Volume I – Property and Intellectual Property
Acknowledgements
Introduction Robert D. Cooter and Francesco Parisi
PART I PROPERTY LAW
1. Robert C. Ellickson (1993), ‘Property in Land’
2. Dean Lueck (1995), ‘The Rule of First Possession and the Design of the Law’
3. Michael A. Heller (1998), ‘The Tragedy of the Anticommons: Property in the Transition from Marx to Markets’
4. James M. Buchanan and Yong J. Yoon (2000), ‘Symmetric Tragedies: Commons and Anticommons’
5. Thomas W. Merrill and Henry E. Smith (2000), ‘Optimal Standardization in the Law of Property: The Numerous Clauses Principle’
6. Francesco Parisi (2002), ‘Entropy in Property’
7. Henry Hansmann and Reiner Kraakman (2000), ‘The Essential Role of Organizational Law’
PART II INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
8. Michael A. Heller and Rebecca S. Eisenberg (1998), ‘Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research’
9. Hal R. Varian (2000), ‘Buying, Sharing and Renting Information Goods’
10. Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole (2002), ‘Some Simple Economics of Open Source’
11. Stephen Tadelis (1999), ‘What’s in a Name? Reputation as a Tradeable Asset’
12. Robert G. Bone (2004), ‘Enforcement Costs and Trademark Puzzles’

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