Private Property

In this article, Murray N, Rothbard discusses Lysander Spooner and Benjamin R. Tucker's anti-State doctrine and how it affected his ideological development.

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

Dialogue between the so-called “capitalist” and so-called “socialist” branches of free-market libertarianism has declined.

The classic definition of the State involves two elements: a coercive monopolization of defense services over a given geographic area, and the impo

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2014.

The fact that opponents of private property rights have managed to frame the debate over health-care mandates as some sort of religious issue is on

A result of a complex system of subsidies and other government favors, it is unclear that fracking would be sustainable in a truly free marketplace.

Defenders of government coercion often claim that residence within a state’s boundaries imply consent to be taxed and regulated by the state in question. While one can expect to be robbed by the state regardless of where one lives, this is not the same as consenting to be robbed.

Butler Shaffer's contribution to libertarian legal theory and an indispensable guide to a vital topic.

Mark Thornton critiques Thomas Piketty's recent bestseller, and explains why capitalism is not the problem, nor are taxation and redistribution of wealth the solutions.