Property in contemporary capitalism / Paddy Ireland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ireland, Paddy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Property.

Right of property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2024.

Summary:

This timely book contributes to discussions about the nature of property and capital in an era dominated by neoliberalism and resource privatization. Raising broad questions about the distribution of wealth and wealth inequality, it will set the agenda in modern property theory.

Contents:

Front Cover

Property in Contemporary Capitalism

Copyright information

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 From Thing-Ownership to Bundle of Rights to Social Relation

Property as thing-ownership: the Blackstonian conception

'Heroic reification': creating objects of property

The conceptual limitations of 'property' and 'ownership'

The rise of property as thing-ownership

From bundle of rights to social relation

Vanishing into thin air: property as a 'conceptual mirage'

3 The Dual Nature of Property

The revolution in property: institutionalising modern property

Private property, individual autonomy and identity

Personal possessions versus productive resources

Capital, capitalist and capitalism

Property-as-capital

The reconceptualisation of the joint stock company share

4 Profiting from the Efforts of Others

Capital and investment

Profiting from the ownership of productive resources

The rise of 'rentierism'

The new enclosures

Profiting from debt

The distribution of wealth and capital

The gender, racial and inter-generational dimensions of wealth inequality

Ownership of public debt

Rising private wealth, declining public wealth

Speculating on the future

5 Defending the Property Status Quo: Analytical Jurisprudence

The new essentialism: reviving property as thing-ownership

The ubiquity of property institutions

The dangers of abstraction

Dominium in Roman law

The idea of property in law

6 Defending the Property Status Quo: Law and Economics

The modern corporation and the threat to shareholder rights

Social democracy and the socialised corporation

Defending the rentier: the market for corporate control

Contractual theories of the corporation: reprivatising the public company.

The fictional corporation rematerialises

The rise of financialised corporate governance

Information cost theories of property

Facilitating the market: functionalism and efficiency

Property rights as 'special'

7 Safeguarding Property-as-Capital

Universalising capitalism

Historicising property: private property and capitalism

Creating property-as-capital

Prioritising the investor interest

The new aristocracy of finance

Containing democracy: the 'new constitutionalism'

Derisking new property

Neoliberal ideology versus neoliberal practice

8 Property and Social Transformation

Property as a historical category

Thing-ownership, bundle of rights or social relation?

The social relational dimensions of property

Bringing capitalism back in

Capitalism's logic of process

The moral logic of capitalism

Changing the logic: gradual transformative change?

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781529235814

1529235812

9781529235807

1529235804

OCLC:

1450007052