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Property Rights 3: Communal Property, Enclosure and the State
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Were classic (fee-simple) property rights an unintended side-effect of government's desire to tax? We look at communal property, private property, taxation and some of James C. Scott's ideas in his book Seeing Like a State.
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I guess that individual property is tied with individual freedom, because the will to possess -that is to make whatever you wish with some thing- seems atavistic and it is an important part of our idea of individual freedom. This atavistic will also involves some violence in the first appropriations, but if we try to abolish the individual property a sustained violence is needed to repress the natural tendency to possess and to act freely that all we carry inside.
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Are there articles on what went wrong in Zimbabwe's attempts at land redistribution?
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Thanks for adressing this interesting topic and identifying property rights as what they are: A controversial, theoretical construct in economics.
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