rent-seeking behavior

A Master of Disaster: James Crosby and the Failure of HBOS Bank

On 3 December the British liberal newspaper, the Guardian, reported the apology issued to the world by the former chief executive of HBOS, a large British bank that collapsed during the financial crisis to the development of which its …

Nov 4, 2012

From Kelo With Love: Revisiting Kelo’s Flawed Economics and Vacuous Constitutionalism

Liberty Forum
by Todd Zywicki / 0 Comments

Filed Under: holdout problem, Kelo, Pfizer, rent-seeking behavior, subjective value

The recent announcement that two California counties are considering using the eminent domain power of the Fifth Amendment to seize underwater mortgages from their owners provides a useful opportunity to revisit the Supreme Court’s extraordinarily wrong-headed decision in Kelo v. …

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Democratic Government and Eminent Domain

by Christopher Serkin / 1 Comment

Filed Under: Eminent Domain, Fair market value standard, holdout problem, Kelo, subjective value, underwater mortgages
Kelo With Caveats

by Steven J. Eagle / 0 Comments

Filed Under: Berman v. Parker, Fifth Amendment, Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, Kaur v. New York State Urban Development Corp, Kelo v. City of New London, Takings clause