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Most people understand property as something that is owned, a means of creating individual wealth.
But in Commodity and Propriety , the first full-length history of the meaning of property, Gregory Alexander uncovers in American legal writing a competing vision of property that has existed alongside the traditional conception. Property, Alexander argues, has also been understood as proprietary , a mechanism for creating and maintaining a properly ordered society. Acknowledgments Introduction Pt. You may purchase this title at these fine bookstores . Outside the USA, consult our international information page .