May 02, 2012
Stop the War on May Day!
I strongly disagree with the suggestion by Jason, Ilya, and others to rename May Day “Victims of Communism” Day. The fact that Communist regimes have attempted to co-opt May Day…
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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…
April 25, 2012
The Geolibertarian Ethics of Land Rent
I coined the term “geolibertarian” in 1981 to designate the branch of libertarian philosophy which deems the natural rent to equally belong to human beings. Public finance theory prescribes land…