institution of private property

"But at the same time, he understood that the Western market system, including the institution of private property was also unacceptable to him, politically.

Wells condemns the institution of Private Property as the source of this poverty.

Capitalist states share similar institutions, which are organized on the premise that the institution of private property advances the long-term interests of the people.

Hayek claims, for instance, that 'a people averse to the institution of private property is without the first element of freedom'.

Around this time from 1945-1950, United States and South Korean authorities carried out a land reform that retained the institution of private property.

To this end, the parties should consider strengthening the institutions of private property and property rights, privacy, personal initiative and promote healthy competition.

In 1627 Delano made the first recorded land sale in Plymouth after institution of private property (from his share of the 1623 land division).

This pronouncement on social policy upheld the institution of private property, but acknowledged that limitations might rightly be laid upon its rights so as to protect the poor and weak.

This was not the case with Morgan who seemed to have been more influenced by the Rousseauean tradition and who viewed the institution of private property with some misgivings.

As men lose their primeval glory distinctions of class (varna) arise and they enter into agreements with one another, accepting the institutions of private property and the family.

Marxist feminism is a sub-type of feminist theory which focuses on the social institutions of private property and capitalism to explain and criticize gender inequality and oppression.

This first chapter explores the basic thesis of Berle and Means, that with the emergence of the corporation, the very institution of private property has been fundamentally altered.

"The Revolution, that is to say, instead of denying or abolishing the institution of private property, affirmed it in an incomparably more positive, beneficial, permanent, and general form than had ever been known before."

A lot of institutions can be said to exist only because the government provides the framework for their existence; for instance, Marxists argue that the institution of private property only exists due to government.

Not that he preaches anything immoral, but he's always told me marriage is old-fashioned, an economic device to perpetuate the institution of private property, or something like that or anyway that he doesn't like it."

Citing economic efficiency, some economists suggest that the basic institutions of private property rights and contractual freedom are capable of resolving conflicts between the preferences of smokers and those who seek a smoke-free environment, without government intrusion.

But also the party system itself is credited by MacPherson as being chiefly responsible for the preservation of the institution of private property and the market mechanism, notwithstanding the extension of the franchise which took place during the nineteenth century.

The 5th century Mazdak movement in Iran has been described as "communistic" for challenging the enormous privileges of the noble classes and the clergy, criticizing the institution of private property and for striving for an egalitarian society.

Rousseau was one of the first modern writers to seriously attack the institution of private property, and therefore is sometimes considered a forebear of modern socialism and communism, though Marx rarely mentions Rousseau in his writings.

Freud also considered the view of communists, that it is the institution of private property which has corrupted man's nature, but that man is basically co-operative and good: people could be naturally well-disposed towards their neighbours if only private property was abolished.

But rather than meet this challenge, entitlement theorists simply take for granted that if original acquirers deserve any rights they deserve the full rights of liberal ownership, and hence assume, rather than demonstrate, the legitimacy of that which has to be justified: the institution of private property.

The initial course offerings covered legal studies, political studies, political economy, and historical studies, including The History of the Institution of Private Property, History and Principles of Commercial Ethics, and the History of Commerce in All Countries and at Every Age.

The most deeply spontaneous, the gut reaction, from every viewpoint except the destitute, or of a criminal ready to pay for the advantage of robbing by the risk of himself being robbed, or of the kind of anarchist who acclaims private theft as a blow to the oppressive institution of private property, is of being threatened.

This might not stop him reacting still more strongly in favour of theft, from the viewpoints of all who as an anarchist he believes to suffer from the institution of private property; but otherwise he has to put the danger on the same side of the scales as the slight loss to the old relative, against the great gain to himself.

Waldron refers to a justification of property along these lines as a right-based argument for private property, which he defines as 'an argument which takes an individual interest to be sufficiently important in itself to justify holding others (especially the government) to be under duties to create, secure, maintain, or respect an institution of private property'.