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Law, property, society and the state government (some naive thoughts and questions)
A while back, in a context I can&#;t exactly remember, I made the point, which seemed to me to be obvious, that all property rights are derived from governments, and so it&#;s impossible to sustain a claim that government interference with property rights is inherently wrong. It rapidly became apparent that this point is controversial in all sorts of ways, so I thought it might be worthwhile to work out where the main lines of disagreement run.
The great thing about a blog like CT is that, on (almost) any topic, lots of my co-bloggers and readers know more than I do, and most aren&#;t shy about saying so. So, please point me to the relevant literature (about my only reference point here is James C Scott).
I&#;ll with the classic approach of defining my terms.
* Property is a right of control over and use of objects (and, in slave societies, other people) recognised as lawful in a given society
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Igort’s Japanese Notebooks: Fragments of the Unsaid
INTRODUCTION
GAOHENG ZHANG
Following a successful conference and exhibition focused on Italy and China at the University of Toronto in , Mario Mignone at Stony Brook University and Gaoheng Zhang at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) organized a new conference centered on Italy and East Asia at Stony Brook during October , Conference participants responded to our call enthusiastically. On October 11, Elizabeth Zanoni of Old Dominion University and Yong Chen of the University of California at Irvine delivered the keynote speeches which explained the global dimensions and local inventions of Italian and Chinese food cultures to an enthusiastic crowd. On October , more than 40 presenters gave talks on topics ranging from religion to creative arts, from translation to current affairs, and many more.
Titled "Italy and East Asia: Exchanges and Parallels," this conference intended to recapitulate and advance the s
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Just passed the 13, word mark on my current book about Machiavelli and municipal politics, this weekend. So far, I have gone through explanations of Chapters of The Prince. The Prince has 26 chapters, so I&#;m about 40% of the way through my analysis, more or less on track for a 35,, word book.
It&#;s a little tough in places ansträngande to passform Machiavelli&#;s words and ideas to modern issues and themes, but so far I think I&#;ve done a fair job of finding betydelsefull metaphors, issues and events. The next chapter, on ecclesiastical states, might be a bit of a stretch, since their relevance today fryst vatten minimal, so I suspect I&#;ll need to conflate a couple of chapters here.
[pullquote]It&#;s a little tough in places trying to fit Machiavelli&#;s words and ideas to modern issues and themes. [/pullquote]I hope to have the core material written over the next two weeks.I&#;m working with several translations of The Prince, but the core ämne I&#;m quoting comes from the public domain Marri