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Part 1 Property Rights, Object Powers and the Problem of Theft:Property Rights and Property Defined; Property Rights Triggers orElicitors; Scope of Property Rights; Property Rights Versus ObjectPowers; Theft Defined and Illustrated. Part 2 Production and PropertyRights: Production and Property Feelings; Natural Objects andProductive Activity; Settlers and Indians in New England - A CaseStudy; Locke's Mixing Methaphor and Proviso; Social Contracts andnatural Objects. Part 3 Exchange as Production: Nozick and Durkheim onExchange; Productive Activity and Exchange; Exchange as Production -The Evidence of Language and Ritual; Exchange as Production -Ethnographic Evidence; Exchange as Production - The Legal Treatment ofPromises; Antiquity of Exchange. Part 4 Alleged Limits on the Right toProperty: Desert and Productive Activity; What Does Society Deserve?;Harms and Rights; Private Property Versus Personal Property; EmploymentDiscrimination; Illicit Wealth and Original Sin; Gifts and Bequests.Part 5 Producers Versus Thieves: Right Makes Might; Ubiquity of theProperty Institution; Employer as Thief. Part 6 Biology, Ethology, andProperty: Evolution of Property Feelings; Property-Like Behaviour AmongNonhuman Animals; Animal Kingdom and Stateless Society; Human Natureand Morality; Moral and Immoral Competition. Part 7 A Reconsiderationof Natural Rights Theory: Producer's Right as Natural Right;Universalizability and Contractarianism; An Objection to EthicalNaturalism - The Open Question. Part 8 Alternative Economic JusticeRules: Types of Rules; Utilitarian Justice; Wealth MaximizationJustice; Fairness or Envy-Free Justice; Maximin Justice. Part 9Alternative Economic Justice Rules (Concluded): Blame-FreenessCatastrophic Allocations. Appendix: Money and Happiness.