Commodity & Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776-1970 - Brossura

Alexander, Robert Noll Professor Of Law Gregory S

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ISBN 10: 0226013529 ISBN 13: 9780226013527

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2014

Riassunto

Most people understand property as something that is owned, a means of creating individual wealth. But in "Commodity and Propriety," the first full-length history of the meaning of property, Gregory Alexander uncovers in American legal writing a competing vision of property that has existed alongside the traditional conception. Property, Alexander argues, has also been understood as "proprietary," a mechanism for creating and maintaining a properly ordered society. This view of property has even operated in periodsOCosuch as the second half of the nineteenth centuryOCowhen market forces seemed to dominate social and legal relationships. In demonstrating how the understanding of property as a private basis for the public good has competed with the better-known market-oriented conception, Alexander radically rewrites the history of property, with significant implications for current political debates and recent Supreme Court decisions."

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226013529
• ISBN 13: 9780226013527
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 500
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile