Property And Freedom
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2010
352 pages
978-1-4090-0185-0 (ISBN)
Description
One of the most enduring dreams is of a Utopian society in which all possessions are held in common ownership, and there is never a quarrel over "mine" and "thine". As Professor Pipes argues in this book, such a dream has never been translated into reality in the secular world, despite the best efforts of socialist and communist ideologues. Acquisitiveness is deeply ingrained in all living creatures and all societies for both economic and psychological reasons. Where there are no guarantees of property there are no limits to state authority and no regulatory bodies of law, and hence no guarantee of individual liberty, or "civil rights". Herein lies the crux of the author's argument.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
0,49 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4090-0185-0 (9781409001850)
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Person
Richard Pipes, Polish by birth, was educated at Cornell and Harvard Universities. Since 1950 he has taught continuously at Harvard, where he is Baird Professor of History. He served from 1981-2 on President Reagan's National Security Council as Director of Soviet and East European Affairs.
