Private Property

Philosophy has fathered a number of other sciences. It is, as we all know, the father of physics which used to be known as natural philosophy.

This book is a thorough, lively, and almost encyclopedic defense of private-property rights.  In this benighted age, there are not too many of those around.

Court decisions and legislation have a profound impact on the economy because they define and modify property rights. Economists have therefore always been interested in analyzing this impact.

In Who Owns the Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On, UCLA law professor Stuart Banner examines how the United States moved from the ad coelom rule

As I see matters, private-property rights are of crucial importance to civilization.  They are what distinguishes us from the barbarians.  To the extent we give in to the enemies of property rights, we reduce ourselves.

Time preference, one of the fundamental concepts of economics, is the ratio between the present values of present and future goods. Mises (1949) holds that time preference is the only reason 

To analyze the feasibility of applying the Coase Theorem, this article uses two traditional arguments, economic calculation and non-neutral effects, found in the Austrian literature. 

oth the establishment of property rights and their violation spring from actions: acts of appropriation and expropriation. However, in addition to a physical appearance, actions also have an internal, subjective aspect. 

Changes in ownership titles are essential to understanding competitive dynamics and, more broadly, the market process. There is ample evidence that a crucial source of productivity growth,

It is taken for granted by most economists and political philosophers that John Locke was in some sense a precursor of the labor theories of value