
Property
Mainstream and Critical Positions
C.B. MacPherson(Editor)
University of Toronto Press
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 20. October 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
210 pages
978-0-8020-6336-6 (ISBN)
Description
The legitimate role of the state in relation to property and the justification of property institutions of various kinds are matters of increasing concern in the modern world. Political and social theorists, jurists, economists, and historians have taken positions for and against the property institutions upheld in their time by the state, and further dehate seems inevitable. This book brings together ten classic statements which set out the main arguments that are now appealed to and places them in historical and critical perspective.
The extracts presented here - all substantial - are from Loeke, Rousseau, Bentham, Marx, Mill, Green, Veblen, Tawney, Morris Cohen, and Charles Reich. A note hy the editor at the head of each extract highlights the arguments in it and relates it to the time at which it was written. Professor Macpherson's introductory and concluding essays expose the roots of some common misconceptions of property, identify current changes in the concept of property, and predict future changes. Macpherson argues that a specific change in the concept (which now appears possible) is needed to rescue liberal democracy from its present impasse.
Property is both a valuable text on a crucial topic in political and social theory and a significant contribution to the continuing debate
The extracts presented here - all substantial - are from Loeke, Rousseau, Bentham, Marx, Mill, Green, Veblen, Tawney, Morris Cohen, and Charles Reich. A note hy the editor at the head of each extract highlights the arguments in it and relates it to the time at which it was written. Professor Macpherson's introductory and concluding essays expose the roots of some common misconceptions of property, identify current changes in the concept of property, and predict future changes. Macpherson argues that a specific change in the concept (which now appears possible) is needed to rescue liberal democracy from its present impasse.
Property is both a valuable text on a crucial topic in political and social theory and a significant contribution to the continuing debate
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
331 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-6336-6 (9780802063366)
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Person
C.B. Macpherson (1911-1987), FRSC, was an emeritus professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and the author of many influential books on Canadian politics and culture.
Content
The Meaning of Property
JOHN LOCKE - Of Property
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU - The Origin of Inequality
JEREMY BENTHAM - Security and Equality of Property
KARL MARX - Bourgeois Property and Capitalist Accumulation
JOHN STUART MILL - Of Property
THOMAS HILL GREEN - The Right of the State in Regard to Property
THORSTEIN VEBLEN - The Natural Right of Investment
R.H. TAWNEY - Property and Creative Work
MORRIS COHEN - Property and Sovereignity
CHARLES A. REICH - The New Property
Liberal-Democracy and Property
JOHN LOCKE - Of Property
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU - The Origin of Inequality
JEREMY BENTHAM - Security and Equality of Property
KARL MARX - Bourgeois Property and Capitalist Accumulation
JOHN STUART MILL - Of Property
THOMAS HILL GREEN - The Right of the State in Regard to Property
THORSTEIN VEBLEN - The Natural Right of Investment
R.H. TAWNEY - Property and Creative Work
MORRIS COHEN - Property and Sovereignity
CHARLES A. REICH - The New Property
Liberal-Democracy and Property