Gary D Libecap

Owens Valley Revisited: A Reassessment of the West's First Great Water Transfer

Owens Valley Revisited: A Reassessment of the West's First Great Water Transfer

Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth

University Entrepreneurship And Technology Transfer: Process, Design, And Intellectual Property

Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth

Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth: Innovation in New Markets The Impact of Deregulation on Airlines, Finan

Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth: Corporate Reorganization Through Mergers, Acquisitions, and Leveraged Buyouts Supplement 1

Government & the American Economy: A New History

Owens Valley Revisited: A Reassessment of the West's First Great Water Transfer

In the contemporary West, pressures to more effectively reallocate water to meet growing urban and environmental demands are increasing as environmental awareness grows and climate change threatens existing water supplies. The legacy of Owens Valley raises concerns about how reallocation can occur. ...

The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)

While debates over the consequences of climate change are often pessimistic, historical data from the past two centuries indicate many viable opportunities for responding to potential changes. This volume takes a close look at the ways in which economies—particularly that of the United States—have a...

Contracting for Property Rights (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)

In this book the author examines the problems encountered in negotiations among claimants and the political and economic considerations that influence property rights arrangements. The histories of mineral rights, rights to range and timber land, and fishery and crude oil production rights in the Un...

Titles, Conflict, and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier (Economics, Cognition, and Society)

The Amazon, the world's largest rain forest, is the last frontier in Brazil. The settlement of large and small farmers, squatters, miners, and loggers in this frontier during the past thirty years has given rise to violent conflicts over land as well as environmental duress. Titles, Conflict, and La...

The Federal Civil Service System and the Problem of Bureaucracy: The Economics and Politics of Institutional Change (National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Dev)

The call to "reinvent government"—to reform the government bureaucracy of the United States—resonates as loudly from elected officials as from the public. Examining the political and economic forces that have shaped the American civil service system from its beginnings in 1883 through today, the aut...

Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results, Volume 18 (Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth)

Profiting from technological innovation is a key strategic challenge in technology-intensive industries because it requires not only scientific and engineering expertise but also an understanding of how business and legal factors facilitate commercialization. This volume presents a multidisciplinary...

The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)

How has the United States government grown? What political and economic factors have given rise to its regulation of the economy? These eight case studies explore the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century origins of government intervention in the United States economy, focusing on the politic...

Entrepreneurship and Global Competitiveness in Regional Economies: Determinants and Policy Implications (Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth)

This volume, comprised of authors from the U.S., Canada, Africa, and Europe, centers on the development, transformation, and role of geographic /regional economies-- specifically in the globalized, post-2009 era. The authors address topics that every region must consider in responding to idea age, g...