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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... respect of these things, the rights which comprise the state's property in these things, are akin to private property rights, for they consist of the right to the use and benefit, and the right to exclude others from the use and benefit ...
... respect, as will be apparent to the careful reader of his chapter 'Of Property.' His influence was so considerable that the illogic of his position had still to be pointed out, in the twentieth century, by Morris Cohen (in our chapter ...
... respect of some Men, it is not so to all Mankind; but is the joint property of this Country, or this Parish. Besides, the remainder, after such inclosure, would not be as good to the rest of the Commoners as the whole was, when they ...
... respects, the greater is the sum of social happiness: and especially of that happiness which depends upon the laws. We may hence conclude that all the functions of law may be referred to these four heads: – To provide subsistence; to ...
... respect to all that good which it embraces. Security, then, is the pre-eminent object. I have mentioned equality as one of the objects of law. In an arrangement designed to give to all men the greatest possible sum of good, there is no ...