Property law: an introduction

Cover\r......Page 1
AN INTRODUCTION TO PROPERTY THEORY......Page 3
Series......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
WHAT IS PROPERTY?......Page 15
WHAT IS A THEORY OF PROPERTY?......Page 20
PART I......Page 23
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO UTILITARIANISM......Page 25
The Nature of Utility......Page 26
Aggregating Utility......Page 27
Gathering Data on Utility......Page 28
UTILITARIANISM WITHIN PROPERTY THEORY......Page 31
The Tragedy of the Commons: Rational Actors, Externalities, and Transaction Costs......Page 33
Exploring the Assumptions behind the Tragedy of the Commons......Page 36
The Content of Utilitarian Property: The Bundle of Sticks versus Exclusion......Page 43
Problems with Utilitarian Approaches to Property......Page 45
CONCLUSION: THE VALUE OF UTILITARIAN ANALYSIS, BUT THE NEED FOR MORE......Page 47
LOCKE’S CONTEXT......Page 49
LOCKE’S NATURAL LAW FRAMEWORK......Page 50
LOCKE’S ARGUMENT FOR PRIVATE PROPERTY......Page 51
Stage One: State of Nature......Page 52
Stage Two: The Introduction of Money......Page 55
Stage Three: Civil Society......Page 56
SOME COMPLICATIONS FOR LOCKE’S THEORY......Page 60
THE LOCKEAN TRADITION SINCE LOCKE......Page 65
HEGEL’S PERSONALITY THEORY OF PROPERTY......Page 71
Hegel’s Concept of “Right”......Page 73
Externalizing Personality through Property......Page 74
What Can Be “Things”?......Page 75
Three Modes of Embodying the Will......Page 77
The Modern Significance of Hegel’s Theory of Property......Page 79
THE MODERN PERSONHOOD THEORY OF PROPERTY......Page 80
CRITIQUING THE PERSONALITY AND PERSONHOOD THEORIES......Page 82
4: Kantian Property Theory......Page 84
THE INNATE RIGHT – FREEDOM......Page 85
ACQUIRED RIGHTS......Page 86
Property......Page 89
Contract......Page 90
Status......Page 91
ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS......Page 92
Human Nature......Page 94
Practical Reason......Page 95
Justice......Page 96
PROPERTY......Page 97
AQUINAS......Page 98
Human Flourishing......Page 101
The Capabilities Approach......Page 103
Capabilities and Dependence......Page 104
Dependence and Obligation......Page 105
Flourishing and the Law......Page 106
Flourishing and Property......Page 108
PLURALISM AND INDETERMINACY......Page 111
PART II......Page 117
6: Government Redistribution of Resources......Page 119
Institutions and Information......Page 120
Endowment Effects......Page 121
Transaction Costs......Page 122
Responding to Market Failure......Page 123
Conclusion......Page 126
LIBERTARIANS AND REDISTRIBUTION......Page 127
Robert Nozick’s Libertarian Argument against Redistribution......Page 128
Redistribution within (Broadly) Libertarian Assumptions......Page 131
THE PERSONALITY/PERSONHOOD THEORIES AND REDISTRIBUTION......Page 133
REDISTRIBUTION AND FLOURISHING......Page 136
The Right to Exclude and the Private Home......Page 144
The Right to Exclude and Businesses Open to the Public......Page 145
Card Counting......Page 146
Beach Access......Page 147
THE RIGHT TO EXCLUDE IN UTILITARIAN PERSPECTIVE......Page 149
THE RIGHT TO EXCLUDE IN HEGELIAN PERSPECTIVE......Page 157
THE RIGHT TO EXCLUDE IN LOCKEAN AND LIBERTARIAN PERSPECTIVE......Page 160
THE RIGHT TO EXCLUDE AND HUMAN FLOURISHING......Page 163
Utilitarian Theory and Government Takings......Page 170
Public Use......Page 173
Utilitarian Theory and Regulatory Takings......Page 175
LIBERTARIANISM AND GOVERNMENT TAKINGS......Page 180
Eminent Domain......Page 181
Regulatory Takings......Page 183
THE PERSONALITY AND PERSONHOOD THEORIES......Page 186
Eminent Domain......Page 190
Regulatory Takings......Page 193
ENCOURAGING INVENTION: UTILITARIAN THEORIES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY......Page 197
Requirements for Protection......Page 200
Limits on Protection......Page 201
Qualifying the Utilitarian Case for Intellectual Property......Page 202
LOCKEAN AND NATURAL RIGHTS THEORIES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY......Page 205
Limitations on Intellectual Property Rights......Page 209
Intellectual Property and Personhood......Page 211
Limits on Hegelian Intellectual Property......Page 213
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN ARISTOTELIAN PROPERTY THEORY......Page 214
Necessity......Page 218
The Importance of Things in Property......Page 219
Property Rules......Page 222
PLURAL VALUES AND THE VALUE OF PLURALISM\nIN PROPERTY THEORY\n\n......Page 223
BOOKS AND ARTICLES......Page 229
CASES......Page 239
Index......Page 241