Filozofija i drustvo 2018 Volume 29, Issue 2, Pages: 219-238
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1802219S
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On the blinding clarity of property rights: Seven fragments of reductionism in the theory of property
Stojanović Aleksandar
This paper presents a historical commentary on arguments in theory of
property that reinforce the vision of strong and clear property rights
dominant in developmental policy today. Building upon the article from
Duncan Kennedy in 2013 that analyses this vision, this paper tackles
additional issues in emergence of the vision. In doing that the paper relies
on broadly genealogical approach to focus on a binary opposition that has
been present in the theory of property almost since its historical
establishment in Western thought. This methodology allows us to
conceptualize the problem in more substantive terms than Kennedy does and
show how radical shift is necessary to overcome the problems that the vision
entails.
Keywords: property, economic development, exclusion, rights