Property: Mainstream and Critical PositionsC.B. MacPherson University of Toronto Press, 15. 12. 1999. - 210 страница 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. Political and social theorists, jurists, economists, and historians have taken positions for and against the property institutions upheld in their time by the state, and further dehate seems inevitable. This book brings together ten classic statements which set out the main arguments that are now appealed to and places them in historical and critical perspective. The extracts presented here – all substantial – are from Loeke, Rousseau, Bentham, Marx, Mill, Green, Veblen, Tawney, Morris Cohen, and Charles Reich. A note hy the editor at the head of each extract highlights the arguments in it and relates it to the time at which it was written. Professor Macpherson's introductory and concluding essays expose the roots of some common misconceptions of property, identify current changes in the concept of property, and predict future changes. Macpherson argues that a specific change in the concept (which now appears possible) is needed to rescue liberal democracy from its present impasse. Property is both a valuable text on a crucial topic in political and social theory and a significant contribution to the continuing debate |
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... effects of new technologies. 'Few will doubt that property is equally central to any analysis of the prospects of liberal democracy. That issue was first raised, in contemporary terms, in 1942, in Joseph Schumpeter's remarkable work ...
... effect and cause of what it is at any time. What they see must have some relation (though not necessarily an exact correspondence) to what is actually there; but changes in what is there are due partly to changes in the ideas people ...
... effect defined property as a right. And even primitive societies make this distinction. This holds both for land or flocks or the produce of the hunt which were held in common, and for such individual property as there was. In both ...
... effect, the state itself is taking and exercising the powers of a corporation: it is acting as an artificial person. Now state property, as just described, does not give the individual citizen a direct right to use, nor a right not to ...
... effects other than were intended. As it does so, it needs to be re-defined if its intended purposes are to be served ... effect written into, or at least was implied in, the constitutions of the first great modern capitalist nation ...