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The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice

By Liam Murphy (NHC Fellow, 2000–01) In a capitalist economy, taxes are the most important instrument by which the political system puts into practice a conception of economic and distributive justice. Taxes arouse strong passions, fueled not only by conflicts of economic self-interest, but by conflicting ideas of fairness. Taking as a guiding principle the … Continued

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What Is Property? = Qu’est-ce que la propriété?

By Pierre-Joseph ProudhonEdited and translated by Donald R. Kelley (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) and Bonnie G. Smith This is a 1994 translation of one of the classics of the traditions of anarchism and socialism. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a contemporary of Marx and one of the most acute, influential and subversive critics of modern French and European … Continued