A careful reading of Locke's notions about property development, spoilage, and so on, might lead you to conclude that he would be opposed to "excessive" capitalist development of real estate (i.e., say a Donald Trump tower on Miami-Dade wetlands), or perhaps the reverse.

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The name of the book is : Locke, Second Treatise

A careful reading of Locke's notions about property development, spoilage, and so on, might lead you to conclude that he would be opposed to "excessive" capitalist development of real estate (i.e., say a Donald Trump tower on Miami-Dade wetlands), or perhaps the reverse. Explore to what extent you think Locke's ideas in The Second Treatiseare significant for arguments for or against large-scale real-estate development. This option provides an occasion to apply Locke's ideas (especially in Chapter V) to the contemporary reality of land development that we see all around us in South Florida. Is development always "industrious and rational," as Locke seems to imply, or can it sometimes represent "the covetousness of the quarrelsome and the contentious"? (Section 34). Does development always serve the common good or does it sometimes, or often, serve only the wealthy? (As with Option One: do not answer these questions per se; they are offered as brainstorming cues.) If you have some facts about Trump or South Florida real-estate from the internet, you may use them (in which case cite your source): this is an exception to the "no research" instructions above, and in general you should not be taking up much paper space with such.