Property Rights

David Gordon's review of Kevin Vallier's new book on social trust, which offers several useful defenses of property rights. Originally published in the _Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics_.

Andrea Togni contends that privacy is one of the best weapons to defend property rights. Making property invisible is crucial to keeping it safe.

While personal autonomy is a major topic of conversation, for Rothbard the most important thing is liberty, and liberty and automony are not always the same.

While personal autonomy is a major topic of conversation, for Rothbard the most important thing is liberty, and liberty and automony are not always the same.

Proponents of socialism claim that it promotes ownership "by the people." Yet the people that actually control resources and production are not the same people who allegedly are the "rightful owners" in society

Tate Fegley joins Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop to discuss how customers are increasingly forced to navigate their economic behavior with a business's ideological values.

By compensating slave owners for the abolition of slavery, Great Britain ended the scourge of chattel slavery long before it was ended in the Americas.

Economists often deplore the corruption in developing countries, but when institutions are corrupt, don't expect people to have the incentive to be honest.

By compensating slave owners for the abolition of slavery, Great Britain ended the scourge of chattel slavery long before it was ended in the Americas.

Economists often deplore the corruption in developing countries, but when institutions are corrupt, don't expect people to have the incentive to be honest.