Economic freedom in fact reduces unemployment to levels significantly below those in less free countries. The Amish may hold the secret to full employment, but rejection of modern capitalism is full employment in poverty and hardship, not the rich fruits of progress.
Not only are there no human rights which are not also property rights, but the former rights lose their absoluteness and clarity and become fuzzy and vulnerable when property rights are not used as the standard.
There is no such thing as a right to privacy except the right to protect one's property from invasion.
The absolute right to run away is the child's ultimate expression of his right of self-ownership, regardless of age.
Seems the Communist Chinese have a better grasp of the sanctity of property rights than many US municipalities.
Delivered to the Forestry Leadership Program at Auburn University; Auburn, Alabama, on 17 January 2007.
