Robert C. Ellickson
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Unpacking the Household: Informal Property Rights Around the Hearth
As Aristotle recognized in The Politics, the household is an indispensable building block of social, economic, and political life. A liberal society grants its citizens far wider berth to arrange their households than to choose their familial and marital relationships. Legal commentators, however, have devoted far more attention to the family and to marriage than to the household as such....
Nov 6, 2006