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  The Philosophical QuarterlyVolume 54 Issue 217, Pages 537 - 556 Published Online: 16 Sep 2004 Journal compilation © 2010 The Editors of The Philosophical Quarterly
Abstract | References | Full Text: PDF (Size: 109K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Who Owns the Product? Copyright The Editors of The Philosophical Quarterly, 2004 ABSTRACTIf persons fully own themselves and can acquire, by unilateral acts, unconditional full property rights to previously unowned natural resources, then by these same principles of property they also own the products of their property and of their labour. But (a) the principles of property are silent on the question of the division of joint products; (b) the market is a form of cooperation in production which makes the total social product a joint product. In the circumstances of an unrestrained fully developed market, therefore, it is not fully determinate what one's product is. Thus the holdings that each person ends up with cannot be justified merely in terms of ownership of products. I offer an explanation of why some may resist this view of the market. | 
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