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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... society or the dominant classes in society expect the institution of property to serve. When these expectations change, property becomes a controversial subject: there is not only argument about what the institution of property ought to ...
... society. These coincidences give us a clue as to how both usages arose. And when this is followed up we shall be able to see why each is now becoming, or is likely to become, obsolete. Before investigating the sources of these usages we ...
... society or the state, by custom or convention or law. If there were not this distinction there would be no need for a concept of property: no other concept than mere occupancy or momentary physical possession would be needed. No doubt ...
... is extensive enough to enforce it is a whole organized society itself or its specialized organization, the state; and in modern (i.e., post-feudal) societies the enforcing body has always been the state, the political institution of.