Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Property and Pragmatism
ONE Property and Personhood 35
TWO Residential Rent Control 72
{HREE Problems for the Theory of Absolute
Property Rights 98
FOUR The Liberal Conception of Property: Crosscurrents in the
Jurisprudence of Takings 120
FIVE Diagnosing the Takings Problem 146
Government Interests and Takings: Cultural Commitments
of Property and the Role of Political Theory 166
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SEVEN The Rhetoric of Alienation 191
Notes 203
Index 253
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