Property Rights

Kevin Vallier's new book is a valuable contribution to "public reason liberalism," introducing useful arguments for strengthening private property rights.

This new turn toward obedience to expert-fueled executive power didn’t appear from nowhere. Society has long been moving toward a model of society in which outcomes are more important than the protection of natural rights. 

When we think in terms of the foundational law of property, it's clear that broad charges of aggression through infection are spurious at best.

Many people want the state to take the lead in revitalizing run-down towns. How does this make sense, when it is private industry that conceived these towns in the first place?

Michael Huemer has recently come up with some cases in which taxation is justified. Is it, though?

When we think in terms of the foundational law of property, it's clear that broad charges of aggression through infection are spurious at best.

Do people have a duty of distributive justice, leaving the state aside?

Many people want the state to take the lead in revitalizing run-down towns. How does this make sense, when it is private industry that conceived these towns in the first place?

Recorded at Mises University 2021.

Analyzing property rights in Nigeria from a Rothbardian point of view shows that the major reason for poverty in Nigeria is governmental neglect and abuse of property rights.