Commodity & propriety
Subtitle: competing visions of property in American legal thought, 1776-1970
By: Gregory S. Alexander.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
Subjects: Property -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Property -- United States -- History; Civil society -- United States -- History
Other titles: Commodity and propriety
Description: "Most people understand property as something that is owned, a means of creating individual wealth. But in Commodity & Propriety, Gregory S. 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. The real tradition in American legal thought about property can be discovered in the ongoing debate over the priority of the market versus the social good."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-470) and index.