The Prehistory of Private Property : Implications for Modern Political Theory.

By:

Widerquist, Karl [Author]

Contributor(s):

McCall, Grant S

Material type: Text

TextDescription: 1 online resource (329 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781474447447

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

K721 .P744 2021

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Contents:

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

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

15. The Individual Appropriation Hypothesis Assessed -- Conclusion -- 16. Conclusion -- References -- Index

Subject: 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.

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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

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.

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