Land-Locked: A Critique of Carson on Property Rights

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07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Roderick T. Long

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Dialogue between the so-called “capitalist” and so-called “socialist” branches of free-market libertarianism has declined. The publication of Kevin Carson’s Studies in Mutualist Political Economy provides a welcome opportunity to renew the conversation.

Volume 20, Number 1 (2006)

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Long, Roderick T. “Land-Locked: A Critique of Carson on Property Rights.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 20, No. 1 (2006): 87–95.

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