Private Property

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. 

How much of the spectrum should be privatized? All of it, writes B.K. Marcus. Even the vast "beachfront property" held by the military? Yes, all of it.

Plymouth Colony before 1623 had the opposite of the Thanksgiving spirit. The pilgrims practiced a primitive form of socialism and almost starved as a result.

Recorded 10/16/2004 at Radical Scholarship: The Guerrilla Movement for Liberty.

The newest political cliché offered up by the Republicans speaks of the need for an "Ownership Society." To those of us who support private property, it might sound good at first. But let us think about this before embracing it.

How much of the spectrum should be privatized? All of it, writes B.K. Marcus. Even the vast "beachfront property" held by the military? Yes, all of it. 

Is the state’s power of eminent domain necessary in a free society? Walter Block and Richard Epstein debate the topic.

Hernando de Soto says that the poor need property rights but he provides no theoretical grounding for such rights, writes Gabriel Calzada.

Free markets shift resources from where they are less valued to where they are most valued, benefiting consumers. When private property and free markets are allowed to operate, a natural conservation of resources occurs. Nothing is a resource unless it is useful to man.

Gary Galles draws attention to writings that heavily influenced 18th century American politics.