States and surplus; empires and trade; fiefs and vassals; and the pathologies of bureaucracy.
Love this paper, and the fascinating impact of the Roman law of absolute ownership (cf common law ownership)
Thanks very much for the question in the Zoominar. Made me focus on the why.
So it’s something I always talk about with students, when I teach property law. The common law fragmentation of title cf “dominion.”
Orlando Patterson argues that the Roman notion of property as absolute dominion was deeply connected to the divide between citizen and slave. I did not like his idea when I first read it, but I am now more inclined to think there is something to it.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674986909
I am the outlier. Byzantine Empire is the standard moniker in the scholarship.
You can make bureaucracy work for you, but it’s hard.
Love this paper, and the fascinating impact of the Roman law of absolute ownership (cf common law ownership)
Thanks very much for the question in the Zoominar. Made me focus on the why.
So it’s something I always talk about with students, when I teach property law. The common law fragmentation of title cf “dominion.”
Orlando Patterson argues that the Roman notion of property as absolute dominion was deeply connected to the divide between citizen and slave. I did not like his idea when I first read it, but I am now more inclined to think there is something to it.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674986909
I am the outlier. Byzantine Empire is the standard moniker in the scholarship.
You can make bureaucracy work for you, but it’s hard.