So you are retroactively applying the necessity of money and prices in calculation and planning argument to property?
Hmmm….
Engels wrote the seminal work on the origin of property in man.
Butler Sheaffer wrote the seminal work on its universality.
Haidt’s bibliography contains dozens of explanations of its evolutionary origin.
Evolutionary Biology (Axelrod) explained its necessity (cooperation).
And….
As for calculation, Weber stated that this was the future of all disciplines:calculation.
Simmel in his ‘philosophy of money’ provides the necessity of money.
Mises restates Simmel as an argument against socialism in his failed attempt at operationalism in economics (praxeology).
As far as I know the origin of possession is pre-human.
The need to defend self.The need to possess territory and defend nests or offspring.
The origin of the habit of property is necessary for any independent but cooperative organism to prevent disincentive to cooperate.
The origin of the norm of private property is to keep assets within families during inheritance.
The origin of the law of private property is to prevent retaliation cycles.
The origin of contract is to allow cooperation and planning across time.
The origin of money and prices is to allow calculation and commensurability.
The origin of property RIGHTS is the common law by which disputes were settled
The criteria of dispute settlement arose in parallel to the granularity of property (tribe > family > generation > Individual)..
The criteria of dispute resolution at the individual level is investment.
The test of transfer of property is reciprocity, not only preserving investments but requiring gains.
So as far as I know the origin of property is the preservation of investment and the prevention of parasitism that leads to conflict in cooperating organisms. And that monetary calculation would be possible whether private, generational, familial, or tribal (common) property existed.
And as far as I know you are attempting to create a circular argument by stating that calculation that was made possible by property is the cause rather than property was a consequence of the scope of cooperation given the probability of retaliation, that is necessary to preserve that cooperation, such that individuals preserve the incentive to invest and save.
In other words, the origin of property is the commons at each incremental scale.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-14 12:26:00 UTC
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