Property in the Commons: Origins and Paradigms

Obeng-Odoom, F

Property in the Commons: Origins and Paradigms

Obeng-Odoom, F

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Citation:: Review of Radical Political Economics, 2016, 48 (1), pp. 9 - 19
Issue Date:: 2016-03-01

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dc.contributor.author	Obeng-Odoom, F https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3997-7751	en_US
dc.date.available	2014-04-21	en_US
dc.date.issued	2016-03-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Review of Radical Political Economics, 2016, 48 (1), pp. 9 - 19	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0486-6134	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/36104
dc.description.abstract	© 2015, © 2015 Union for Radical Political Economics. This paper reflects on historical debates about creating property in the commons and how the debaters have approached the topic. It does so by systematizing existing insights, especially those provided by Richard Schlatter in his book, Private Property: A History of An Idea (1951). The analysis shows that Hardin’s widely quoted paper is not the founding essay that attacked the commons. Also, it demonstrates that there is no “property rights approach” in political economy but several property rights approaches not only between heterodox and orthodox political economy but also within heterodox perspectives. The evidence is clearly that not much has changed in the debates about the commons except, perhaps, the geographical emphasis and the identity of the dramatis personae fanning the attacks on the commons, but not the economic interests supporting the decimation and dissipation of the commons.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Review of Radical Political Economics	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/0486613415586976	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Economics	en_US
dc.title	Property in the Commons: Origins and Paradigms	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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Abstract:

© 2015, © 2015 Union for Radical Political Economics. This paper reflects on historical debates about creating property in the commons and how the debaters have approached the topic. It does so by systematizing existing insights, especially those provided by Richard Schlatter in his book, Private Property: A History of An Idea (1951). The analysis shows that Hardin’s widely quoted paper is not the founding essay that attacked the commons. Also, it demonstrates that there is no “property rights approach” in political economy but several property rights approaches not only between heterodox and orthodox political economy but also within heterodox perspectives. The evidence is clearly that not much has changed in the debates about the commons except, perhaps, the geographical emphasis and the identity of the dramatis personae fanning the attacks on the commons, but not the economic interests supporting the decimation and dissipation of the commons.

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