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

Alexander, Gregory S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226013537 ISBN 13: 9780226013534

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Most people understand property as something that is owned, a means of creating individual wealth. However, in this text a 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 periods such as the second half of the 19th century, when 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, the author of this book rewrites the history of property, with significant implications for current political debates and recent Supreme Court decisions.

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Gregory S. Alexander is the A. Robert Noll Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Global Debate over Constitutional Property: The Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226013537
• ISBN 13: 9780226013534
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496
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