Property Species - Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind

About the author

Bart J. Wilson is Professor of Economics and Law and Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair in Economics and Law at Chapman University.

Summary

What is property, and why does our species happen to have it? In The Property Species, the economist Bart Wilson explores how we acquire, perceive, and know the custom of property, and why this might be relevant to social scientists, philosophers, and legal scholars for understanding how property works in the twenty-first century.

Additional text

This book is a tour de force and will surely be a landmark in thought. The way Wilson weaves together law and economics, psychology and history, experiment and theory, to make a fresh argument about a very old subject is remarkable. It's a worthy successor to Locke.

Product details

• Authors: Bart J. Wilson, Bart J. (Professor of Economics and Law an Wilson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2020
• EAN: 9780190936785
• ISBN: 978-0-19-093678-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Sociology, PHILOSOPHY / Political, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, Sociology: customs & traditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, Social & political philosophy, Economic theory & philosophy, social and political philosophy, Behavioural economics, Social and cultural anthropology, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, Property law: general, Economic theory and philosophy, property law