Property for people, not for profit
Subtitle: alternatives to the global tyranny of capital
By: Ulrich Duchrow & Franz J. Hinkelammert ; translated by Elaine Griffiths ... [et al. ; foreword by Konrad Raiser].
Contributors: Hinkelammert, Franz J. 1931-; Catholic Institute for International Relations.
Publisher: Zed Books in association with Catholic Institute for International Relations; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York, N.Y; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Property -- Philosophy.; Right of property.; Globalization.; Profit -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Description: 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, the notion of private property took on its absolutist nature and most extreme form - a form which neoliberal economics is now imposing on human.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-235) and index.