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Property Rights: An Overview
This List Is By:
Andrew Duncan
Assistant to the Director of the Online Library of Liberty Project.
Below are selections of various titles and essays that pertain to the idea of property rights and the economic effect it has had on society.
PROPERTY - John Joseph Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political History of the United States, vol. 3 Oath - Zollverein [1881]
John Joseph Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political History of the United States by the best American and European Authors, ed. John J. Lalor (New York: Maynard, Merrill, & Co., 1899). Vol 3 Oath - Zollverein Chapter: PROPERTY
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/971/63517 on 2007-12-11
The text is in the public domain.
Say on Property Rights
Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; or the Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth, ed. Clement C. Biddle, trans. C. R. Prinsep from the 4th ed. of the French, (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1855. 4th-5th ed. ).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=551&Itemid=335 on 2007/11/2
Hodgskin on the Natural Right to Property (1832)
Source: The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted. A Series of Letters, addressed without permission to H. Brougham, Esq. M.P. F.R.S. (London: B. Steil, 1832).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=605&Itemid=335 on 2007/11/2
Chapter IV Property in Land Historically Considered - Henry George, Progress and Poverty [1879]
Henry George, Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth, The Remedy (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, & Co. 1912). Chapter: Chapter IV Property in Land Historically Considered
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/328/107336 on 2007-12-07
The text is in the public domain.
CHAPTER 12.: The Right of Property - Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Ethics, vol. 2 [1897]
Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Ethics, introduction by Tibor R. Machan (Indianapolis: LibertyClassics, 1978). Vol. 2. Chapter: CHAPTER 12.: The Right of Property
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/334/40730 on 2007-12-07
The copyright to this edition, in both print and electronic forms, is held by Liberty Fund, Inc.
8: Private Property and Common Wealth - Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Harmonies (Boyers trans.) [1850]
Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Harmonies, trans by W. Hayden Boyers, ed. George B. de Huszar, introduction by Dean Russell (Irvington-on-Hudson: Foundation for Econoic Education, 1996). Chapter: 8: Private Property and Common Wealth
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/79/35530 on 2007-12-07
Published online with the kind permission of the copyright holders, the Foundation for Economic Education.
Property under Socialism by Graham Wallas, M.A., Oxford - George Bernard Shaw, Fabian Essays in Socialism [1889]
George Bernard Shaw, Fabian Essays in Socialism, ed. G. Bernard Shaw, American Edition Ed. by H.G. Wilshire, (New York: The Homboldt Publishing Co., 1891). Chapter: Property under Socialism by Graham Wallas, M.A., Oxford
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/298/6520 on 2007-12-07
The text is in the public domain.
Yves Guyot, Where and Why Public Ownership has Failed [1912]
Yves Guyot, Where and Why Public Ownership has Failed, trans. H.F. Baker (London: Macmillan, 1914).
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/326 on 2007-12-07
The text is in the public domain.