Posted on 02/24/2009 1:07:47 PM PST by nateriver
International Property Rights Index is out and the United States ranks overall the 15th best in the world. The index focuses on three areas: Intellectual Property, Physical Property, and Legal and Political environment. US rank number one in copyrights, Patent Rights and Inheritance rights.
Maybe Microsoft is having a better time of protecting its patents, but the economic and property rights of the average citizen can’t be improving.
They must be talking about software, because the average person has very few property rights.
Very soon we won’t have any property so the question will be moot.
"The foundation of property rights governance is comprised of three elements:
1) the capacity to incorporate diverse economic and political interests in dialogue and design of programs to resolve priority property rights issues,
2) the availability of suitable information about the capabilities and uses of land as well as the boundaries of properties, and
3) the legal framework, the rules which the society devises to handle the competing property rights imperatives, including formal expression of these rules in laws and regulations, as well as the customs which people devise about the exercise of property rights and the responsibilities of the holders of these rights."
Maybe the property rights in the other countries have worsened, and that's why the U.S. moved up four places on the index...? (I really don't know. I'm just guessing.)
Have they heard about the atrocity that is Kelo v. City of New London????
In other words, they are using a distributive rights (i.e. social democratic) framework in talking about property rights. If one is in favor of individual rights, and state non-interference, then moving higher on this list is bad, not good.
It’s based in Bulgaria.
Finland is #1.
Moving up 4 spots is not good.
Court rules for state in American Indian land case
news.yahoo.com | 02/24/09 | RAY HENRY
Posted on 02/24/2009 2:49:57 PM PST by patriotmediaa
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