Commodity & Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776-1970
- ISBN-10
- 0226013545
- ISBN-13
- 9780226013541
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 486
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-06-04
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Gregory S. Alexander
Description
Most people understand property as something that is owned, a means of creating individual wealth. But in Commodity & Propriety, Gregory S. 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. The real tradition in American legal thought about property can be discovered in the ongoing debate over the priority of the market versus the social good.
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