Commodity & Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776-1970

by Gregory S. Alexander

Book Overview

Most people understand property as something that is owned, a means of creating individual wealth. But in Commodity and Propriety, the first full-length history of the meaning of property, Gregory Alexander uncovers in American legal writing a competing vision of property that has existed alongside the traditional conception. Property, Alexander argues, has also been understood as proprietary, a mechanism for creating and maintaining...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226013537
• ISBN13: 9780226013534
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"