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On The Property Rights of the "NatureEarthMan"
——A Multidimensional Probe into Today' s Human Development

  

  • Received:2011-03-23 Online:2011-05-15 Published:2011-05-15

Abstract:

 Nowadays human beings are facing the great challenge of resources and environment. At the same time, in some countries, the contradictions caused by "cheap labor costs" are also touching the bottom line of human dignity. This essay, based on the "multidimensional property rights of human development", and from the property rights of "nature" (environment), "earth" (resources) and "man" (manpower) as well as their coupling, puts forward the following opinions: (1) In the aspect of environment, there is the "deficiency of property rights". A theoretical discussion shows that it is objective to establish a system of environmental property rights. The framework serves as the "three pillars", that is, the system of environmental property rights in definition, transaction and protection, including the integrated coordination between the lines of property rights, techniques, structures and regulations. (2) In the aspects of resources, there is the "deformity of property rights". According to the "multipowers" of the generalized theory of property rights, such five powers should be perfected as peasants' land flow, woodland management and tree transfer, the drilling and mining of mineral resources, the rights of water resources, and the usufructuary right of oceans. (3) The property rights of manpower take human beings as the "essence", which emphasize labor force, management and technology. It is necessary to establish owners' subjective status in economic society and seek for the channels and forms of manpower capital being transformed into enterprise capital so as to construct a systematic structure of golden triangle. (4) The property order of the "natureearthman" has an inner coupling. The author makes some suggestion of how to play a coupling part of the property rights of the "natureearthman" in scientific development, systematic reform and social management.
   

Key words: human development, multidimensional property rights, environmental property rights, property rights of resources, property rights of manpower, coupling function