Three reasons why even good property rights cause moral anxiety.

From: William and Mary Law Review | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: Sherwin, Emily | Copyright information

Property is a vexing topic. Property rights play a central role in law and human life, but they are notoriously difficult both to define and to defend. Many ingenious arguments have been made over the years on behalf of private control of resources, but none seems fully satisfying as a justification for particular arrays of holdings or for the consequences of those holdings in hard cases.

My object in this Essay is to suggest several reasons why, entirely apart from the ...

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