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Subject: Property: 19 records

The Philosophy of Ownership

Robert LeFevre
Updated 1/13/2012
The significance of property ownership has rarely been fully appreciated, writes Robert LeFevre. He proceeds to present the entire libertarian case for private ownership, with his characteristic clarity of exposition. He makes what is a radically...
Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 1/12/2012
Ridiculously low price! Murray N. Rothbard's great treatise Man, Economy, and State and its complementary text Power and Market, are here combined into a single edition as they were written to be. It provides a sweeping presentation of Austria...
Power and Market: Government and the Economy

Murray N. Rothbard
Updated 12/5/2011
What can government do to enhance social and economic well being? Nothing, says Murray N. Rothbard. Power and Market contains the proof. It will inoculate the reader against the even the slightest temptation to invoke the state as a solution to any s...
Economics for Real People

Gene Callahan
Updated 9/16/2011
The second edition of the fun and fascinating guide to the main ideas of the Austrian School of economics, written in sparkling prose especially for the non-economist. Gene Callahan shows that good economics isn't about government planning or sta...
On Doing the Right Thing

Albert Jay Nock
Updated 6/7/2011
This wonderful collection of essays by Albert Jay Nock, first published in 1928, includes his "Anarchist's Progress," "Thoughts on Revolution," "The Decline of Conversation," and other classics by this great American...
Out of Step

Frank Chodorov
Updated 3/11/2011
Frank Chodorov was a journalist of the Old Right with an extraordinary writing ability. He was also a top-notch intellectual figure who has been tragically neglected. This collection might be his best. Among the smashing essays here are: "Isolat...
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

Albert Jay Nock
Updated 3/11/2011
Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set out to write his autobiography but he ended up doing much more. He presents here a full theory of soci...
Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy, The

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Updated 8/11/2010
"Do not steal" is an excellent principle of ethics; it is also the first principle of sound economic systems. In our time, no one has done more than Hans-Hermann Hoppe to elaborate on the sociological implications of this truth. And this is...
Boundaries of Order: Private Property as a Social System

Butler Shaffer
Updated 6/25/2010
Private Property as a Social System Every once in a while, a treatise on libertarian philosophy appears that presages a new way of thinking about politics and economics. Mises's Liberalism, Rothbard's Ethics of Liberty, and Hoppe's Dem...
The Rise and Fall of Society

Frank Chodorov
Updated 5/15/2010
Frank Chodorov adored the work of Albert Jay Nock, particularly Nock's writings on the State. And so Chodorov set out to do something implausible: to rework the Nock book in his own style. Rothbard wrote of this book: "Frank's...
The Market for Liberty

Morris and Linda Tannehill
Updated 5/14/2010
Some great books are the product of a lifetime of research, reflection, and labored discipline. But other classics are written in a white heat during the moment of discovery, with prose that shines forth like the sun pouring into the window of a time...
The Discovery of Freedom

Rose Wilder Lane
Updated 5/14/2010
With new forewords by Roger Lea MacBride and Hans F. Sennholz What an American original was Rose Wilder Lane! What a treasure! She lived from 1886 until 1968, the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and widely considered a silent collaborator on t...
Liberty and Property

Ludwig von Mises
Updated 5/10/2010
In 1956, the Mont Pelerin Society was entering a difficult period in which its intellectual lights were drifting away from liberalism of the old school. Ludwig von Mises used his speech that year to explain why this was a terrible trend. He didn'...
1. The Prostitute

Walter Block
Updated 10/18/2009
1. The Prostitute Walter Block Defending the Undefendable...
Networks, Information, and Technology

Peter G. Klein
Updated 8/2/2008
Peter Klein Microsoft PowerPoint - Networks, Information, and Technology Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)...
God of the Machine

Isabel Paterson
Updated 11/6/2007
Isabel Paterson The God of the Machine...
Society Without Coercion

Jarret B. Wollstein
Updated 7/10/2007
Jarret B. Wollstein Society Without Coercion...
"On Property and Exploitation"

Walter Block
Updated 1/15/2007
Walter Block and Hans-Hermann Hoppe On Property and Exploitation Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Windows...
"Environmentalism and Economic Freedom: The Case for Private Property Rights"

Walter Block
Updated 1/15/2007
Walter Block Environmentalism and Economic Freedom Acrobat Distiller 3.0 for Windows...

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