Privatize the oceans and all other bodies of water -- Why privatize anything? -- Why privatize bodies of water? -- Aquatic ownership concepts -- The process of privatization homesteading, abandonment -- Existing law governing the seas -- Oceans: concepts of oceanological ownership -- Rivers:...

Part I. Philosophy -- Chapter 1: Property and Exploitation -- Chapter 2: The Moral Dimensions of Poverty, Entitlements and Theft -- Chapter 3: Ona’ah -- Part II. Libertarian Property Rights Theory -- Chapter 4: Hayek's Road to Serfdom -- Chapter 5: Block vs. Friedman on Hayek -- Chapter 6:...

This paper shall attempt to reconcile environmentalism and economic freedom.Before making this seemingly quixotic endeavor, we must be sure we are clear on both concepts. Environmentalism may be non controversially defined as a philosophy which sees great benefit in clean air and water, and to a...

The authors contend that what can legitimately be owned in a free society is only rights to physical property, not to the value thereof. You are thus free to undermine the value of our property by underselling us, by inventing a new substitute for our property, etc. But you cannot legitimately...

In his seminal work, "The Problem of Social Cost," Coase held that in cases of private property right disputes involving what have been called externalities, "with costless market transactions, the decision of the courts concerning liability for damage would be without effect on the allocation...