Private property and the fear of social chaos / Aidan Beatty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beatty, Aidan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Right of property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2023]

Summary:

What do people imagine it means to live in a world where private property is dominant and what are their fears about living in a future world where it has disappeared? This book studies the recurring nightmare that various lumpen mobs could demolish private property. That threatened social chaos is the central unifying story of this book.

Contents:

Front Matter

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Theories

The invention of a new world

The poet of real property

The Moor's laboratory

Part II: Practices

The failure of free society

Privatised utopias

The Iron Lady's imaginary childhood

Epilogue: Interplanetary settler-colonialism

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Beatty, Aidan Private Property and the Fear of Social Chaos

ISBN:

9781526165718