Property Rights and Legal Implications
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What is the primary social link between a human being and the process of producing and distributing wealth?

  • Collective ownership
  • Competitive marketplace
  • Private property (correct)
  • Decentralized power
  • What is the key to distributive justice, assuming economic values are set democratically and freely in a competitive marketplace?

  • Participation in work
  • Private property (correct)
  • Decentralized power
  • Collective ownership
  • Why is decentralized power essential for safeguarding against the corruptibility of concentrated power?

  • Because power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely (correct)
  • Because individuals have a definable private property stake in the corporation
  • Because power naturally follows the ownership of property
  • Because property determines who has the right to share in profits
  • What is property?

    <p>The rights, powers, and privileges that an individual enjoys in his relationship to things</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the rights of property?

    <p>Possessing, excluding others, disposing or transferring, using, enjoying the fruits, profits, product or increase, and destroying or injuring</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is corporate equity?

    <p>The form of shares of common stock</p> Signup and view all the answers

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