Date: June 17th, 2008

DeSoto, meet Heinlein: Part 2, buying the future

17 June, 2008 (08:42) | Land use, Legal, Speculation, Theory | No comments

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday’s interplanetary riff about potentially sell land rights on the Moon, stimulated by a provocative Drake Bennett article in The Boston Globe, suggested that pre-selling future rights would stimulate not only investment but also exploration with a view to investment.  Hernando De Soto and numerous others (including me) believe that ownership […]