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Expiration of private property rights: a note

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  • Walter E. Block

    (Loyola University New Orleans)

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According to libertarian law, upon what occasions may a person’s private property rights in goods, commodities, in himself, be alienated from him? The present paper is an attempt to wrestle with this question. We consider abandonment, punishment, salvage, misplacement, liberation of property.

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  • Walter E. Block, 2015. "Expiration of private property rights: a note," The Journal of Philosophical Economics, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, The Journal of Philosophical Economics, vol. 8(2), May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bus:jphile:v:8:y:2015:i:2:n:4
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    Keywords

    private property; rights negation; libertarianism;
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    JEL classification:

    • K11 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Property Law
    • P48 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Other Economic Systems - - - Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies

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