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Introduction

Part I: The theory of property rights or new institutional economics

The fundamentals of new institutional economics
The "naive" theory of the emergence of private property rights: Armen A. Alchian and Harold Demsetz
The political theory of the emergence of private property rights: Douglass C. North
The fundamental flaw in new institutional economics: The missing distinction between property and possession

Part II: The property theory of the economy or property economics

Possession and property: Physical use of resources in mere production systems versus business operations of an economy
The rise and fall of collateral and own capital in the history of economic thought
The property theory of interest and money: Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger
The approaches to property by Hernando de Soto, Tom Bethell and Richard Pipes

Part III: Analysis of reform programs of multilateral institutions

The property reform programs of the "Instituto Libertad y Democracia" (ILD)
The social finance programs of the International Labour Office (ILO)
A shift in the World Bank's thinking on IDA development programs?
The limitations of analyzing reform programs

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