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Publication date: 1 April 1994

HOW MORALITY STRUCTURES THE HUMAN RIGHT TO PROPERTY

Sandra Tomsons

To one aware of the persistence and severity of ancient and modern attacks on private property, the allegiance to private property characteristic of contemporary…

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To one aware of the persistence and severity of ancient and modern attacks on private property, the allegiance to private property characteristic of contemporary proponents of human rights may appear remarkable, indeed, mind‐boggling. However, I believe that philosophers committed to human rights identify private property with the human right to property because of their unwarranted confidence in the moral justifiability, and hence the moral acceptability, of private property. In company with John Locke, today's supporters of the view that persons have the human right to property believe that moral reasoning based upon the foundational beliefs of a doctrine of human rights ultimately establishes property to be a human right. Subsequently, they diligently seek morality's sanction for the appropriation, accumulation, and the use and disposal of things in the manner associated with private property. Private property is, therefore, virtually unopposed in its bid for the property chair in the exclusive human rights club. Though decried by opponents as robbery and massively unjust, in theory this form of ownership is remarkably unscathed behind a fortress of arguments. In practice, many societies currently purporting to have instantiated private property in their institutional arrangements have so mitigated property rights that the concept of private property is inapplicable. However, in combination with widespread and strong commitment to private property, the fortress of moral justification for a human right to private property is a serious obstacle to changing a society's property arrangements.

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Humanomics, vol. 10 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb018755
ISSN: 0828-8666

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Publication date: 3 June 2014

The tragedy of the private: transaction cost considerations

Tamara Peneva Todorova

The purpose of this paper is to weigh the benefits and costs of public property, as opposed to private, from the transaction cost perspective. In the absence of…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to weigh the benefits and costs of public property, as opposed to private, from the transaction cost perspective. In the absence of transaction costs, private property has clear advantages over public. However, when the true costs of running an economic system are taken into account, the advantages of private property are not so evident and public property may turn out to be the preferred form of ownership. The paper shows that in high-transaction cost sectors and economies such as the newly emerging markets in Eastern Europe, public property is a cheaper way of organizing economic activities, as it can save on transaction costs. The paper demonstrates these virtues of public ownership in relation to market failure, the provision of public goods, natural monopolies and competitive industries with a high degree of market uncertainty, opportunism and asset specificity.

Design/methodology/approach

A qualitative paper discussing the advantages of public over private property in the presence of high-transaction costs.

Findings

Studying different types of market failure the paper finds that public property is advantageous to private in high-transaction cost systems.

Originality/value

Since most of the standard literature emphasizes the advantages of private property, the paper gives an economic explanation to those of public property taking on a new institutional approach and conducting a transaction cost analysis.

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International Journal of Social Economics, vol. 41 no. 6
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-02-2011-0069
ISSN: 0306-8293

Keywords

  • Economic theory
  • Developing countries
  • Citizenship
  • Marxist economics

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Publication date: 6 August 2012

Notes from Warren J. Samuels's 1996 Course on the Economic Role of Government

Marianne Johnson and Martin E. Meder

X = multiple interpretations

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X = multiple interpretations

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Documents on Government and the Economy
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0743-4154(2012)000030B007
ISBN: 978-1-78052-827-4

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Publication date: 1 January 1997

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: ACHIEVING A MORALLY ACCEPTABLE END BY MORALLY ACCEPTABLE MEANS

Sandra Tomsons

The notion of sustainable development, which appears to have become a permanent fixture in political and economic discussions at the national and international level…

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The notion of sustainable development, which appears to have become a permanent fixture in political and economic discussions at the national and international level, carries with it approvals of various sorts. At a time when the sheer number of human beings on the planet is ecologically problematic, sustainable development has replaced motherhood as that which everyone unreservedly commends. The different foundations upon which approval rests successfully blanket sustainable development with an all encompassing positive assessment. Positively assessed economically, politically, ecologically and purportedly topped off with moral support from human rights and justice considerations, sustainable development has attained the status of an unquestioned good. Frequently it is touted as the highest good. The means to achieving sustainable development globally and how to contribute to it nationally are seriously debated worldwide. While courses of action plotted to secure the end may rest in pages of committee reports or be poorly implemented, the few voices raised against the recommendation to pursue it are scarcely discernable as a murmur in the cacophony of those who sing its praises. Consequently, when the support from economic, political, ecological and moral theories combines with “the people's” commitment to sustainable development, this notion functions to identify today's most powerful justification for the actions or omissions of governments, individually or jointly.

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Humanomics, vol. 13 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb018788
ISSN: 0828-8666

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Publication date: 1 March 1985

German Political Economy: The History of an Alternative Economics

Tomas Riha

Nobody concerned with political economy can neglect the history of economic doctrines. Structural changes in the economy and society influence economic thinking and…

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Nobody concerned with political economy can neglect the history of economic doctrines. Structural changes in the economy and society influence economic thinking and, conversely, innovative thought structures and attitudes have almost always forced economic institutions and modes of behaviour to adjust. We learn from the history of economic doctrines how a particular theory emerged and whether, and in which environment, it could take root. We can see how a school evolves out of a common methodological perception and similar techniques of analysis, and how it has to establish itself. The interaction between unresolved problems on the one hand, and the search for better solutions or explanations on the other, leads to a change in paradigma and to the formation of new lines of reasoning. As long as the real world is subject to progress and change scientific search for explanation must out of necessity continue.

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International Journal of Social Economics, vol. 12 no. 3/4/5
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013991
ISSN: 0306-8293

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Publication date: 1 January 1995

Remarks on what seems to be obvious

Ernest Raiklin

Questions the meanings of the economic concepts which are usuallytaken for granted by many economics textbooks. Discusses notions of“property” (including actual, legal…

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Questions the meanings of the economic concepts which are usually taken for granted by many economics textbooks. Discusses notions of “property” (including actual, legal, private and public property), “possession”, “market”, “capitalism”, “socialism”, “communism” and “planning”, all of which are customarily used in these textbooks as the given institutional framework within which each modern industrial economies operate.

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International Journal of Social Economics, vol. 22 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/03068299510075122
ISSN: 0306-8293

Keywords

  • Capitalism
  • Economic systems
  • Property
  • Socialism

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Publication date: 1 May 1988

The Nature of Contemporary Soviet Commodity Production

Ernest Raiklin and Charles C. Gillette

The purpose of this second part of this special issue is to contribute to a better understanding of the nature of Soviet society. It is not possible to analyse such a…

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The purpose of this second part of this special issue is to contribute to a better understanding of the nature of Soviet society. It is not possible to analyse such a society in all its complexities within the space of one study. There are, however, some economic relations which determine society's major features. We believe that commodity‐production relations in the Soviet Union are of this type.

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International Journal of Social Economics, vol. 15 no. 5/6
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014109
ISSN: 0306-8293

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Publication date: 2 September 2016

An Alternative to Shareholder Value Creation: Subverting the Domination of Capitalist Exchanges through the Production of Uses and Common Pool Resources Management ☆

Bernard Paranque

This chapter reconsiders commonly held views on the ownership and management of private property, contrasting capitalist and simple property, particularly in relation to…

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Purpose

This chapter reconsiders commonly held views on the ownership and management of private property, contrasting capitalist and simple property, particularly in relation to how a firm shareholder governance model has shaped society. This consideration is motivated by the scale and scope of the modern global crisis, which has combined financial, economic, social and cultural dimensions to produce world disenchantment.

Methodology/approach

By contrasting an exchange value standpoint with a use value perspective, this chapter explicates current conditions in which neither the state nor the market prevail in organising economic activity (i.e. cooperative forms of governance and community-created brand value).

Findings

This chapter offers recommendations related to formalised conditions for collective action and definitions of common guiding principles that can facilitate new expressions of the principles of coordination. Such behaviours can support the development of common resources, which then should lead to a re-appropriation of the world.

Practical implications

It is necessary to think of enterprises outside a company or firm context when reflecting on the end purpose and means of collective, citizen action. From a methodological standpoint, current approaches or studies that view an enterprise as an organisation, without differentiating it from a company, create a deadlock in relation to entrepreneurial collective action. The absence of a legal definition of enterprise reduces understanding and evaluations of its performance to simply the performance by a company. The implicit shift thus facilitates the assimilation of one with the other, in a funnel effect that reduces collective projects to the sole projects of capital providers.

Originality/value

Because forsaking society as it stands is a radical response, this historical moment makes it necessary to revisit the ideals on which modern societies build, including the philosophy of freedom for all. This utopian concept has produced an ideology that is limited by capitalist notions of private property.

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Finance Reconsidered: New Perspectives for a Responsible and Sustainable Finance
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2043-905920160000010023
ISBN: 978-1-78560-980-0

Keywords

  • Private property
  • collective action
  • cooperative
  • liberalism
  • exchange value
  • use value
  • B5
  • P13
  • Z13

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Article
Publication date: 8 July 2019

Privatising land in England

Antonia Layard

This paper aims to analyse the extent to which privatising – or denationalising land – has legal and policy effects.

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Purpose

This paper aims to analyse the extent to which privatising – or denationalising land – has legal and policy effects.

Design/methodology/approach

It applies the law in context scholarship to the question of land privatisation.

Findings

Of all the recent privatisations in England, the most valuable, and yet least recorded, is of land. According to one estimate, two million hectares or 10 per cent of the Britain landmass, left the public sector for private ownership between 1979 and 2018. Privatisations include land that is sold, leased or where a public body changes its status. This paper aims to explore these privatisations, considering them as denationalisations, concluding that the effects are most significant in housing where the differences between social and private renting in relation to rents, the security of tenure and housing quality are striking. Moreover, although other public law restraints on the state-owned property are often limited, they are also still significant, facilitating scrutiny, particularly in combination with the public sector equality duty or site-specific duties for libraries, allotments or playing fields. All the sites disposed of to private developers, landlords and companies have lost these protections.

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This is the first time this question has been considered in this way from a legal perspective.

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Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law, vol. 11 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JPPEL-03-2019-0009
ISSN: 2514-9407

Keywords

  • England
  • Land
  • Privatization
  • Private property
  • Public property
  • State property

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Publication date: 1 March 2001

Property Journals Index 1990‐2000

K.G.B. Bakewell

Compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals published by MCB University Press: Facilities Volumes 8‐18; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes…

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Compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals published by MCB University Press: Facilities Volumes 8‐18; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes 8‐18; Property Management Volumes 8‐18; Structural Survey Volumes 8‐18.

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Structural Survey, vol. 19 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/0263080X200100001
ISSN: 0263-080X

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