Property for People, Not for Profit: Alternatives to the Global Tyranny of Capital

by Franz J. Hinkelammert, Ulrich Duchrow, Franz J Hinkelammert

Book Overview

The issue of private property and the rights it confers remain almost undiscussed in critiques of globalization and free market economics. Yet property lies at the heart of an economic system geared to profit maximization. The authors describe the historically specific and self-consciously explicit manner in which it emerged. They trace this history from earliest historical times and show how, in the hands of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke in particular,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842774794
• ISBN13: 9781842774793
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.5"