Michael Heller, author of "The Gridlock Economy", argues that such vaguely defined and aggressively asserted property rights stifle innovation and cost lives.Another common complaint, especially among medium-sized firms, is that it costs so much to list on an American stock exchange.
On its website, CRG Network says the mission of its political action committee is to "help citizens elect fiscally conservative candidates, assert property rights, and remove corrupt and/or fiscally irresponsible politicians from office".
The end of the civil wars provided the political and legal stability necessary to assert property rights and cut transaction costs, contributing to the huge inflows of capital and labour resources that built modern Argentina.
It is now easy to see that the asserted properties are valid.
In poetics, metaphor is often distinguished from simile in that it asserts properties of one entity in terms of another entity without the use of "like" or "as" ("My boss is a dragon" vs. "My boss is like a dragon").
Thinking of ideas as property creates "a very powerful metaphor that tips the scales in the direction of the person asserting their property rights have been violated," said Pam Samuelson, co-director of the Center for Law and Technology at the University of California at Berkeley.
The whole experience made me feel bitter – towards the management company for apparently not telling their lessees about knotweed, to the vendor for asserting the property had categorically not been affected by it, and to the surveyor for not bothering to look for any signs.
The growth of lawsuits in the US by so-called "patent trolls" – which do not make anything but simply demand payments after asserting intellectual property rights – threatens to snuff out the booming mobile app market, which is expected to be worth £4.5bn this year and double that in 2012.
