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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... whole theoretical handling of the concept of property by many modern writers. Both usages can be traced historically to about the same period, the period of the rise of the full capitalist market society. These coincidences give us a ...
... 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.
... whole state. The paradox disappears when we notice that the state, in any modern society, is not the whole body of citizens but a smaller body of persons who have been authorized (whether by the whole body of citizens or not) to command ...
... whole body of citizens. It acts in their name, but it is not they. And it is the body that holds the rights called state property. When the state is seen in this way, it becomes perfectly intelligible that the state can have a corporate ...
... whole work of allocation. The society as a whole, or the most influential sections of it, operating through the instrumentality of the welfare state and the warfare state – in any case, the regulatory state – is doing more and more of ...