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Property : Values and Institutions by Dagan, Ḥanokh is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Property: Values and Institutions , by Hanoch Dagan, offers an original understanding of property, different from the dominant voices in the field, yet loyal to the practice of property. It rejects the misleading dominant binarism in which property is either one monistic form, structured around Blackstone's (in)famous formula of sole and despotic dominion, or a formless bundle of rights. Instead, it conceptualizes property as an umbrella for a set of institutions bearing a mutual family resemblance. It resists the prevailing tendency to discuss property through the prism of only one particular value, notably efficiency. Dagan argues that property can, and should, serve a pluralistic set of liberal values. These property values include not only autonomy and utility, which are emphasized by many contemporary scholars, but also labor, personhood, community, and distributive justice. Dagan claims that property law, at least at its best, tailors different configurations of entitlements to different property institutions, with each such institution designed to match the specific balance between property values best suited to its characteristic social setting. Dagan develops this theor

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Dagan, Ḥanokh
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9780199876327
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Law, Business, Business, Commercial & Financial Law

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