Undergraduates

 

1. What is a Private Property? Comment on the exclusive use of property by individuals in a modern industrial society. What problems do the exclusive use principle entail and how can, or have such problems been resolved amicably.

 

 

Graduate Students

 

1.  Critically examine the following rationales for justifying property rights in society along the lines of arguments put forward by Rousseau and John Locke.

     a) Labor justification of private property 

     b) Economic justification of private property

     c) First occupancy justification of private property

     d) Personal liberty argument for private property