Showing posts with label property rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label property rights. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 06, 2024

Weird Defenders of the Palestinians

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Weird: the Palestinians' advocates who as a rule are unenthusiastic (to put it mildly) about private property rights.
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Dissolving the Inkblot: Privacy as Property Right

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Foreword: I wrote this article when I worked for the Cato Institute in the early 1990s. I post it here because I think it is relevant to th...
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Friday, July 16, 2021

TGIF: Who's the Aggressor? Who's the Victim

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When a libertarian says that the most basic individual right is the right not to be aggressed against , a clever interlocutor may accuse the...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Latest Bits

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Just to catch up on a few things: This is my latest appearance with Scott Horton; we discuss Khaled Al Sabawi's efforts to establish ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Whose Money Is It?

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My latest column at the American Institute for Economic Research is about tax reform: "Whose Money Is It?"
Friday, July 21, 2017

TGIF: On Property and Aggression

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Some critics on the left enjoy faulting libertarians for believing that property is a bulwark against aggression. To the libertarian argumen...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Another Court Blow to Freedom

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My latest article at the American Institute for Economic Research is "Another Court Blow to Freedom."
Friday, April 03, 2015

TGIF: Libertarian versus Welfare-State Property Rights

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Last week I set out Auburn University philosopher Roderick Long’s argument that libertarianism can’t be reasonably dismissed as strange. ...
Monday, September 15, 2014

TGIF: Ownership and Ideas

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Like many libertarians, I’ve learned a lot from Murray Rothbard on a wide variety of subjects. Of course, no one gets everything right, esp...
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Friday, November 22, 2013

TGIF: Property and Force: A Reply to Matt Bruenig

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Last week’s TGIF, “ One Moral Standard for All ,” drew a curious response from Matt Bruenig , a contributor to the Demos blog, Policy Shop...
Friday, October 08, 2010

TGIF: Presidential Hubris

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If we were going to spend $700 billion, it seems it would be wiser having that $700 billion going to folks who would spend that money righ...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Debate Over the 1964 Civil Rights Act

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I will be participating in an online discussion about the appropriate libertarian position on the 1964 Civil Rights Act as part of the Cato...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Corporate Land Grab in Africa

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Much of the modern world has been shaped, alas, by governments' grabbing land from peasants and yeomen, whose families had worked it fo...
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Monday, June 15, 2009

IP Debate Breaks Out at FEE

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At a recent FEE seminar, a debate over intellectual "property" broke out spontaneously among Ivan Pongracic (second from right), P...
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Friday, June 12, 2009

TGIF: Intellectual "Property" vs. Real Property

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Intellectual “property” (IP) is a sleeper issue. It seems uncontroversial: Someone invents or writes something and therefore owns it. What c...
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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Individualism, Collectivism, and Other Murky Labels

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Imagine the following person. He believes all individuals should be free to do "anything that's peaceful" and therefore favors...
Sunday, November 04, 2007

Virtue versus Legal Obligation

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Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter and policy adviser to President George W. Bush, is the latest in a long line of political writers who...
Friday, August 17, 2007

The Natural Right of Property

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Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869), the English economics writer I discussed last week, is an enigma -- until his philosophy is seen in...
Wednesday, July 04, 2007

No Taxation Without Representation in Court!

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The July 4th holiday readily brings to mind the phrase “no taxation without representation.” A major reason for the Americans’ wish to be in...
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Sunday, June 24, 2007

America's Engineer

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No president is more despised by opponents of big government than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His New Deal is singularly blamed for introduci...