Property as guarantor of liberty

Introduction; the hobbesian Jungle ; the tragic common; the partitioned commons, the rule of law and boundary crossings; alienability through contract: the emergence of market interdependence; market dependence, exploitation and justice in exchange; analytical illustration; learning by doing; forgetting by not doing; private property, market competition and freedom of entry and exity; professional and private images of markets; private ownership as own (self) production; private property in assets that yield money income; private property in money: inflation and the confiscation of value; socialism, private property and liberty; rerum novarum; the marxian proletariat and malthusian prophecy; final speculations; endnote