Property

<p>Property: Values and Institutions by Hanoch Dagan offers an original understanding of property different from the dominant voices in the field yet loyal to the practice of property. It rejects the misleading dominant binarism in which property is either one monistic form structured around Blackstone's (in)famous formula of sole and despotic dominion or a formless bundle of rights. Instead it conceptualizes property as an umbrella for a set of institutions bearing a mutual family resemblance. It resists the prevailing tendency to discuss property through the prism of only one particular value notably efficiency. Dagan argues that property can and should serve a pluralistic set of liberal values. These property values include not only autonomy and utility which are emphasized by many contemporary scholars but also labor personhood community and distributive justice.</p>