{"product_id":"the-prehistory-of-private-property-implications-for-modern-political-theory-9781474447430","title":"The Prehistory of Private Property: Implications for Modern Political Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book debunks three false claims commonly accepted by contemporary political philosophers regarding property systems: that inequality is natural, inevitable, or incompatible with freedom; that capitalism is more consistent with negative freedom than any other conceivable economic system; and that the normative principles of appropriation and voluntary transfer applied in the world in which we live support a capitalist system with strong, individualist and unequal private property rights. The authors review the history of the use and importance of these claims in philosophy, and use thorough anthropological and historical evidence to refute them. They show that societies with common-property systems maintaining strong equality and extensive freedom were initially nearly ubiquitous around the world, and that the private property rights system was established through a long series of violent state-sponsored aggressions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12167451\"\u003eKarl Widerquist\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16098413\"\u003eGrant S. McCall\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474447430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474447430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL002000\"\u003ePublic Policy | City Planning \u0026amp; Urban Development\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL024000\"\u003ePublic Policy | Economic Policy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL029000\"\u003ePublic Policy | Social Policy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarl Widerquist is Professor of Political Philosophy at SFS-Qatar, Georgetown University. He is co-editor of \u003ci\u003ePrehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e(with Grant S. McCall, Edinburgh University Press, 2017), \u003ci\u003eBasic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research\u003c\/i\u003e (with Yannick Vanderborght, Jose Noguera, and Jurgen De Wispelaere, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), \u003ci\u003eExporting the Alaska Model: Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform around the World\u003c\/i\u003e (with Michael W. Howard, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2012), \u003ci\u003eThe Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee\u003c\/i\u003e (with Michael Anthony Lewis and Steven Pressman, Ashgate, 2005) and co-author of \u003ci\u003eEconomics for Social Workers: The Application of Economic Theory to Social Policy and the Human Services\u003c\/i\u003e (with Michael Anthony Lewis, Columbia University Press, 2002). He was a founding editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eBasic Income Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, and he has published dozens of scholarly articles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrant S. McCall is Associate Professor in Anthropology at Tulane University, as well as the director of the Center for Human-Environmental Research, a New Orleans-based nonprofit research institute aimed at exploring and improving human responses to environmental change. His publications include \u003ci\u003ePrehistoric Myth and Modern Political Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (co-editor with Karl Widequist, Edinburgh University Press, 2017), \u003ci\u003eStrategies for Quantitative Research: Archaeology by Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e (Routledge, 2018) and \u003ci\u003eGlobal Perspectives on Lithic Technologies in Complex Societies\u003c\/i\u003e (co-editor with Rachel Horowitz, University of Colorado Press, 2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44586332061933,"sku":"9781474447430","price":58.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_46c22769-63df-4f2a-ae65-29499d86fb14.jpg?v=1702178273","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-prehistory-of-private-property-implications-for-modern-political-theory-9781474447430","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}