Homesteading

Further Thoughts on Abandonment and Alienability in Contract Theory: Discussions with Jay Lakner

From some comments in Seinfeld’s Elaine is Anti-IP: Jay Lakner July 26, 2010 at 11:24 pm Ok let’s try this again, but with a different approach. An author, let’s called him Adam, wishes to sell his book but he only wants official copies to be in circulation. His intent is to prevent people from duplicating […]

Locke, Smith, Marx; the Labor Theory of Property and the Labor Theory of Value; and Rothbard, Gordon, and Intellectual Property

I am trying to research connections between Locke, Smith, and Marx regarding labor. If I recall, Rothbard and others have written about Smith’s views on labor influencing Marx. I’d appreciate any suggestions or discussion as to good references on this issue. In addition to the Smith-Marx connection, It is also my view that Locke’s idea […]