Kate Brown Ch 13 Q6

One section of this chapter that I found interesting was when Wheelan discusses the Samaritan's dilemma. This has been discussed in some of the other chapters especially the one that addresses what to do about poverty. Throughout this book it has been accepted that easing someone's immediate burden isn't very beneficial because it takes away their incentive to help themselves. However, in ch 13 Wheelan discusses an exception to this dilemma with the idea of property rights. If people don't have ownership over their own land they waste precious time protecting what isn't really theirs. If this is something that they don't have to worry about they can focus on other things that will help their economy grow. I also found this interesting because it is someone I have never really had to think about because here we have ownership over our property however this is a huge dilemma in developing countries.