Private Property
Patents and Copyrights: Do the Benefits Exceed the Costs?
Patents and copyrights are forms of immaterial “property” that grant to their owners exclusive control over the production and sale of a specified
Is The Wealth of Nations’ Third Duty of the Sovereign Compatible with Laissez Faire?
In section 1 we will discuss the property rights aspect of public works in The Wealth of Nations.
Kant and Property Rights
Kant’s account of property rights is embedded within his general ethical system, centered on the Categorical Imperative described in the Ground
Communism and the Ironic Value of Property in Italian Neo-Realist Cinema
This paper will explore in depth the issues raised in La Terra Trema (“The Earth Trembles,” 1948).
Against Intellectual Property
Are there individual rights to one’s intellectual creations, such as inventions or written works? Should the legal system protect such rights?
Land-Locked: A Critique of Carson on Property Rights
Dialogue between the so-called “capitalist” and so-called “socialist” branches of free-market libertarianism has declined.
The Territorial Assumption: Rationale for Conquest
The classic definition of the State involves two elements: a coercive monopolization of defense services over a given geographic area, and the impo
The Spooner-Tucker Doctrine: An Economist’s View
In this article, Murray N, Rothbard discusses Lysander Spooner and Benjamin R. Tucker's anti-State doctrine and how it affected his ideological development.
The Enterprise of Community: Market Competition, Land, and Environment
We hear a lot of expressed concern about conserving the environment, but no one talks much about producing it.