On Tue, 2 May 2006 08:09:30 -0700, [log in to unmask] wrote:

>Interesting ramblings from somebody's blog:
>www.swans.com/library/art12/mgc181.html

" For much, if not most, of human experience, the idea of, much less practices
of, property were unknown; to a degree, unknowable. (1) How could something so
central to these times been so long unknown, unknowable to others? "

Another Myth.

All humans have concepts of individual and group property (cf Donald E. Brown -
Human Universals, McGraw Hill, 1991).

Hunter-gatherers have defined efficient property rights (cf Martin J. Bailey,
"Approximate Optimality of Aboriginal Property Rights", Journal of Law and
Economics, v.35, 1992).

From my reading of Daniel Quinn's works, a lot of it has a lot of holes, based
on a lot of such myths.    In other words, the usual method of first deciding
that one likes a point of view and then trying to make the actual world fit it.

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Cheers,

Ken