Shadow Property and the Hidden Empire of Ego: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Liberal Property

Preface
Contents
List of Images
1 Introduction
	1 Introduction
		1.1 Shadows
		1.2 Ego
		1.3 Empire
	2 Setting Out
		2.1 A Word About Property Theory
		2.2 Roadmap
Part I Past: Liberalism’s Shadow
2 Law
	1 Introduction
	2 Liberal Law
		2.1 Choice
		2.2 A Rare Glimpse
	3 Two Biographies of the Individual
		3.1 Natural
		3.2 Fictional
	4 A System that Goes All by Itself
3 Private Property
	1 Introduction
	2 General and Universal
	3 Abstract
	4 Codified
	5 Repressive
	6 A Parallax View: The Shadow Cast
Part II Present: The Hidden Empire of Ego
4 Ego
	1 Introduction
	2 The Head That Wore the Crown: The Absolute Monarch
	3 The Heads That Wear the Crown: The Liberal Individual
	4 Finding Ego
		4.1 The Empirical World
		4.2 Liberal Private Property: Three Vignettes
	5 Ego is Law
5 Unjustifiable Law
	1 Introduction
	2 Liberalism’s Attempt at Justification
		2.1 Scarcity and Inequality
		2.2 Justificatory Theories
	3 Consequences of Ego—Can It Really Be Justified?
		3.1 How It Shapes Our World
		3.2 Consequences, Today…
		3.3 …and in the Future
		3.4 A Paradox: Who Chooses, and Who Suffers?
	4 The Liberal Individual Makes Unjustifiable Law
Part III Future: Into the Light
6 Reflections on Obligation
	1 A Solution?
	2 A New Narrative: Individual Private Property
	3 Hallmarks
		3.1 Allocating Resources
		3.2 It Begins at the Macro Level…
		3.3 …but Must Be Implemented at the Individual Level
		3.4 The Only Justification is Equality
Table of Legislation
Australia
Canada
France
United States
Table of Cases
Bibliography
Index