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Further towards a theory of the emergence of property

Abstract This article explores the emergence of property as a moral convention. To understand this process I make use of several laboratory experiments on property in its nascence. These experiments illustrate how a rule of property arises from our knowledge of what is morally right, and not vice versa. I also argue that while theContinue reading “Further towards a theory of the emergence of property”