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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... necessary to guarantee a right that is held to be basic. The perennial justification of any institution of property is that property ought to be an enforceable claim because property is necessary for the realization of man's fundamental ...
... necessary. This does not mean that this kind of property is any less desired by the corporations and individuals who still have it in any quantity. But it does mean that as this kind of property becomes less demonstrably necessary to ...
... necessary, we may grant that the protection and regulation of some variety of property is central to the purposes of every modern state. A system of property rights is an instrument by which a society seeks to realize the purposes of ...
... necessary to protect property as an institution (that is, by such taxation as was necessary to maintain law and government); and governments, whose rightful powers were only those delegated to them by the whole civil society, could ...
... necessary, Man had starved, notwithstanding the Plenty God had given him. We see in Commons, which remain so by Compact, that 'tis the taking any part of what is common, and removing it out of the state Nature leaves it in, which begins ...