Property Rights and the Making of Christendom
William Kingston
The contemporary turmoil in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union reflects acceptance by their populations that collectivism has failed them they have more to hope for from property rights systems of West. In economic terms, indeed, Western culture depended fundamentally on these rights, recent years historians been paying increasing attention them. doing so, however, encountered a problem which are unable solve within terms own discipline: economics relies concept agents who act only according rational self-interest, but as can actually be found history often reflected forces described altruism. Economics is now therefore having take account cultural factors formation deeper studied clearer religious influence appears be.The earliest type must form “exclusive communal” which, establishing some defence against “outsiders,” prevented latter sharing resource tribe considered belong it. It plausible historical shift hunting gathering settled agriculture development such rights. However, extent lead prosperity quite limited.
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