The Prehistory of Private Property: Implications for Modern Political Theory

CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Part One The inequality hypothesis
	2. Hierarchy’s Apologists, Part One
	3. Hierarchy’s Apologists, Part Two
	4. How Small-Scale Societies Maintain Political, Social,
and Economic Equality
Part Two The market freedom hypothesis
	5. The Negative Freedom Argument for the Market Economy
	6. The Negative Freedom Argument for the Hunter-Gatherer
Band Economy
Part Three The individual appropriation hypothesis
	7. Contemporary Property Theory
	8. The History of an Hypothesis
	9. The Impossibility of a Purely A Priori Justifi cation of
Private Property
	10. Evidence Provided by Propertarians to Support the
Appropriation Hypothesis
	11. Property Systems in Hunter-Gatherer Societies
	12. Property Systems in Stateless Farming Communities
	13. Property Systems in Ancient, Medieval, and
Early Modern States
	14. The Privatization of the Earth, 1500–2000 ce
	15. The Individual Appropriation Hypothesis Assessed
16. Conclusion
References
Index