Property Rights

Financial engineering doesn’t create any real wealth.

Rothbard’s principal conclusion that libel and slander laws have no place in libertarian law is correct. But how does a reputational right operate? Who, properly, owns such a right? Is this property right alienable—transferable, and how would this work in practice?

What is the correct analysis, from a libertarian point of view, of governmental action in the face of the coronavirus? Is the state justified in imposing quarantines or vaccines to cure this disease?

The freedom of association argument is a strong argument against open borders and thus libertarians are not necessarily committed to unrestricted immigration.

Agents have rights to stop those who are violating their rights and to rectification when their rights are violated. But in pursuing these rights, agents may also have an obligation to inform others of the extent to which they are prepared to go in enforcing these rights. 

The slave is a slave because his body is owned by someone else, and that owner is not the rightful owner. Slavery is theft, and theft is also slavery. Slavery exists wherever theft exists, and socialism is theft writ large.

Untangling the libertarian concepts of interpersonal liberty, this article proposes a new paradigm of libertarianism to solve the old one's problems.

Every day, more and more Americans are awakening to the reality that the institutions in control of this nation are failing them.

Radio Rothbard is a weekly podcast hosted by Ryan McMaken and a rotation of Mises Institute-aligned experts to dive deeper into some of th

Recordings of the 2021 Austrian Economics Research Conference at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, March 19-20, 2021.