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 (C)</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 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is corporate equity?

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

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