Property

Property can be thought of as a “right” which all individuals have, as the basis for the rule of law in a free society,as a key aspect of any properly functioning free market society, and as an important part of the emergence of free societies in the West. The wide range of texts collected here reflects these multiple approaches to property.

• Ancient Law (Sir Henry Sumner Maine)
• BOLL 58: Léon Faucher,“Property I” (1852) (Léon Faucher)
• BOLL 59: Wolowski and Levasseur, “Property II” (1864) (Louis Wolowski)
• The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume II - The Principles of Political Economy I (John Stuart Mill)
• The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume V - Essays on Economics and Society Part II (Lionel Robbins)
• The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 10 (The Reason of Rules) (James M. Buchanan)
• Cours d’Economie Politique vol. 1 (Gustave de Molinari)
• Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy vol. 3 Oath - Zollverein (John Joseph Lalor)
• Economic Harmonies (FEE ed.) (Frédéric Bastiat)
• An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Vol. II. (William Godwin)
• An Essay on the History of Civil Society (Adam Ferguson)
• Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, vol. 2 (LF ed.) (Ludwig von Mises)
• Individualism: A System of Politics (Wordsworth Donisthorpe)
• Institutes of Roman Law (Gaius)
• The Law (FEE ed.) (Frédéric Bastiat)
• The Law of Intellectual Property (1855) (Lysander Spooner)
• Letters of Sidney, on Inequality of Property (John Millar)
• Leviathan (1909 ed) (Thomas Hobbes)
• Liberalism: The Classical Tradition (1927) (LF ed.) (Ludwig von Mises)
• The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (Thomas Hodgskin)
• The Natural Law: A Study in Legal and Social History and Philosophy (Heinrich Rommen)
• The Writings of Gershom Carmichael (Gershom Carmichael)
• Notions fondamentales d’Économie politique et programme économique (Gustave de Molinari)
• On Civil Liberty and Self-Government (Francis Lieber)
• The Philosophy of Law (William Hastie)