Abstract: This entry provides a concise introduction and a brief guide to relevant sources on the concept of property in the history of Western political thought. It offers a theoretical framework, traces continuities and discontinuities in political thinking on property since antiquity, and emphasizes the changing conceptions and normative valences of property. The survey includes ancient political thought, early-modern natural jurisprudence, Enlightenment thought and classical political economy, Marxism, and anarchism.
Abstract: This chapter examines the institutional, discursive, and political economic dimensions of the postwar regime of development. In addition to discussing the twentieth-century approaches to development, such as modernization, dependency, basic needs, and human development, it offers an extended treatment of the ideological antecedents of “development” in natural law theories on property, classical political economy, late-industrialization, and the Mandate System. It is argued that the central axis connecting the development regime to its historical antecedents is a particular politics of universalism that belongs to the history of capitalism and European colonial empires.