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.
A Critique of Mutualist Occupancy
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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The Mask Comes Off
Congresswoman Maxine Waters on what she’d like to do with the oil industry:
The Decline of the Rule of Law
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 Essence of Freedom
The pleaders for statism insist that while all-powerful government might be inherently bad under a despot or dictator, it can be a perfectly wholesome thing under democratic auspices with the principle of majority rule.
Economics of Oblivion
Economics does have exactitude, qualitative, not a quantitative. We cannot know the number or size of all the cakes in the world, or when they will be eaten, but we can know that whoever eats his cake no longer has it.
The School of Salamanca Saw This Coming
For the priests writing in Spain 500 years ago, to regulate the interest rate through a centralized authority would be to presume that one man could know that of which only God has certain knowledge.
The Rise of the Great but Abstract Evil
To accomplish its purpose, the state gradually seized total control of the monetary system. Van Creveld is, with Murray Rothbard, one of the few historians who sees the centrality of this control.
What Is the Proper Way to Study Man?
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.
What Is Free Trade?
There would be no need to fight for free speech, free press, free worship, or free soil, if nobody had put restraints in those matters. We never should have heard of free trade, if no restrictions had ever been put on trade.
