Building Regulation, Market Alternatives, and Allodial Policy

by John M Cobin Ph.D., Walter E Williams (Foreword by)

Overview

A well-documented critique of building quality and fire safety regulation that provides market-based alternatives to regulation and real property policy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780595141371
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/01/2001
Pages:	252
Sales rank:	893,603
Product dimensions:	6.08(w) x 9.22(h) x 0.64(d)

Table of Contents

	Figures and tables	vii
	Foreword	viii
	Acknowledgments	x
	Introduction	1
1	A case study on building fire safety
	Market failure, the public interest, and safety regulation	6
	Structural fires and regulation in Baltimore	34
	Conclusions	45
2	A case study on building quality
	Policy and scholarship on building quality	47
	Empirical results	63
	Conclusions	79
3	Market-regulatory alternatives
	The question of public safety and quality provision	81
	Conventional public goods scholarship	82
	Criticisms of government safety and quality programs	85
	Market provision of information services	92
	Market grading services in the rare coin industry	98
	A market alternative to government regulation of real property	108
4	A policy overview of American allodialism
	Allodialism and American policy	115
	Purpose and method of historical research	119
	The historical backdrop of allodialism	121
	The allodialism debate in the new republic	147
	The dissolution of allodialism: post-bellum cases and beyond	173
	Is the state the overlord of real property?	183
	Policy summary: allodialism vs. the new feudalism	203
5	Concluding implications for public policy
	Replies to concerns about market-based building regulation	206
	Recapitulation of some of the major issues with observations	210
	Policy recommendations	211
	Appendices
Appendix A	Shepardizing results of important cases	213
Appendix B	Chronological important case citations with topics	214
	Bibliography	216
	Index	228
	About the author	238