April 27, 2012
The Evil of Bleeding Heart Libertarianism
Some dude name Todd Seavey thinks bleeding heart libertarianism is evil. See here and here. I’ve read those two posts a few times, and my most charitable reconstruction of his argument…
Month: April 2012
April 27, 2012
Land From The Ground Up
Our days are a vast, intricate, evolving dance of mutual understandings.[1. I’m cobbling together threads of articles I’ve written on property. Please visit http://www.davidschmidtz.com/ for more. I have never written…
April 26, 2012
On Burdens, Community, and Provisos
First, I would like to thank all those commentators who responded to what I wrote in “Natural Rights and Natural Stuff.” Second, I would like to clarify or restate a…
April 26, 2012
In Defense — Such As It Is — of Usufructory Land Ownership
I may be writing under false pretenses. Although I was invited here to make a case for the “occupancy-and-use” or usufructory land property theory of P.J. Proudhon, J.K. Ingalls and…
April 25, 2012
Self-Ownership and External Property
What kind of external property rights are consistent with self-ownership? It seems to me that once one acknowledges self-ownership, one cannot acknowledge any other rights unless those rights are themselves…
April 25, 2012
Progress or Poverty: The Economics of Land and Discovery
David Friedman recently wrote “One reason to respect natural rights is that it is a good thing to do, another is that respecting them can be expected to produce a…