Private Property

Bob Murphy and Stephan Kinsella discuss the basis of libertarian law, and how we could have justice without a coercive State.

Because enforced contract law and full property rights are the foundations of freedom, governance systems should be based on enforceable contracts that defend property rights.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty. No matter whether it is their intention or not, almost anything that the rich can legally do tends to help the poor.

The fallacy that labor-saving machines create technological unemployment has not only been disproved by theory but also by the whole history of mankind.

Ryan McMaken joins the Human Action Podcast for a deep dive into Mises's definitive book on liberal society.

The radicals advocated the right of the slaves to rebel, either individually or en masse, and to resort to violence in their own self-defense, and to call on those outside the slave system to come to their assistance.

Jeff Deist and Dr. Joe Salerno examine Ludwig von Mises's views on nationalism and immigration.

In this 90-minute 1981 lecture, Walter Block discusses the importance of allowing private markets — and not government planners — to decide how land and housing is used by those who buy, sell, and rent it.

Henry Hazlitt has done us a great service, for it is a rare philosopher who recognizes that the consistent adherence to a set of ethical rules promotes social cooperation and benefits everyone in society.

Regulation is simply the way in which self-interested public officials provide benefits to self-interested individuals who form interest groups. This is as true in land use as in anything else.