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by Tom Bethell

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Tom Bethell

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978-0333741818

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0333741811

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English

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Palgrave Macmillan (August 24, 1998)

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Law

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Business

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The Noblest Triumph book. In The Noblest Triumph, Tom Bethell looks at the history of property rights and shows that the key role played by the institution of private property has been misunderstood by Western elites for more than a century.

This book is a thorough, lively, and almost encyclopedic defense of private-property rights. In this benighted age, there are not too many of those around. Ranging far and wide, Bethell shows the benefits of private property throughout history and in virtually every corner of the globe. feudalism, and the third world.

Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity through the Ages (1998) St Martin's Press. Tom Bethell explains why property matters. Tom Bethell, Beliefnet Columnist Beliefnet. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science (2005) Regnery Press. Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher (2012) Hoover Institution Press. Biography at Property Rights Foundation of America, Inc. ^ "2 California Papers Lead Loeb Awards".

Tom Bethell here gives us a broad survey, dealing with economic, political, and legal theory; episodes of economic and .

Tom Bethell here gives us a broad survey, dealing with economic, political, and legal theory; episodes of economic and political activity; and assessments of institutional constraints and procedures from ancient Greece to virtually the day before yesterday. Since the fiasco in the Garden of Eden, we have lived in a world of scarcity. Bethell persuasively argues that private property is a necessary (but not a sufficient) condition for a society to enjoy the four great blessings of liberty, justice, peace and prosperity. Some origins of private property are found in Roman law, but our heritage comes mainly from long-developing English common law.

Examination of property and the environment, for example, proceeds from the bald . One explanation is that Bethell, unlike many economists and all libertarians, recognizes that property rights are a function of political authority.

Examination of property and the environment, for example, proceeds from the bald assertion that ""private ownership is conducive to a more careful stewardship than public ownership,"" without considering externalities and whether regulations are needed to protect one property owner from another. One explanation is that Bethell, unlike many economists and all libertarians, recognizes that property rights are a function of political.

ISBN: 0312223374; In The Noblest Triumph, Tom Bethell looks at the history of property rights and shows that the key role played by the institution of private property has been misunderstood by Western elites for more than a century. Beginning with the ancientGreeks and arriving at the present day, Bethell looks at basic ideas about property found in the writings of Plato, Adam Smith, Blackstone, Bentham, Marx, Mill, and others.

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In The Noblest Triumph, Tom Bethell looks at the history of property rights and shows that the key role played by the institution of private property has been misunderstood by Western elites for more than a century. Beginning with the ancient Greeks and arriving at the present day, Bethell looks at basic ideas about property found in the writings of Plato, Adam Smith, Blackstone, Bentham, Marx, Mill, and others

The Noblest Triumph Property and Prosperity Through the Ages.

Cia

Tom Bethel has brilliantly and succinctly explained why the Constitution's protection of man's private property rights is indeed our Noblest Triumph. Prayerfully, our next President will realize this truth. If not, I fear "Progressives" will destroy individual wealth and in the process destroy this blessing from our Creator. Stalin, Hitler, Mao and countless minor depots have tried really hard to "make socialism work" and failed. Tom bethel explains why they and Modernity's "progressives" are on a fool's errand. This book is a "must read" for anyone claiming to be a student of history or political thought.

Muniath

The point in Tom Bethell's excellent book that struck me most was his discussion of experiments in abolishing private property. Well, yes, we all know that with the exception of religious orders, they have uniformly come to bad ends--from the Oneida community to the Israeli kibbutzim to the Soviet Union. The striking point was that these socialist utopian communities and theories also attempted to abolish religion and the family.
Now, you don't have to be an anthropologist or a theologian to suspect that these utopians were in their common hostility identifying fundamental elements of human nature, or as the Founders put it, that men are endowed by their creator with rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
As the discussion of utopian theories and communities indicates, the Noblest Triumph is an intellectual history of the idea of property as well as a history of the human consequences of the ways different societys have made it more or less secure. Bethell makes clear that the assault on property is far from over. In fact the age of private property has been in decline since about the time that Jeremy Benthem called it man's "noblest triumph", as theorist after theorist has tried to deconstruct it and separate it from its roots in human nature. Marx, of course, declared against historical evidence that the legal system was inevitably determined by economic relationships, and then proposed that economic relationships be reformed by changing the law.
In this respect Bethell is, especially for a writer, curiously soft on protecting intellectual property--a topic that is in the information age only in the early stages of development. Granted the difficulties in actually retaining control of intellectual property, it is surprising to find him arguing against giving it the same protections as any other forms of property. It is an argument that I find unpersuasive.
Aside from that, Bethell recreates how step by mendacious step our legal system has been changed to diminish the rights of ownership, through taxation, regulation, and tort law. It is a chilling story, but recommending it to public officials, elected or unelected, will do little good. They are the principal agents and beneficiaries of these changes; they would probably take the sad tale as a matter for self-congratulation.

Carrot

Nothing demonstrates the ignorance of the last generation of legal theorists about property than the Supreme Court decision of Kelo v. New London. That this decision could have been made after publication of Bethell's Noblest Triumph is surprising. Bethell does an outstanding job of explaining the history and theories of property in a very readable manner, even though his book is worthy of being required reading for college courses. To avoid the horrible results that Justice O'Conner correctly foresees from Kelo, this book should be required reading for all college students through summer reading programs, if colleges still have such programs.

Vudojar

This is one of the best books I've ever read.

Grinin

Excellent book. I must add that the Publisher's Weekly review is mistaken about the book's discussion of China. There is a very thorough discussion of China, Mao's communist regime, the resulting famines, and how the re-establishment of property rights led to its present economic growth. The whole story of China, as told by Tom Bethel, strongly supports the role of private property in creating prosperity. It remains an authoritarian state, but the important issue is private property, which China has.

Mallador

This book is very insightful. As previous reviewers have mentioned, there are numerous examinations of the application of property rights and lack thereof throughout history.

However, though his central thesis is on the necessity of property, even Bethell admits that sometimes property rights do not work as efficiently as they should (in the case of intellectual property). He puts forth an idea or two on the why, but that topic is not examined further than a chapter.

I sat on this review for months, because I felt like that piece of the analysis of property rights was missing. Then, I had my a-ha! moment. I read "Gridlock Economy", which is essentially an examination of the how and why property rights can become an inefficient solution. I would recommend reading that book, along with this, in order to have a thorough and (mostly!) complete understanding of property rights.

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