Private Property

From the book For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, as narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Vedran Vuk, as an economics major, thinks that it's not such a bad thing to treat one's beloved like property, so long as it is private property.

The free market and the free price system make goods from around the world available to consumers. The free market also gives the largest possible scope to entrepreneurs, who risk capital to allocate resources so as to satisfy the future desires of the mass of consumers as efficiently as possible.

The Free Market 26, no. 10 (October 2005)

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

"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.

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

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."