The following works deal with the idea of private property from a number of perspectives: as a “right” which all individuals have (philosophical), as the basis for the rule of law in a free society (legal), as a key aspect of any properly functioning free market society (economic), and as an important part of the emergence of free societies in the West (historical). Some of the works are critical of the classical liberal idea of property (e.g. Rousseau, Bentham, George).
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pub. date |
| author: Thomas Paine, editor: Moncure Daniel Conway |
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Vol. III (1791-1804) |
1791 |
| author: Jeremy Bentham, editor: John Bowring |
The Works of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 2 (Judicial Procedure, Anarchical Fallacies, works on Taxation) |
1843 |
| author: Samuel von Pufendorf, author: Jean Barbeyrac, translator: Andrew Tooke, editor: Ian Hunter, editor: David Saunders |
The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature |
1673 |
| author: Yves Guyot, translator: Harriet Franc Baker |
Where and Why Public Ownership has Failed |
1912 |
| author: John Locke, editor: Thomas Hollis |
The Two Treatises of Civil Government (Hollis ed.) |
1689 |
| author: Jean Baptiste Say, translator: Charles Robert Prinsep, editor: Clement C. Biddle |
A Treatise on Political Economy |
1803 |
| author: David Hume, editor: Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge |
A Treatise of Human Nature (1896 ed.) |
1739 |
| author: John Maxcy Zane, introduction: James M. Beck, foreword: Charles J. Reid, Jr. |
The Story of the Law |
1927 |
| author: Gustave de Molinari |
Les Soirées de la Rue Saint-Lazare: Entretiens sur les lois économiques et défense de la propriété |
1849 |
| author: Yves Guyot |
Socialistic Fallacies |
1910 |
| author: Ludwig von Mises, foreword: Friedrich August von Hayek, translator: J. Kahane |
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis |
1922 |
| author: Herbert Spencer |
Social Statics |
1851 |
| author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, editor: G.D.H. Cole |
The Social Contract and Discourses |
1761 |
| author: Hugo Grotius, editor: Richard Tuck, editor: Jean Barbeyrac |
The Rights of War and Peace (2005 ed.) vol. 2 (Book II) |
1625 |
| author: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, translator: Sir William James Ashley |
Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Riches (1898 ed.) |
1770 |
| author: Henry George |
Progress and Poverty |
1879 |
| author: Benjamin Constant, editor: Etienne Hofmann, translator: Dennis O’Keeffe, introduction: Nicholas Capaldi |
Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments |
1815 |
| author: William Paley, foreword: D.L. Le Mahieu |
The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy |
1785 |
| author: Herbert Spencer, introduction: Tibor R. Machan |
The Principles of Ethics, vol. 2 |
1897 |
| author: Immanuel Kant, translator: William Hastie |
The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence as the Science of Right |
1796 |
| author: Francis Lieber, editor: Theodore D. Woolsey |
On Civil Liberty and Self-Government |
1853 |
| author: Gustave de Molinari |
Notions fondamentales d’Économie politique et programme économique |
1891 |
| author: Gershom Carmichael, editor: James Moore, translator: Michael Silverthorne |
Natural Rights on the Threshold of the Scottish Enlightenment: The Writings of Gershom Carmichael |
1724 |
| author: Heinrich Rommen, translator: Thomas R. Hanley, introduction: Russell Hittinger |
The Natural Law: A Study in Legal and Social History and Philosophy |
1936 |
| author: Thomas Hodgskin |
The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted |
1832 |
| author: Ludwig von Mises, editor: Bettina Bien Greaves |
Liberalism: The Classical Tradition (LF ed.) |
1962 |
| author: Thomas Hobbes, introduction: William George Pogson Smith |
Leviathan (1909 ed) |
1651 |
| author: John Millar |
Letters of Sidney, on Inequality of Property. To which is added, a Treatise of the Effects of War on Commercial Prosperity |
1796 |
| author: Lysander Spooner |
The Law of Intellectual Property; or An Essay on the Right of Authors and Inventors to a Perpetual Property in their Ideas |
1855 |
| author: Frédéric Bastiat, translator: Dean Russell, introduction: Walter E. Williams, foreword: Sheldon L. Richman |
The Law |
1850 |
| author: Gaius, translator: Edward Poste, introduction: Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge |
Institutes of Roman Law |
160 AD |
| author: Wordsworth Donisthorpe |
Individualism: A System of Politics |
1889 |
| author: Ludwig von Mises, editor: Bettina Bien Greaves |
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, vol. 2 (LF ed.) |
1996 |
| author: Adam Ferguson |
An Essay on the History of Civil Society |
1767 |
| author: William Godwin |
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Vol. II. |
1793 |
| author: Frédéric Bastiat, editor: George B. de Huszar, translator: W. Hayden Boyers, introduction: Dean Russell |
Economic Harmonies (Boyers trans.) |
1850 |
| editor: John Joseph Lalor |
Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political History of the United States, vol. 3 Oath - Zollverein |
1881 |
| author: Gustave de Molinari |
Cours d’Économie Politique vol. 1 |
1854 |
| author: Geoffrey Brennan, author: James M. Buchanan, foreword: Robert D. Tollison |
The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 10 (The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy) |
1985 |
| author: John Stuart Mill, editor: John M. Robson, introduction: Lionel Robbins |
The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume V - Essays on Economics and Society Part II (Chapters of Socialism) |
1850 |
| author: John Stuart Mill, editor: John M. Robson, introduction: Vincent Wheeler Bladen |
The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume II - The Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy (Books I-II) |
1848 |
| author: Sir Henry Sumner Maine, introduction: Sir Frederick Pollock |
Ancient Law, its connection with the early history of society and its relation to modern ideas |
1861 |
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