“as Gerald Gaus notes,private property rights can themselves be decomposed into bundles of rights and allowances.”
This too often gets missed. “Rights” are generally viewed as axiomatic, pre-defined, and unchangeable. This limited view of rights is held for different conceptions of rights, creating a lot of overlapping claims and conflict. Yet instead Rights are complex and require state specification.
It’s not about “property rights vs no property rights”, but what kind of property rights for whah circumstances. There are many principles and dimensions of property rights (first in time, productivity, possession, etc.) that need to be reconciled before we can specify what our property rights are.
“as Gerald Gaus notes,private property rights can themselves be decomposed into bundles of rights and allowances.”
This too often gets missed. “Rights” are generally viewed as axiomatic, pre-defined, and unchangeable. This limited view of rights is held for different conceptions of rights, creating a lot of overlapping claims and conflict. Yet instead Rights are complex and require state specification.
It’s not about “property rights vs no property rights”, but what kind of property rights for whah circumstances. There are many principles and dimensions of property rights (first in time, productivity, possession, etc.) that need to be reconciled before we can specify what our property rights are.