The Mystery of Capital and the

Construction of Social Reality

A multi-disciplinary workshop with HERNANDO DE SOTO Institute for Liberty

and Democracy, Lima, Peru, and JOHN SEARLE University of California, Berkeley

hosted by the University at Buffalo, Buffalo New York

April 12 to 15, 2003


PRELIMINARY VERSIONS OF CONFERENCE PAPERS

AND SUPPLEMENTARY READING MATERIAL



Serguey Braguinsky
Allocation and Misallocation of Human Capital: Some Lessons from Japan and Russia
Carlos Cabrera
Agrarian Policy And Rural Development In Guatemala
Hernando de Soto
The Five Mysteries of Capital
Isaac Ehrlich
The Mystery of Human Capital
Dan Fitzpatrick
Collective Intentionality, Documentation and Real Estate Transactions
Andrew Frank
A Case for Simple Laws
Anette Kasten
Economics and Culture in the Former Socialist Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
David Koepsell
Sovereigns, Squatters and Property Rights: From Guano Islands to the Moon
Errol Meidinger
DeSoto, Searle, and Property Law: Reflections of an Unreconstructed Constructionist
Maureen Moriarty-Lempke
Political, Social and Economic Implications in a Russian Border Region: The Case of Gdov
Philippe Nemo
The Construction of Western Reality
Eric Palmer
Real Institutions
John Searle
The Building Blocks of Social Reality
Jeremy Shearmur
The Construction of Social Reality: The Case of Land
Barry Smith
From Speech Acts to Social Reality
Erik Stubkjær
The Institutionalization of Real Property Rights: The Case of Denmark
Jon D. Unruh
Poverty and Property Rights in the Developing World





 


Workshop Links

Registration   | Workshop Venue   |  Lodging   |  Workshop Agenda   | Keynote (Public) Talks |  de Soto   |  Searle Graduate Student Workshop

 


Co-hosted by: The National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis

and the Departments of Philosophy, Geography and Economics of the University at Buffalo

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines,

the IGERT program in Geographic Information Science, The Marvin Farber Fund, College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Office.

 

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