The property species : mine, yours, and the human mind / Bart J. Wilson.
2020
HB701 .W55 2020
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Title
The property species : mine, yours, and the human mind / Bart J. Wilson.
Author
Wilson, Bart J., author.
ISBN
9780190936822 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (248 pages).
Call Number
HB701 .W55 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.32
Summary
What is property, and why does our species happen to have it? The Property Species explores how Homo sapiens acquires, perceives, and knows the custom of property, and why it might be relevant for understanding how property works in the twenty-first century. Arguing from some hard-to-dispute facts that neither the natural sciences nor the humanities - nor the social sciences squarely in the middle - are synthesizing a full account of property, this book offers a cross-disciplinary compromise that is sure to be controversial: All human beings and only human beings have property in things, and at its core, property rests on custom, not rights.
Note
What is property, and why does our species happen to have it? The Property Species explores how Homo sapiens acquires, perceives, and knows the custom of property, and why it might be relevant for understanding how property works in the twenty-first century. Arguing from some hard-to-dispute facts that neither the natural sciences nor the humanities - nor the social sciences squarely in the middle - are synthesizing a full account of property, this book offers a cross-disciplinary compromise that is sure to be controversial: All human beings and only human beings have property in things, and at its core, property rests on custom, not rights.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 31, 2020).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780190936785
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