Mark Pennington is a professor at University of London and worked for many years at the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) which was able to give a theoretical basis to the policy of Margaret Thatcher. This long essay transfers management of environmental proposals of Pennington in urban planning (including Liberating the Land, 2002)… Critical of Read more about Liberty, Markets, and Environmental Values[…]
This booklet (111 pp) published by IEA in 2007 is a wonderful introduction to the key role of property rights for development The authors states that “Sub-Saharan Africa has received tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid over the last fifty years, yet economic development has remained elusive. In many countries absolute poverty has Read more about Paths to property[…]
Pierre Bessard is Director of the Liberal Institute, a Swiss think tank located in Geneva and Zurich. This text has the merit to replace property rights in their historical, intellectual and moral dimensions. ” Property is the founding principle that protects freedom, the foundation of human value” and allows to reconcile conflicting interests and guarantee Read more about The underestimated importance of property[…]
As showed by Andrew Pack, he idea that the world would be stable and that there is an optimum balance has been denounced by l. von Mises Indeed, the concept of the Evenly Rotating Economy assumes that the future will be no different from the past and that it was dealing with an anthill and Read more about Environmental Preservation: A Matter of Property[…]
The right to private property is an indisputably valid, absolute principle of ethics, argues Hoppe, and the basis for civilizational advance. Indeed, it is the very foundation of social order itself. To rise from the ruins of socialism and overcome the stagnation of the Western welfare states, nothing will suffice but the uncompromising privatization of Read more about A major plea for the moral ground and philosophical justification for using private property for the environment: a libertarian perspective[…]
The think tank New Direction just published a very interesting report on the links between property rights and the environment. The synthesis of New Direction explains that every day we are told by newscasters, teachers in classrooms and scholars at conferences that our environment is being destroyed by unbridled capitalism and that we need some Read more about How to protect the environment by defining private property rights[…]