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Property and Justice (Hardcover, New)
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Property and Justice (Hardcover, New)
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Property is a legal and social institution governing the use of
most things and the allocation of some items of social welfare. As
an institution, property is a complex organizing idea. Despite its
complexity, property, as an organizing idea, is now very old and is
now used worldwide. The oldest written records atttest to it. Few
primitive peoples, whose societies have been researched by
anthropologists, have turned out to lack any conception of it. In
the modern world, any normal person will have heard of it, from
childhood onwards. In the modern world, the institution of property
is everywhere embodied in law. That is to say, the various organs
of government deploy it, officially as part of the mechanism for
controlling the use of things and as part of the mechanism for
supervising or directing the allocation of wealth. This work
examines the legal and philosophical underpinnings of the concept
of property and offers a new alaytical framework for understanding
property and justices. Bridging the gulf between juristic writing
on property and speculations about it appearing in the tradition of
western political philosophy, Jim Harris has built from entirely
new foundations an analytical framework for understanding the
nature of property and its connection with justice. Dr Harris'
achievement is a monumental one marrying the subtlety of
contemporary political philosophy with the fine detail of technical
legislation and difficult litigation in English property law. The
result greatly improves our understanding of the philosophical
dimension of property and at the same time allows us to stand back
from the detail and see the patterns which emerge.
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