The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind by Bart J. Wilson
By Timothy Sandefur
New York: Oxford University Press, 2020
230 pp. $35 (paperback)
Bart Wilson’s The Property Species is a witty, thought-provoking, sometimes frustrating book that offers what one might call an anthropology of private property. It’s not a book about “property rights,” Wilson insists, but about the origins of property as a cultural institution. Drawing on hi…
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