Property Rights

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George Ford Smith

Most people believe that the state is a necessary entity for securing private property rights. However, a study of the American West before the territories became states shows us a different reality where communities protected their property without state intervention.

Daniella Bassi

Do we need government to referee all of our property disputes? Throughout history, people have peacefully resolved disputes without the help of state authorities. 

Wanjiru Njoya

What are property rights and how do we define them? The late Butler Shaffer argued that they come from our “will to own.”

David Gordon

In a recent symposium on Murray Rothbard's For a New Liberty, philosopher Matt Zwolinski takes issue with Rothbard on Murray’s views of freedom and property rights.

Soham Patil

Private property rights are under fire by progressive elites — even as those same elites protect their own property fiercely. But without these rights, a functioning economy is not possible.

Wanjiru Njoya

In publicly opposing apartheid, William H. Hutt saw how legal segregation kept black South Africans from pursuing legitimate economic goals. To Hutt, apartheid deprived people of equality of economic opportunity, which kept them in poverty.