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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