Private Property

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Clifford F. Thies

Clifford Thies asks: Can we really expect government to create quality cities using redistribution, government programs, and regulations? He shows that the worst cities in America are those that depend on government money and tax everyone to pay for it.

Ray Haynes

Ray Haynes read a dozen books in graduate school about how to plan for economic growth. Then he sat on a City Planning Commission.

Adam B. Summers

"Anti-mansionization" ordinances, writes Adam Summers, hit at a fundamental right that Americans have long taken for granted: the right to build or buy the biggest home you can afford.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Eminent domain is the best example of how government is not the protector of private property but its main violator, writes Lew Rockwell.

Bruce L. Benson

Mises convincingly argues that, given the existence of the long-run objectives instilled by private property rights, cooperation in the form of division of labor and trade emerge naturally; and therefore, under these circumstances, "there is no need to enforce cooperation by special orders or prohibitions."

Murray N. Rothbard
Modern variants of positive legal theory state that the law should be what the legislators say it is. But what principles are to guide the legislators?
Karen De Coster, CPA

While studying colonial period business practices and property rights issues, for a business & finance history class, I read Carl Watner’

Paul Servodio

Every winter of bad weather brings us the same scenes of bleak road and highway conditions. Paul Servodio suggests one fix: eliminate public ownership and all that goes with it.