https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Ideology-of-Property https://booksandideas.net/The-Ideology-of-Property 2023-01-26T07:46:00Z text/html en Marc Goetzmann capitalism Philosophy property communal Cairn.info <p>Do individuals have absolute rights to the things they have labored on? It would seem to go without saying that the answer is “yes” – and yet, this principle can be called into question. A definition of private property requires us to be in agreement with each other – and therefore to share a set of common values.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Aporias-of-Property https://booksandideas.net/The-Aporias-of-Property 2020-02-10T08:00:00Z text/html en Jean-Fabien Spitz Philosophy History property French Revolution environmentalism communal <p>Private property is now sacred, and its strict definition prohibits the redress of inequalities and of environmental problems. But it was not always conceived in this way: It was invented by the French Revolution.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Price-of-the-Planet https://booksandideas.net/The-Price-of-the-Planet 2018-12-12T07:00:00Z text/html en Nicolas Bouleau Economy finance market environment nature Public Books communal <p>By setting the prices of raw materials, financial markets influence our relation to the environment. Nicolas Bouleau examines the environmental governance of these markets and invites us to shift our priorities away from economic logics toward a concern for nature and for the long term.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Confusion-on-the-Commons https://booksandideas.net/Confusion-on-the-Commons 2014-12-08T08:00:00Z text/html en Allan Greer Society History internet intellectual property communal <p>At a time when the issue of intellectual property dominates the Internet, the struggle for control of the digital universe is increasingly known as the “second enclosure movement” - a misleading moniker, argues Allan Greer.</p>