Tags: Property Rights

Space-based commercial development will happen sooner than you think. How a system of extraterrestrial property rights might emerge.

How pro-immigration forces triumphed--and why they're likely to keep doing so.

Got a problem? Blame "radical individualism."

In the information economy, intellectual property is bringing huge returns. But just how will society split up the bounty?

How commerce cultivates art

In cyberspace, copyright infringement is only a click away. Commonsense guidelines to intelectual property in unsettled territory.

Urban planning skeptic Peter Gordon on the benefits of sprawl, the war against cars, and the future of American cities.

Why federal water management is all wet--and why environmentalists are right to question it.

The crime of Internet subsidies

Saving endangered wildlife once meant trampled crops and violent death to the villagers of Southern Africa. Now community-based capitalism is turning once-fearsome pests into valuable sources of wealth.

Supporters of federal power privatization have learned a lot from failures in the last Congress.

Selling out privatization at the INS

Half-truths about American Indians' environmental ethic obscure the rational ways in which they have lived with and shaped the natural world.

Republican agitator Grover Norquist on building a "leave-us-alone coalition"

Nobel laureate Ronald Coase on rights, resources, and regulation