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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... important works relating property to politics from the seventeenth century to the twentieth; and to advance the contemporary analysis in an opening and a closing essay. Department of Political Economy, C.B. MACPHERSON University of ...
... importance. The one is merely a popular misuse of the word: it does not necessarily carry with it a misunderstanding, although it may be taken as a sign of a limited understanding, of what property is. The other one is more serious. It ...
... important. No doubt, the right to things needed to maintain life is in one sense the most basic: without a property in one's daily bread no other kind of property would be of any use. Yet the other kinds – the property in land and ...
Mainstream and Critical Positions C.B. MacPherson. more important in another way: they carry with them, when they are held in quantities larger than an individual can work by himself, a power to control in some measure the lives of ...
... important values of liberal-democratic society now requires a redefinition of the concept of property. Our extracts are mostly from nineteenth and twentieth century writers, but we begin with two earlier though recognizably modern ones ...