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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextDescription: 1 online resource (329 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474447447
Subject(s): Genre/Form: 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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Includes bibliographies and index.

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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