Sublime

But there are far more serious issues here than merely trying to protect some treasured object, some particular ritual or a preferred corner of social life from the monetary calculus and the short-term contract. For at the heart of liberal and neoliberal theory lies the necessity of constructing coherent markets for land, labour, and money, and

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THE PARLIAMENT that passed the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 was alive to the pressing need, in bomb-cratered Britain, for bricks and mortar. If the post-war governments, Labour and Tory, had a consistent north star, it was building homes. Winston Churchill, returned to office in 1951, listed his priorities as “houses, red meat and not

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In an 8–1 decision recitedad nauseum by land use lawyers ever since, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. acknowl-edged that public regulation of private property without compensation is neces-sary and constitutional under certain circumstances: “The general rule at least is,that while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too... See more

In the United States in 1907, a book entitled Three Acres and Liberty seized the imagination of the reading public. The author, Bolton Hall, began by taking for granted the awkwardness of having to work for someone else, and so told readers that they could regain their freedom by leaving their offices and factories and buying three acres of

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