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Evolution of the Property Relation defines an approach to economics which is centered around the concept of property and explores the historical evolution of the relationship of the individual, private property, and the state, and the distinctive changes wrought by the emergence of the market.
List of contents
PART I 1. The Property Relation 2. Property and Paradigms PART II 3. The State 4. The Public/Private Divide 5. Money PART III 6. Beyond Property 7. Historicizing the Property Relation
About the author
Ann E. Davis is Associate Professor of Economics at Marist College, USA, where she founded the Marist College Bureau of Economic Research. She served as Director of the National Endowment of Humanities Summer Institute on the Meanings of Property in June, 2014. She has served as an elected board member of the Eastern Economic Association and the Union for Radical Political Economics. Her publications have appeared in Science and Society, Journal of Economic Issues, Review of Radical Political Economics, as well as many book chapters.
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Evolution of the Property Relation defines an approach to economics which is centered around the concept of property and explores the historical evolution of the relationship of the individual, private property, and the state, and the distinctive changes wrought by the emergence of the market.
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“This book deals with a fundamental item of
economics, which is seldom well analysed. … The Evolution of the Property
Relation is an essay that is interesting to all scholars of political economy.
… the book is accessible to all graduates, but the exact significance of all
reasoning requires a certain experience on this field of historical
institutional economics.” (Stefano Solari, History of Economic Thought and
Policy, Vol. 2, 2015)
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"This book deals with a fundamental item of economics, which is seldom well analysed. ... The Evolution of the Property Relation is an essay that is interesting to all scholars of political economy. ... the book is accessible to all graduates, but the exact significance of all reasoning requires a certain experience on this field of historical institutional economics." (Stefano Solari, History of Economic Thought and Policy, Vol. 2, 2015)
