Introduction : from vice to the virtue of owning private property -- Exit, or evict : re-grounding rights in need -- Bargaining demolition : when needs and desires meet -- Investing citizens : embracing desires and risks -- Affective ownership : situating rights in desires -- The property...

In spite of problems since reunification Germany remains the most important economy in Western Europe, and is the lynchpin of European security. The East German states must be successfully integrated into the German economy if the country is to remain stable and play its full role within an...