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Restoring the Commons: Toward a New Interpretation of Locke’s Theory of Property

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John Locke’s theory of property, described in his Second Treatise on Civil Government, exerts a strong but often unacknowledged influence on environmental economics, providing justification for many of our discipline’s norms and practices. This paper examines how Locke’s Enlightenment-era thesis has informed our understanding of the relation of the individual and the state to environmental amenities. While Locke has been used to justify a libertarian view that treats any form of environmental regulation as a ‘‘taking,’’ elements of Locke’s original argument can be understood to subject individual rights claims to constraints requiring intra- and intergenerational sufficiency and sustainability.

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  • Rebecca P. Judge, 2002. "Restoring the Commons: Toward a New Interpretation of Locke’s Theory of Property," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 78(3), pages 331-338.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:landec:v:78:y:2002:i:3:p:331-338
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    • K11 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Property Law
    • Q2 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation

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