ABSTRACT
This should not be surprising. It is an unexamined premise of our liberal market polity that individual interests are paramount, especially with respect to property rights, and that the strictest protection of these rights yields the common good. The idea o( communities having sovereign, indivisible interests, and needs, especially when it comes to property, seems alien. Schooled as we are in market ideology, we have trouble understanding that community wealth can generate distinctive forms of value-economic, social, and personal-that the market cannot.
