Capital and Interest Theory

Volume 17, Number 1 (Spring 1997)

Are there individual rights to one’s intellectual creations, such as inventions or written works? Should the legal system protect such rights?

In this article, Walter Block reviews Bryan Caplan’s The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies.

The theory of property specifies how to determine which individuals own—have the right to control—particular scarce resources.

In section 1 we will discuss the property rights aspect of public works in The Wealth of Nations.

Patents and copyrights are forms of immaterial “property” that grant to their owners exclusive control over the production and sale of a specified

We hear a lot of expressed concern about conserving the environment, but no one talks much about producing it.

Harvard professor of philosophy, John Rawls, can be credited with provoking the most recent angst over the issue of intergenerational equity.

In this article, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe discusses immigration, natural order, and private property.

Volume 16, Number 1 (2002)

This article will explore the economics of legal tender laws, arguing that they are not only a necessary prerequisite of paper money, but also bene