The Right to Exploit: Parasitism, Scarcity, and Basic Income

by Gijs Van Donselaar

Overview

In 1895 an English farmer diverted the course of a stream that was flowing through his land, thereby cutting off the supply to the water reservoir of the neighboring community. The courts established that it had been his purpose to "injure the plaintiffs by carrying off the water and to compel them to buy him off."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195140392
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	06/09/2009
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

1. Abuse of Rights, Abuse of People
2. Without Me, Without You: Cooperation and Scarcity
3. The Benefit of Another's Pains: Original Acquisition and Parasitic Action
4. Clamshell Rent? Use, Usurpation, and Usury
5. S(h)elling Labor: The Right to Work
6. Against Real Unfreedom: Equality and Neutrality

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