1st Edition

Modern Understandings of Liberty and Property Liberty, Property, and the Law

Edited By Richard A. Epstein Copyright 2000
367 Pages
by Routledge

367 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 2000. The materials in this collection are drawn from many disciplines, including economics, law, philosophy and political science. Yet they are all directed to a topic that is worthy of examination from multiple perspectives: Liberty, Property and the Law. Stated in this general form, this topic is broad as law itself. The relationship of liberty and property to the law... Read more
Series Introduction, Volume Introduction, Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State, The Use of Knowledge in Society, The Intellectual History of Laissez Faire, The Relation between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, from Capitalism and Freedom, The Problem of Social Cost, Toward a Theory of Property Rights, Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral, Distributive Justice, The Marxist Conception of Violence, The Disintegration of Property, Self-Ownership, World Ownership, and Equality: Part II, Approximate Optimality of Aboriginal Property Rights, Acknowledgments

Biography

Richard A. Epstein University of Chicago Law School