May 18, 2012
Hodgskin vs. Spencer on Land Rights
Those who followed our recent Land Symposium might be interested in Thomas Hodgskin’s critique of Herbert Spencer’s views on land (and possibly also my critique of both Hodgskin and Spencer).
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April 27, 2012
No Alternative to Public Revenue from Land Rent
Finer points aside, nobody has offered a specific and coherent and realistic more efficient and equitable alternative for public revenue than land rent or land value.
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…