Annales. Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym / Annales. Ethics in Economic Life 2017 Vol. 20, No. 2, May 2017, 89–101 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1899-2226.20.2.07
Karolina Szczepaniak
Krakow Univesity of Economics e-mail: kszczepaniak25@wp.pl
The Approach to Ownership in Poland after 1989 in the Light of the Political Philosophy of Liberalism
The political philosophy of liberalism created by Locke and Nozick treats property as a birth right, the natural right of man. The attitude to ownership in Poland is determined by the experience of individuals having been deprived of the right to property during the communist period and the restitution of property rights in the post-communist era. The guidelines of the liberal concept of property refer in the text to contemporary phenomena of attitudes to property in the area of spatial economy and the housing market.The paper attempts to indicate the need to rede- fine contemporary attitudes to property.
Keywords: property, liberalism, political transformation, homo sovieticus, proper- ty rights, absolutism
JEL Classification: N34