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Commodity & Propriety : Lessons for American Takings Jurisprudence.
Most people understand property as something that is owned, a means of creating individual wealth. But in Commodity and Propriety, the first full-length history of the meaning of property, Gregory Alexander uncovers in American legal writing a competing vision of property that has existed alongside...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Most people understand property as something that is owned, a means of creating individual wealth. But in Commodity and Propriety, the first full-length history of the meaning of property, Gregory Alexander uncovers in American legal writing a competing vision of property that has existed alongside the traditional conception. Property, Alexander argues, has also been understood as proprietary, a mechanism for creating and maintaining a properly ordered society. This view of property has even operated in periods?such as the second half of the nineteenth century?when market forces seemed to domi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (500 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780226013527 0226013529 |