The prehistory of private property : implications for modern political theory /
Societies with common-property systems maintaining strong equality and extensive freedom were initially nearly ubiquitous around the world, and that the private property rights system was established through a long series of violent state-sponsored aggressions.
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Part One: The inequality hypothesis
- 2. Hierarchy's Apologists, Part One: 5,000 Years of Clever and Contradictory Arguments that Inequality is Natural and Inevitable
- 3. Hierarchy's Apologists, Part Two: Natural Inequality in Contemporary Political Philosophy and Social Science
- 4. How Small-Scale Societies Maintain Political, Social, and Economic Equality
- Part Two: The market freedom hypothesis
- 5. The Negative Freedom Argument for the Market Economy
- 6. The Negative Freedom Argument for the Hunter-Gatherer Band Economy
- Part Three: The individual appropriation hypothesis
- 7. Contemporary Property Theory: A Story, a Myth, a Principle, and a Hypothesis
- 8. The History of an Hypothesis
- 9. The Impossibility of a Purely A Priori Justifi cation of Private Property
- 10. Evidence Provided by Propertarians to Support the Appropriation Hypothesis
- 11. Property Systems in Hunter-Gatherer Societies
- 12. Property Systems in Stateless Farming Communities
- 13. Property Systems in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern States
- 14. The Privatization of the Earth, 1500-2000 ce
- 15. The Individual Appropriation Hypothesis Assessed
- Conclusion
- 16. Conclusion
- References
- Index
