Table of Contents

1. The right to private property: a justification John Kekes; 2. Classical natural law theory, property rights, and taxation Edward Feser; 3. The natural right of property Eric Mack; 4. Property and justice David Schmidtz; 5. Property and rights Jan Narveson; 6. Embodiment and self-ownership Daniel C. Russell; 7. Self-ownership and world ownership: against left-liberalism Richard J. Arneson; 8. The uneasy relationship between democracy and capital Thomas Christiano; 9. Real-world luck egalitarianism George Sher; 10. Coercion, ownership, and the redistributive state: justificatory liberalism's classical tilt Gerald Gaus; 11. Adam Smith and the great mind fallacy James R. Otteson.

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The essays in this volume address questions of property ownership and principles of justice.

About the Author

Ellen Frankel Paul is Deputy Director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center and professor of political science at Bowling Green State University. She is the author of Moral Revolution and Economic Science; Property Rights and Eminent Domain and Equity and Gender: The Comparable Worth Debate, and also the editor of numerous scholarly collections.