Inability to Abandon Property in the Civil Law
In Copyright is very sticky!, I noted how it’s hard to get rid of copyright. There is a somewhat similar aspect to modern property law.
In Copyright is very sticky!, I noted how it’s hard to get rid of copyright. There is a somewhat similar aspect to modern property law.
In my contribution What Libertarianism Is in the Hoppe Festschrift, Property, Freedom and Society, I included a very long footnote (23) critiquing the mutualist “occupancy” view of property rights and, specifically, Kevin Carson’s contention that this is compatible with libertarianism. A edited excerpt from the article on this issue is provided below.
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters on what she’d like to do with the oil industry:
Political wisdom, dearly bought by the bitter experience of generations, is often lost through the gradual change in the meaning of the words which express its maxims.
The enormous prestige gained by physics in advancing our knowledge of the material world has led to the uncritical transfer of the methods appropriate in the natural sciences to the study of actions of men.