Property and persuasion : essays on the history, theory, and rhetoric of ownership / Carol M. Rose.
With socialism largely discredited in recent years, the moral and legal status of private property has become an increasingly important area for discussion in contemporary political and social thought. Offering a contribution to legal theory, and to political and social philosophy, this work examine...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction - approaching property. Part 1 Initial persuasions - talk about money: possession as the origin of property; property as storytelling - perspectives from game theory, narrative theory, feminist theory. Part 2 Wealth and community, then and now: "takings" and the practices of property - property as wealth, property as "propriety"; ancient constitution versus federalist empire - anti-federalism from the attack on "monarchism" to modern localism. Part 3 Common property: the comedy of the commons - custom, commerce and inherently public property; energy and efficiency in the realignment of common-law water rights. Part 4 Bargaining and entitlement: crystals and mud in property law; women and property - gaining and losing ground. Part 5 Persuasion revisited - vision and property: seeing property.