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The prehistory of private property : implications for modern political theory /

Societies with common-property systems maintaining strong equality and extensive freedom were initially nearly ubiquitous around the world, and that the private property rights system was established through a long series of violent state-sponsored aggressions.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Widerquist, Karl (Autor), McCall, Grant S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part One: The inequality hypothesis
  • 2. Hierarchy's Apologists, Part One: 5,000 Years of Clever and Contradictory Arguments that Inequality is Natural and Inevitable
  • 3. Hierarchy's Apologists, Part Two: Natural Inequality in Contemporary Political Philosophy and Social Science
  • 4. How Small-Scale Societies Maintain Political, Social, and Economic Equality
  • Part Two: The market freedom hypothesis
  • 5. The Negative Freedom Argument for the Market Economy
  • 6. The Negative Freedom Argument for the Hunter-Gatherer Band Economy
  • Part Three: The individual appropriation hypothesis
  • 7. Contemporary Property Theory: A Story, a Myth, a Principle, and a Hypothesis
  • 8. The History of an Hypothesis
  • 9. The Impossibility of a Purely A Priori Justifi cation of Private Property
  • 10. Evidence Provided by Propertarians to Support the Appropriation Hypothesis
  • 11. Property Systems in Hunter-Gatherer Societies
  • 12. Property Systems in Stateless Farming Communities
  • 13. Property Systems in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern States
  • 14. The Privatization of the Earth, 1500-2000 ce
  • 15. The Individual Appropriation Hypothesis Assessed
  • Conclusion
  • 16. Conclusion
  • References
  • Index