This Hoover Classic edition of Property Rightsdetails step-by-step what property rights are, what they do, how they evolve, how they can be protected, and how they promote freedom and prosperity.
In this timely book, Walter E. Block uses classical liberal theory to defend private property rights.
In the end, the book provides a fresh, comprehensive overview of an intriguing subject, accessible to anyone with a minimal background in economics. (An introductory chapter introduces the handful of assumptions embedded in the text's ...
For instance, price controls seek to influence the nature of the prices that the market process would generate absent that intervention. Similarly, zoning laws, which are regulations that restrict the uses of land and buildings, ...
Ranging over a host of issues, Property Rights: A Re-Examination pinpoints and addresses a number of theoretical problems at the heart of property theory.
Constitutional Protection of Property Rights -- VIII. The Bill of Rights -- IX. The Due Process Clause -- X. The Takings Clause -- XI. Correctly Interpreting the Constitution's Private Property Guarantees -- 4.
Explores the legal status of property rights in the United States, covering such topics as zoning and environmental regulations, Native American land rights, property taxes, and property rights in cyberspace.
Property Rights: From Magna Carta to the Fourteenth Amendment breaks new ground in our understanding of the genesis of property rights in the United States.
This book examines the history of individual property ownership in the U.S. from the late colonial era to the present, explaining how property rights were established, defended, and sometimes later reinterpreted.
Property Rights: From Magna Carta to the Fourteenth Amendment breaks new ground in our understanding of the genesis of property rights in the United States.