Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index.
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Paradoxes of Property -- 2 From Title to Entitlement -- 3 Property and Social Relations -- 4 Systemic and Distributive Norms -- 5 Reparation -- 6 Expectations and Obligations -- Notes -- Index
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Singer offers a new view of property and the entitlements and obligations of its owners. The book argues against the conventional understanding that owners have the right to control their property as they see fit, with few limitations by government. Instead, property should be understood as a mode of organising social relations. The book focuses on the ways in which property law reflects and shapes social relationships. It contends that property is a matter not of right but of entitlement - and entitlement is a complex accommodation of mutual claims.