Private Property

The fact that opponents of private property rights have managed to frame the debate over health-care mandates as some sort of religious issue is on

A result of a complex system of subsidies and other government favors, it is unclear that fracking would be sustainable in a truly free marketplace.

Defenders of government coercion often claim that residence within a state’s boundaries imply consent to be taxed and regulated by the state in question. While one can expect to be robbed by the state regardless of where one lives, this is not the same as consenting to be robbed.

Butler Shaffer's contribution to libertarian legal theory and an indispensable guide to a vital topic.

Mark Thornton critiques Thomas Piketty's recent bestseller, and explains why capitalism is not the problem, nor are taxation and redistribution of wealth the solutions.

Interviewed by host Redmond Weissenberger, Mark Thornton discusses the real estate and job markets.

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Mark Thornton discusses the unintended consequences of gun control legislation as an illustration of prohibition economics.

Recorded at Mises University 2013.

“There are two types of ethically invalid land titles: “feudalism,” in which there is continuing aggression by titleholders of la