Private Property

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.

The central ideas of contemporary libertarianism have taken many centuries to evolve.

This paper will discuss the emergence and shortcomings of Yugoslav market socialism.

This paper by Carl Watner discusses the property rights of Native Americans.

Volume 7, Number 1 (1983)

If law exists only where there are state-backed courts and codes, then every primitive society was lawless.

It is impossible at the present time to present a systematic, coherent description of the ancient Irish law of property.

Among the most popular and consequential beliefs of our age is the belief in collective security.