And this social construct often does provide us with a default form of economic institutions.
But private property is not a government created construct, it is a social construct.
All in all, the sort of social construct that would give Mitt Romney a Hemiplegic migraine.
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But the Nationalists' Mr Wishart argued that Britishness was an "invention and a social construct".
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Like so many things we take for granted, race is a social construct.
It exists today as a social construct first, and a legal construct second.
The book starts by explaining the tragic social construct that Derman lived with as a child: apartheid in South Africa.
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But it also seems pretty obvious to me that the basic concept of private property is a social construct rather than a government one.
After all, the social construct of private property is a basic one, and in the real world laws need to be precise and often complex.
Eventually, they hope to create an entirely new social construct online.
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The study had nothing to do with humans or autism, which is determined in part as a human cultural and social construct, but autism gets two mentions in the story.
But in reality the institution of marriage exists outside any laws, and in fact our understanding of marriage as a social construct bounds what we consider to be acceptable or unacceptable laws about marriage.
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The belief that women are biologically destined to be domestic and subordinate is just a construct, created by psychologists and social scientists, and used as an ex-post-facto justification for inequality.
He also called for increased efforts to build and distribute fairly the 36 million units of affordable "social housing" that the government has pledged to construct over the next five years to help meet demand from migrants and ease property prices.
Those who really believed it would advocate taxing the poor more to give to the rich: those who use the entire construct simply to support their pre-extant desire to tax the rich (or reduce inequality, increase social justice, fill in your favourite phrase here) would not.
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