TY  - BOOK
AU  - Widerquist,Karl
AU  - McCall,Grant S.
TI  - The Prehistory of Private Property: Implications for Modern Political Theory
SN  - 9781474447447
AV  - K721 .P744 2021
KW  - Right of property
KW  - History
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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