11.467J / 4.257J / 17.550J Property Rights in Transition, Spring 2005
Boundary stones marking the conversion of state-owned farmland into private residential plots in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2001. (Image by Prof. Annette M. Kim.)
Highlights of this Course
This course features an extensive list of
readings and a full set of discussion questions in the
lecture notes section.
Course Description
This course examines the theories and policy debates over who can own real property, how to communicate and enforce property rights, and the range of liberties that they confer. It explores alternative economic, political, and sociological perspectives of property rights and their policy and planning implications.