The Public Interest

The new property

Charles A. Reich

Spring 1966

The institution called property guards the troubled boundary between individual man and the state. It is not the only guardian; many other institutions, laws, and practices serve as well. But in a society that chiefly values material wellbeing, the power to control a particular portion of that well-being is the very foundation of individuality.

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