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PROPERTY AND THE CREATION OF VALUE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2015

Dan Moller
Dan Moller*
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Philosophy Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. Email: dmoller@umd.edu. URL: http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~dmoller/
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Abstract:

Following Locke, philosophical discussion of private property has tended to focus on the acquisition of natural resources as central. In this paper I first pursue the idea that the resource paradigm doesn't apply to most developed economies, and show how this creates problems for many accounts of property. My second ambition is to draw a normative conclusion by showing that redistribution of wealth generated in the context of services is more difficult to justify compared with the natural resource paradigm philosophers have often focused on.

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Propertyservice economydistributive justicenatural resources

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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 2017 , pp. 1 - 23
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