Some General Remarks on Private Property

Economics > General Economics [Submitted on 16 Jun 2026] Title:Some General Remarks on Private Property View PDFAbstract:Private Property is one of the central institutions of civilized society. We first consider its social, legal, and economic aspects. We then follow the Lockean tradition by focusing on a specific procedural definition: Homesteading is the acquisitive act of first using an object that is initially unowned. The ontology of concrete objects and the nature of their uses determine how objects may be acquired. In this article, we address the open-texture problem in the definition of property, then provide the necessary conditions for an object to be property in the Lockean Scheme. Current browse context: econ.GN References & Citations Loading... Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Recommenders and Search Tools Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs.