Property - Mainstream and Critical Positions

The legitimate role of the state in relation to property and the justification of property institutions of various kinds are matters of increasing concern in the modern world.

List of contents

1. The Meaning of Property
2. JOHN LOCKE - Of Property
3. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU - The Origin of Inequality
4. JEREMY BENTHAM - Security and Equality of Property
5. KARL MARX - Bourgeois Property and Capitalist Accumulation
6. JOHN STUART MILL - Of Property
7. THOMAS HILL GREEN - The Right of the State in Regard to Property
8. THORSTEIN VEBLEN - The Natural Right of Investment
9. R.H. TAWNEY - Property and Creative Work
10. MORRIS COHEN - Property and Sovereignity
11. CHARLES A. REICH - The New Property
12. Liberal-Democracy and Property

About the author

By C.B. MacPherson

Summary

Property is both a valuable text on a crucial topic in political and social theory and a significant contribution to the continuing debate

Product details

• Assisted by: C. B. Macpherson (Editor), C.B. Macpherson (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780802063366
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-6336-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 228 mm x 154 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 364 g
• Series: Heritage; Canadian University Paperbooks; HERITAGE
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics