Property Rights

Murray Rothbard based much of his work on property rights, and in this piece, Ludovico Lumicisi applies Rothbardian thinking to the technology of our digital age.

Murray Rothbard’s For a New Liberty is a classic at bringing together the foundations of Austrian Economics and libertarian thinking.

The original western values such as juridical equality, political freedom, natural rights, and religious tolerance are being co-opted into a system of “positive” rights that are socially and morally destructive.

Murray Rothbard’s system was built upon the natural rights of individuals, and tying liberty to property and ownership, not collectivism.

Murray Rothbard’s system was built upon the natural rights of individuals, and tying liberty to property and ownership, not collectivism.

Issues of homelessness and vagrancy in public spaces and on public transportation are made worse because government ownership of the property does not allow for exclusion. Instead, we get the “tragedy of the commons.”

Dr. Catherine Pakaluk connects the dots between fiat money, the sexual revolution, and collapsing birthrates, arguing that a culture built on “sterile” choices can’t sustain real, long-run growth.

A number of countries, including Great Britain, has “right to roam” policies in which people are permitted to go onto private property, often against the owner’s wishes. This is nothing more than giving people a license to trespass.

The question of who owns the Middle East is ongoing and will never be resolved, not in the current political climate.