The Meaning of Property: Freedom, Community, and the Legal Imagination

by Jedediah Purdy

Book Overview

From the bestselling author of For Common Things, a brilliant and ambitious rethinking of the meaning of property in democratic society

In his latest book, Jedediah Purdy takes up a question of deep and lasting importance: why is property ownership a value to society? His answer returns us to the foundations of American society and enables us to interpret the writings of the patron saint of liberal economics, Adam Smith, in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300171447
• ISBN13: 9780300171440
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"