TY - BOOK ID - 93035628 TI - The property species : Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind PY - 2020 SN - 0190936827 0190936800 0190936819 PB - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Property KW - Cognitive grammar. KW - Social aspects. KW - Cognitive linguistics KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Primitive property KW - Economics KW - Possession (Law) KW - Things (Law) KW - Wealth KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:93035628 AB - What is property, and why does our species happen to have it? The Property Species explores how Homo sapiens acquires, perceives, and knows the custom of property, and why it might be relevant for understanding how property works in the twenty-first century. Arguing from some hard-to-dispute facts that neither the natural sciences nor the humanities - nor the social sciences squarely in the middle - are synthesizing a full account of property, this book offers a cross-disciplinary compromise that is sure to be controversial: All human beings and only human beings have property in things, and at its core, property rests on custom, not rights. ER -