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…
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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
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…
April 24, 2012
Left-Libertarianism and the Ownership of Natural Resources
To start off: Why should libertarians be bothered about, specifically, rights to natural resources?[1. This paper is a slightly revised version of a paper first published in Public Reason 1…
April 23, 2012
Natural Rights and Natural Stuff
Since there are many different sorts of approaches to libertarianism – including many different sorts of moral approaches – there are many different sorts of routes to the topic of…