On this episode, we take a break from case law and go way back to the beginning to examine the origins and justifications of private property.
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Resources
Bart Wilson, The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind
Matt Zwolinski & John Tomasi, The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism
Terrence Deacon, The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
Robert Ellickson, A Hypothesis of Wealth-Maximizing Norms: Evidence from the Whaling Industry
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