Contemporary China’s Rural Landownership with Reference to Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership

Meng, Gaofeng

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“…2.1. The Transition from the People's Commune to the HRS: Externality Framework Upholders of the "privatization" view have difficulty understanding the evolution of property rights in rural areas in China partly because these economists [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] have failed to notice that property rights are not a monism of the property rights; communal ownership being as an only progression to pure privatization. Instead, the definition of property rights on account of neglecting the monism of the property rights was given by the evolutionary theory of property rights.…”

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“…Therefore, it is expected that in order to reduce risk, at least one property right needs to be granted to managers in the future, i.e., the "prohibition of harmful use", as identified by Honoré [9] (p. 681); this refers to the "owner's liberty to use and manage the thing owned as he chooses . .…”

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“…While analyzing the literature, publications concerning land issues in China have paid more attention to the understanding of contemporary China's rural landownership [7][8][9] or land titling [4,6,10,11]. This article pays special attention to the evolutionary issue related to rural land rights in China, to further provide an integrated theoretical vision of evolutionary theory of land rights in either developing or developed countries.…”

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The Demsetz’s Evolutionary Theory of Property Rights as Applied to Rural Land of China: A Supplement

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The main objective of this article is to contribute to the literature on land issues, especially with regard to the evolutionary theory of China’s rural land property rights. This article applies the Demsetz’s evolutionary theory of property rights as a framework into an analysis of the evolutionary process of property rights in rural land of China. It is found that externality, compactness, productivity, and organizational complexity—four principles in Demsetz’s framework—are at the core of understanding the evolution of property rights from collective control of land to family based control of land in China. However, the framework is incomplete due to being unlikely to notice the role of land titling so that a property rights game is developed in this article to extend the evolutionary theory of property rights. Importantly, it suggests the necessity of “split-rights” from family based control land to private control land in China. To sum up, this paper refreshes the dominant framework of analysis on the evolution of property rights in mainstream economics, and makes it discern when collective ownership does not evolve into pure privatization, finally, instead of into private control of land, as is currently applied to rural area in China.

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“…What made the HRS so effective? We aren't able here to analyse the HRS in detail (see Meng, 2016b), but using Honoré's eleven incidents of ownership as an analytical aid, it is possible to identify its key features and the roots of its success.…”

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This paper addresses a puzzle which at first glance might seem rather parochial but which is, we believe, of considerable practical as well as theoretical importance. The puzzle is that surrounding Marx's ideas about property and, in particular, property in his imagined 'post-capitalist' society of the future. It is well known that Marx was critical of 'capitalist private property' in the means of production. In the 1844 Manuscripts, for example, he anticipated with enthusiasm the replacement of capitalist societies based on private property by communist societies based on 'truly human and social property' (Marx, 1970 [1844], p.118). In similar vein, in Capital, written twenty years later, he looked forward to the 'transformation of capitalistic private property … into socialised property' (Marx, 1961 [1867], p.715), and in the Critique of the Gotha Programme contemplated the creation of 'co-operative property' and a 'co-operative society based on common ownership of the means of production' (Marx, 2010b [1875], p.345). It is often forgotten, however, that in the Manuscripts he also wrote of the need to preserve the 'positive essence of private property' (Marx, 1970 [1844], p.135); that in Capital he anticipated not only the emergence of 'socialised property' but the simultaneous establishment of 'individual property' (Marx, 1961 [1867], p.715); and that in The Civil War in France he praised the Paris Commune's attempt to 'make individual property a truth' (Marx, 2010a [1871], p.213). Even a sympathetic commentator like Chris Arthur is driven to ask, 'What on earth does [this] mean'? (Arthur, 2004, p.114) How can 'individual property' and 'socialised'/'truly social property' in the means of production co-exist?

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“…The local and migrant households call for more equitable outcomes in government financial supports. These three aspects of suggestions on governance structure are aligned with current calls for equity, empowerment and collaboration to achieve community level sustainability in China(Meng 2016). These social changes have potential to fight against the rigid industrial structure that gives only limited consideration to rural households' initiatives.…”

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Making agribusinesses and agri-food supply chains (SCs) create shared value for producers and rural communities is an attractive yet complex issue. Researchers, policy makers and business actors focus on policies, activities, and models in agri-food SCs to meet multiple social and economic demands, and natural resource challenges in rural communities, yet limited research Publications during candidature Conference paper

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Contemporary China’s Rural Landownership with Reference to Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership

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