The impasses of “property rights”: The history approach

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine the “theory of property rights” and the need for their clarification it in order to promote economic and agricultural growth, by comparing it with historical processes and specific studies carried out on the subject, using a comparative and well-founded approach. Indeed, if the question was initially formulated in the context of European or North American economic and agricultural history, it is clear that it also arises for the Iberoamerican continent, both in terms of the present and in a historical perspective, as historians and social scientists on the continent and the literature produced on the subject have already begun to consider. The results offered in this first comparative work take a position in this respect, and their purpose is also to provoke new analytical formulations, with the aim of prolonging the discussion.