Introduction -- The world according to property -- 1. The miracle ingredient -- 2. The property-owning democracy -- 3. The values of value -- 4. The reality of realty -- 5. Developer kings -- 6. City of Monads -- The philosophy of property -- 7. Property is heft -- 8. A convenient fiction -- 9. Possession and domain -- What else could there be? -- 10. Life in common -- 11. Community and cooperation -- 12. The visible hand -- 13. Imagine a country -- Conclusion.

A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of kleptocrats and oligarchs. In Britain, it has led to a new class division between those who own and those who don't.Property is a vivid, far-reaching analysis of our concept of property ownership, from 16th-century enclosures to the present day. It tells powerful stories - of life in the developer-led boomtown of Gurgaon in India, of the struggles to form Black communities in Missouri and Georgia, of a giant experiment in co-operative living in the Bronx, of the impacts of Margaret Thatcher's ""property-owning democracy." Above all, Property asks how we have come to view our homes as investments - and it offers hope for how things could be better, with reform that might enable the social wealth of property to be returned to society.