GIFTS OF THE NATION.

PROPERTY rights; GOVERNMENT agencies; BUSINESS enterprises; URBAN policy; PROPERTY; INFORMAL sector; SMALL business; ABANDONMENT of property

Analyses the role of State in the right of property of individuals. Argument that far from being exclusively in the business of destroying wealth, the modern state is creating new millionaires all the time; Information that an entire federal agency, the Small Business Administration, devotes much of its energies to anointing minority-group millionaires through subsidized loans, no-bid government contracts; Argument that in cities across the land, local eminence or connections to the mighty may be bartered for large block of stock in cable TV enterprises which are seeking the sanction of municipal potentates. INSET: CONSUMERS OF WEALTH..