Property Rights

Inflation is not just an economic phenomenon. It also undercuts the foundations of a civilization, leading to the breakdown of society itself.

Inflation is not just an economic phenomenon. It also undercuts the foundations of a civilization, leading to the breakdown of society itself.

As Murray Rothbard’s views on individual liberty progressed, he increasingly embraced men like Richard Weaver and John Randolph, who both stressed the importance of private property rights and political decentralization.

It’s with the advice of Austrian economists that MAGA can avoid falling into the kinds of errors that seem to create prosperity but only set the stage for recession and thereby intensify the very problems they claim to be trying to solve. 

James Bovard makes a case that private property is the bulwark of liberty—spotlighting how courts, cops, and bureaucrats chip away at it.

Free speech is not an ideological issue. As Murray Rothbard noted, it really is an issue tied to private property rights.

On this episode of Power and Market, the roundtable promotes our Mises Institute fall campaign, bashes Attorney General Pam Bondi, has little sympathy for Jimmy Kimmel, and questions Trump's recent comments on Russia and Afghanistan.

Equal protection laws supposedly protect individual rights by guaranteeing the law protects everyone equally. However, Murray Rothbard noted that these laws often are used to suppress those rights.

A common objection to anarcho-capitalism is that only the state can offer workable defense services to people through police and the armed forces, as private defense agencies would have an incentive to be at constant war. This objection, however, is not valid.

Thanks to massive economic intervention by South Africa’s government, both crime and poverty are soaring as the society slowly implodes. Police protection is almost nonexistent, so many South Africans are turning toward private security as an alternative.