• Part of the Liberty Fund Network
  • Liberty Fund
  • Econlib
  • Law & Liberty
  • Adam Smith Works
  • Online Library of Liberty
  • Liberty Matters
  • Titles
  • People
  • Collections

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.

Home / Titles / 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)
  • Economic Harmonies (FEE ed.) (Frédéric Bastiat)
  • An Essay on the History of Civil Society (Adam Ferguson)
  • 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)
  • The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (William Paley)
  • Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments (Benjamin Constant)
  • Progress and Poverty (Henry George)
  • Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Riches (Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot)
  • The Social Contract and Discourses (G.D.H. Cole)
  • Social Statics (1851) (Herbert Spencer)
  • Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (Ludwig von Mises)
  • Socialistic Fallacies (Yves Guyot)
  • Les Soirées de la Rue Saint-Lazare (1849) (Gustave de Molinari)
  • The Story of the Law (John Maxcy Zane)
  • A Treatise of Human Nature (Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge)
  • A Treatise on Political Economy (Jean Baptiste Say)
  • The Two Treatises of Civil Government (Hollis ed.) (Thomas Hollis)
  • Where and Why Public Ownership has Failed (Harriet Franc Baker)
  • The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature (1673, 2003) (Samuel von Pufendorf)

About OLL | Contact

Sign up for the OLL Newsletter

  • About us
  • Anthologies
  • Bibliographies
  • Biographies
  • Books
  • Books and Titles
  • Exploring Ideas
  • Goodrich Seminar Room
  • Key Documents of Liberty
  • Liberty Matters
  • Reading Lists
  • Selected Readings
  • Timelines
  • Virtual Reading Groups

Copyright ©2003 – 2021, Liberty Fund, Inc. All rights reserved.