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- Title
Public Ownership.
- Authors
Dorfman, Avihay
- Abstract
The two questions I seek to address in these pages are what is public property and why does it matter. Public property, like property more generally, is a powerful legal arrangement of allocating control and use rights with respect to resources. Unlike private property, public property does not establish normative powers with which private individuals can shape their practical affairs in and around social spheres such as housing, work, commerce, and worship. Rather, its distinctive value lies in extending autonomous agency to the construction of public spaces and resources. Public property places individuals in a position of collective self-government, manifested in the following two particular ways: first, expressing the ideas and commitments that the political community as a whole affirms; and second, exerting control over the construction and direction of the resources that make up the environment they occupy.
- Subjects
GOVERNMENT ownership; GOVERNMENT property; HOUSING; POLITICAL community; COMMERCE
- Publication
Law & Philosophy, 2024, Vol 43, Issue 3, p303
- ISSN
0167-5249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10982-023-09488-8