Barbed Wired Flashcards
Barbed Wire
Introduction and widespread of adoption of barbed wire: 1880-1900
*Invented by Joseph Glidden and patented in 1887
*Cheaper and lower labor requirements than wood fencing
Branding
American West—evolved from European and Vaquero traditions
*Allowed multiple ranches/owners to graze freely on open range
Externality
A cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit.
Fencing Law
Lawful Fence
a good, substantial, sufficient, and well suited barrier that is
sufficient to prevent animals from escaping property and to protect the property from trespassers.”
Excludability
Creative Destruction
the process of creative destruction is the essential fact about capitalism, Innovation both creates and destroys industries