchange them. Any restraint on private property rights shifts the balance of power from impersonal attributes toward personal attributes and toward behavior that political authorities approve. That is a fundamental reason for preference of a system of strong private property rights: private property rights protect individual liberty. Armen A. Alchian is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Most of his major scientific contributions are in the economics of property rights. Which of the following are a violation of a person's property rights: 900 Government using eminent domain laws to force the sale of property Zoning laws which prevent commercial buildings to be built in residential neighborhoods Regulations which prevent loud exhausts on automobiles Affordable housing laws which require apartment owners to rent 10% of their apartments to low income renters A 2% annual property tax on your house Rent control laws which prevent landlords from raising rents

ENGR.ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

14th Edition

ISBN:9780190931919

Author:NEWNAN

Publisher:NEWNAN

Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions

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