January 06, 2009
Property Rights and the Right of Retrieval
Property rights are sometimes described as bundles of sticks. This NPR story about Virginia's right for hunters to go on other people's land to retrieve their dogs provides a nice illustration. Although the current issue seems to be primarily an attempt by animal rights folks to decrease deer hunting, it shows that the current bundle of property rights in VA does not include the right to exclude hunters seeking to retrieve their dogs.
Posted by E. Frank Stephenson at 11:13 AM in
Economics