Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership by Andro Linklater

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Ranks with Piketty's "Capital" as a must read. Traces the effects of property ownership on human culture over the past 500 years.

The book is dense with information and is meant for an audience above the 12th grade reading level. But does not require a degree in either history or economics.

Linklater says that he started the book in 2009 in an attempt to come to terms with the financial collapse of 2007-8, but by the time he published in 2013 he was as current as today's New York Times.



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