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1 online resource (354 pages) |
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| Contents |
Cover; Property Law and Social Morality; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I A Unified Theory; 1 Property's Values; 1.1 Values as Inputs; 1.2 The Theory Summarized; 1.3 Contemporary Property Theory; 1.3.1 Corrective Justice; 1.3.1.1 The Principle of Equality.; 1.3.1.2 Equality in Corrective and Distributive Justice.; 1.3.1.3 Unity of Private Law through Burdens and Benefits.; 1.3.2 The Role of Law and Economics; 1.3.2.1 The Coasian Revolution.; 1.3.2.2 Externalities and Transaction Costs.; 1.3.3 The Evolution of Property and State. |
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1.3.3.1 The Polar Positions. 1.3.3.2 Communitarian Theory.; 1.3.4 Institutional Analysis; 1.3.4.1 The Essentialism Debate.; 1.3.4.2 Comparative Institutional Analysis.; 1.3.4.3 Information Cost Theory.; 1.4 Conclusion; 2 An Overview of the Theory; 2.1 Decision Making; 2.2 Social Recognition; 2.2.1 Judicial Recognition; 2.2.2 Legislative Recognition; 2.3 Other-Regarding Decisions; 2.4 Appropriate Assignment of Burdens and Benefits; 2.4.1 Trespass; 2.4.2 Nuisance; 2.4.3 Coordination between Concurrent Decision Makers; 2.4.4 Coordination over Time between Sequential Owners; 2.4.4.1 Contract Law. |
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2.5 Role of Private and Public Law2.6 Conclusion; 3 Owner as Decision Maker; 3.1 Property Essentialism; 3.2 Decisions as a Mediating Device; 3.3 Decision Making and Law Making; 3.4 Conclusion; 4 Ownership and Social Recognition; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Belief Systems and Institutional Evolution; 4.3 What Belief Systems Matter?; 4.4 The Evolution of Property; 4.4.1 The Violence/Norm Development Trade-Off; 4.4.2 Evolution from the Commons: The Demsetz Theory; 4.4.3 The Co-Emergence of Sovereignty and Property; 4.5 The Evolution of the Market; 4.6 Conclusion; 5 Other-Regarding Decision Making. |
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5.1 The Rational Person and Other-Regarding Decisions5.2 Other-Regarding Decisions and Legal Duty; 5.2.1 The No-Duty Principle; 5.2.2 Duty; 5.3 Other-Regarding Decisions and Deontic Obligations; 5.4 Conclusion; 6 Assigning Burdens and Benefits; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Fault Principle; 6.3 The Requirements of Equal Freedom; 6.3.1 Shared Responsibility, Avoidable Harm; 6.3.2 Unilateral Responsibility: Unavoidable Harm; 6.4 The Methodology of Moral Decisions: The Veil of Ignorance; 6.4.1 Comparative Individual Valuations; 6.4.2 Neutral Valuations; 6.5 Conclusion; Part II Applications. |
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7 Exclusion7.1 Exclusion as No-Duty; 7.2 Limitations on Exclusion and an Owner's Duty; 7.2.1 Obligations Implied by Use; 7.2.2 Obligations Implied by Purchase: Historical Usage; 7.2.3 Necessity and Private Takings; 7.3 Remedies in Exclusion Cases; 7.4 Conclusion; 8 Nuisance: Spatial Coordination; 8.1 The Conceptual Framework; 8.1.1 The Conceptual Problems; 8.1.2 The Framework of Interdependent Decisions; 8.2 Duty and the Domain of Nuisance; 8.3 Avoiding Social Costs through Reasonable Decisions; 8.3.1 Where an Activity Takes Place; 8.3.2 Decisions about How an Activity Is Done. |
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8.4 The Distribution of Unavoidable Costs. |
| Summary |
This book develops a theory of property that highlights the social construction of obligations that individuals owe each other. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Right of property -- Social aspects.
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Right of property -- Social aspects. |
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Right of property. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gerhart, Peter M. Property Law and Social Morality. New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2014 9781107006454 |
| ISBN |
9781107723634 |
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1107723639 |
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1306376327 |
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9781306376327 |
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9781107731769 (electronic book) |
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1107731763 (electronic book) |
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9781139035187 (electronic book) |
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1139035185 (electronic book) |
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9781107728257 (e-book) |
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1107728258 (e-book) |
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9781107006454 |
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1107006457 |
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