Commodity & Propriety

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

First sentence: LEGAL WRITING IN THE late eighteenth century was strikingly different from what it is today.

Year

1997

Language

English

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Editions

2

Pages

496

ISBN

9780226013541

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