Private Property

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.

Interviewed by host Redmond Weissenberger, Mark Thornton discusses the real estate and job markets.

There is controversy on the Indian River in southe

Mark Thornton discusses the unintended consequences of gun control legislation as an illustration of prohibition economics.

Recorded at Mises University 2013.

“There are two types of ethically invalid land titles: “feudalism,” in which there is continuing aggression by titleholders of la

Classical liberals like Friedrich Hayek and Richard Epstein have often claimed that the rule of law imposes strong constraints on the state's regulation of private property.
 

“As a reflection of this fundamental realism—anti-utopianism—of his private-property anarchism, Rothbard, unlike most contemporary political

As Professor Block makes clear, “there is no intrinsic conflict between the market and the environment.”

From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.