Machinery of Freedom: A Guide to Radical Capitalism
by David Friedman · 2 Jan 1978 · 328pp · 92,317 words
Table of Contents THE MACHINERY OF FREEDOM PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION IN DEFENSE OF PROPERTY IN DEFENSE OF PROPERTY A NECESSARY DIGRESSION LOVE IS
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Libertarian Movement Miscellaneous Some More of My Articles that You May (or May Not) Find of Interest Magazines Organizations Institutes Sources THE MACHINERY OF FREEDOM GUIDE TO A RADICAL CAPITALISM second edition David Friedman This book is dedicated to Milton Friedman Friedrich Hayek Robert A. Heinlein, from whom I learned and to Robert M. Schuchman
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of this book is to persuade you that a libertarian society would be both free and attractive, that the institutions of private property are the machinery of freedom, making it possible, in a complicated and interdependent world, for each person to pursue his life as he sees fit. IN DEFENSE OF PROPERTY A
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words
. Lee). As an editor, Rockwell commissioned books on the disastrous effects of desegregation and the betrayal of white politics in southern Africa, published alongside David Friedman’s Machinery of Freedom and panic-mongering bestsellers like How to Profit from the Coming Devaluation.17 One book Rockwell pitched to an author was called Integration: The Dream
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the Gadsden flag and the letters TANSTAAFL, for his father’s well-known coinage: “There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.”16 David Friedman’s politics leaned much further toward actual statelessness than those of his father. Milton was a skeptic of public education but he believed that government
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he often insisted, he was no anarchist. His son, by contrast, was. Two years out from his physics doctorate, David published a manifesto titled The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism.18 The book staked out an extreme position, joining Murray Rothbard’s call for anarcho-capitalism, defined as a system
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lead not to economic freedom but to “a new Feudalism.”19 The correspondent was closer to the truth than he might have known. In fact, David Friedman’s work was hard to separate from his extracurricular persona as an early-twelfth-century upper-class Berber named Duke Cariadoc of the Bow. He
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collective action. Writing from the scrublands of southern Arizona, Tullock saw the fortified Caucasian citadel as both a speculative dream and an existing reality. 3. David Friedman saw one path to a stateless future in building alternative institutions, or what he called “the skeleton of anarcho-capitalism” within society.58 Gated communities
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swam,” quipped one critical article.63 This was a gated community at sea, an aquatic take on the voluntary city, and a floating jurisdiction. When David Friedman spoke at the second conference of the institute, he explained its significance by returning to the familiar trope of the Ottoman Empire. “The world as
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definition. Playacting a private society could take on its own momentum. Reality seemed to track the fantasy. When David Friedman was a kid, the University of Chicago created its first police force. In The Machinery of Freedom, he proposed the idea of privatizing security altogether.64 By 2000, the University of Chicago had one of
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in all fifty states.67 “The modern state with its unitary legal system is less tolerant of diversity than the states of the Middle Ages,” David Friedman has claimed.68 Yet if gated communities were neo-medieval islands, they testified to the opposite. Tullock praised the way that one could “vote with
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constrained free choice in the belief that homogeneity best secured their long-term investment. Economic freedom meant less room for individual expression. It is to David Friedman’s credit that he conceded that the anarcho-capitalist society would not necessarily be “a society in which each person is free to do as
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sovereignty. It was a self-conscious choice to make corporate governance the foundation of human community, a fulfillment of the anarcho-capitalist blueprint drafted by David Friedman and many others. A Próspera advisor praised the decision of Honduras to surrender control over the territory. “Honduras is letting go,” he said, “and that
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likely to see. To describe the creation of cryptocurrency, Srinivasan reached for a term we have seen earlier in relation to the “joint fantasy” of David Friedman’s medieval re-creationism: live action role-playing, or LARPing. Bitcoin proponents had “LARPed” a currency into existence, he said. They had treated a line
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in Southern Africa (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1970); Harry Browne, How to Profit from the Coming Devaluation (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1970); and David Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1978). 18. Rockwell to Weyl, February 11, 1970, Stanford University, Hoover Institution Archives, Nathaniel
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the editorial board along with Friedrich Hayek. New Individualist Review 2, no. 2 (Summer 1962); and Friedman and Friedman, Two Lucky People: Memoirs, 372. 14. David Friedman, “The Radical: Figs from Thistles,” New Guard (Summer 1969): 19. 15. Stan Lehr and Louis Rossetto Jr., “The New Right Credo-Libertarianism,” New York Times
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with Libertarianism” (1981), http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Ideas%20I/Libertarianism/Problems.pdf. 17. Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom, 32. 18. David Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism (New York: Harper Colophon, 1973). 19. Patrick M. Flynn, Letter to the Editor, New Guard, April 1970, 25. 20. Michael
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. 21. “Some Tricks,” 185, http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/miscellany_pdf/Articles_about_Persona.pdf. 22. “Pennsic War History,” http://www.pennsicwar.org/History. 23. David Friedman, “A Theory of the Size and Shape of Nations,” Journal of Political Economy 85, no. 1 (February 1977): 59–77. David boasted of being a
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professional economist without having ever taken an economics course for credit. Friedman, “Problems with Libertarianism.” 24. David Friedman, “Private Creation and Enforcement of Law: A Historical Case,” Journal of Legal Studies 8, no. 2 (March 1979): 400. 25. For inspiration, Friedman credited the
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of Enforcers,” Journal of Legal Studies 3, no. 1 (January 1974): 14; and Friedman, “Private Creation and Enforcement of Law: A Historical Case,” 400. 26. David Friedman, “Legal Systems Very Different from Ours” (2nd Seasteading Institute Conference, 2009), https://www.seasteading.org/david-d-friedman-legal-systems-very-different-from-ours/. For
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, 1996, ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 58. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism, 219. 59. Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “The Libertarian Quest for a Grand Historical Narrative,” Mises Institute, November 5, 2018, https://mises.org/print/44602. 60. Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed, 291. 61. David Friedman, “Concerning a Dream,” Tournaments Illuminated, no
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, and Mauro J. Caraccioli, “Atlas Swam: Freedom, Capital, and Floating Sovereignties in the Seasteading Vision,” Antipode 44, no. 4 (2012): 1532–50. 64. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism, 156. 65. Graham and Marvin, Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition, 272; and Keith C. Veal
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Activism Erodes the State (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021), 5. 67. Brown, Homeschooling the Right: How Conservative Education Activism Erodes the State, 72. 68. David Friedman, “Secession,” Daviddfriedman.com, April 9, 2013, http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Secession.html. 69. I take these points from Evan McKenzie, Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Residential
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. 70. Evan McKenzie, Privatopia: Homeowners Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994), 15–17. 71. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism, 173. 72. Linda Carlson, Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003), 193. 73. Carlson, Company
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free ports free trade. See also specific agreements free trade zones Free World definition of redefinition of free zones French Somaliland Friedman, David Director The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism medieval reenactment and Friedman, Milton Capitalism and Freedom Economic Freedom of the World index Free to Choose Goldwater and in
The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
by Vernor Vinge · 30 Sep 2001 · 659pp · 203,574 words
those in this story had better be the exception. If you are interested in a detailed nonfiction analysis of such ideas, I strongly recommend David Friedman’s The Machinery of Freedom. If you’d like to see my future history before and after the time of “The Ungoverned,” there is a prequel novel, The Peace
Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity From Politicians
by Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman · 21 Mar 2017 · 441pp · 113,244 words
became conscious of itself when Google engineer Patri Friedman realized that the economic theories elucidated by his grandfather, Milton Friedman, and developed by his father, David Friedman, would soon be put to the test by a rapidly approaching technology. Milton and David each asserted that political conflict was caused by political power
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decentralization of power among millions of individuals with freedom and choice. How could such an organic bottom-up system work? In 1973 David published The Machinery of Freedom, describing the practical details, and Milton and his wife, Rose, later wrote Free to Choose, explaining the moral principles. Millions were swayed by the ideas
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, humanity’s wealth and status had come from the power to control land and those who cultivate it. But that was about to change. A machinery of freedom was developing that would soon render citizens free to choose among governments and to disempower governments to claim monopoly control over land. To put Friedman
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minorities, would be upgraded to a system whereby the smallest minorities, including the individual, could vote with their houses. David Friedman described a machinery of freedom. Milton Friedman advocated the freedom of choose. Patri identified a machinery of freedom to choose. In his now defunct personal blog, he proposed an idea that became contagious: imagine ten thousand homesteads
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deadly race between politics and technology . . . The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism. “For this reason, all of us must wish Patri Friedman the very best in his extraordinary experiment.” The
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are landlocked. Whether we are talking about goods, people, or information, wealth emerges from fluidity and flow. Patri’s dad, economist, physicist, and legal scholar David Friedman, tossed out a famously whimsical proposal on the benefits of mobility: Consider our world as it would be if the cost of moving from one
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the power of new providers to enter. Well, the incalculable economic power of mobility recently got calculated, and it makes the wild-eyed optimists like David Friedman seem like pessimists by comparison. We know from studying the proliferation of special economic zones (SEZs) that when states step back from micromanaging people’s
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5, 2012, www.aei.org/publication/jeremy-grantham-starving-for-facts. human creativity: Julian Simon, The Ultimate Resource (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press), 1981. a machinery of freedom to choose: Patri Friedman, “Dynamic Geography: A Blueprint for Efficient Government,” accessed from the website of the Seasteading Institute, n.d., http://seasteading.org/seastead
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Chronicle 40, no. 4 (2003): 13. “Consider our world as it would be if the cost of moving from one country to another were zero”: David Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), 123. “estimate the gains from eliminating various barriers to trade, capital flows, and migration
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, 164 Love Boat, The (tv show), 272 Loveridge, Russell, 169–70 Lubnow, Fred, 91 lysine, 78 Lysistrata (Aristophanes), 286 Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), 29 Machinery of Freedom, The (D. Friedman), 7 Mackey, John, 196, 197 macroalgae, 74, 77, 109, 122 Maersk Lines, 20 magnesium, 174, 178 Maher, Bill, 129 mahimahi, 108, 109
Anarchy State and Utopia
by Robert Nozick · 15 Mar 1974 · 524pp · 146,798 words
, Rothbard has more extensively presented his views in For a New Liberty (New York: Macmillan, 1973), chaps. 3 and II, and David Friedman has defended anarcho-capitalism with gusto in The Machinery of Freedom (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), pt. III. Each of these works is well worth reading, but neither leads me to revise
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the Psychotic Aggressor.” Israel Law Review 8, no. 3:367-90. Fried, Charles. An Anatomy of Values. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. Friedman, David. The Machinery of Freedom. New York: Harper & Row, 1973. Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. Gierke, Otto. Natural Law and the Theory of Society
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a skeptical view, see Kenneth Minogue, The Liberal Mind, (New York: Random House, 1963), pp. 103-112. at I have not seen a precise estimate. David Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom (N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1973), pp. xiv, xv, discusses this issue and suggests 5 percent of U.S. national income as an upper limit
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
by Peter Marshall · 2 Jan 1992 · 1,327pp · 360,897 words
. His views have had an important influence on neo-Conservatives, especially those on the right wing of the Conservative Party in Britain. Anarcho-capitalists like David Friedman and Murray Rothbard go much further. In some ways, their position appears to be a revival of the principles of the Old Right against the
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uncertain. They maintain that even the minimal State is unnecessary since the defence of person and property can be carried out by private protection agencies. David Friedman sees such agencies as both brokers of mini-social contracts and producers of ‘laws’ which conform to the market demand for rules to regulate commerce
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would be free to subscribe to a protective association of his choice, since ‘Protection from coercion is an economic good’.5 Apart from adumbrating The Machinery of Freedom (1971), Friedman sees capitalism as the best antidote to the serfdom of collectivism and the State. The writings of Ayn Rand, a refugee from the
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libertarianism embraces laissez-faire liberals like Robert Nozick who call for a minimal State, and in its extreme form, anarcho-capitalists like Murray Rothbard and David Friedman who entirely repudiate the role of the State and look to the market as a means of ensuring social order. While undoubtedly related to liberalism
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(1935) (New York: Free Life Editions, 1977), p. 88 4 John Locke, Of Civil Goverment, Second Treatise (1690), op. cit., sec. 123, p. 179 5 David Friedman. The Machinery of Freedom (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), p. 156 6 Murray Rothbard, For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, rev. edn. (New York: Collier Books, 1978
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) Fourier, Charles, Harmonian Society: Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster (New York: Doubleday, 1971) Freire, Paulo, Pedagogy of Oppressed (1970) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972) Friedman, David, The Machinery of Freedom (New York: Harper, 1971) Friends of Durruti Group, Towards a Fresh Revolution (1938) (Sanday, Orkney: Cienfuegos Press, 1978) Gandhi, Mohandas, The Constructive Programme (Ahmedabad: Navajivan
Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market
by Nicholas Wapshott · 2 Aug 2021 · 453pp · 122,586 words
for a more fitting time. On the death of Rose Friedman, on August 18, 2009, Samuelson wrote a letter of condolence to Friedman’s children, David Friedman and Janet Martel, both living in California, and “the entire Friedman Family.” “Milton’s abilities were self-evident from the beginning,” he wrote. “For two
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, despite the differences in our value judgments, we were able to maintain civil discourse. I think that was a tribute to both of us.”25 David Friedman replied, “It is indeed a good thing when people can disagree and get along in a peaceable and even friendly fashion.” But he took Samuelson
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Milton Friedman’s daughter, Janet Martel, for allowing me to quote from their fathers’ correspondence and works. I am also grateful to Friedman’s son David Friedman for putting me straight on some of his father’s views. Thanks, too, to Samuelson’s longtime literary collaborator Janice Murray. I am grateful to
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/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1976/friedman-bio.html. 6.David Friedman (born February 12, 1945), American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and anarcho-capitalist theorist, followed his parents into economics, sharing their belief in free markets and libertarian thinking. He wrote The Machinery of Freedom (1973), which advocates an anarcho-capitalist society. 7.Friedman left
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.Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom, p. 3. CHAPTER 13: END OF THE LINE 1.Samuelson, Economics, 5th ed. (1961), p. 819. 2.According to his son David Friedman, “He was probably in favor of the idea of free love early on, judging by something he once said, probably concluded it was a bad
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wasn’t.” Email to author, January 19, 2021. 3.Friedman and Friedman, Free to Choose, p. 25. 4.Friedman was an exception. As his son David Friedman explained, “From my father’s point of view, describing how socialism works in practice was one way of showing things wrong with it.” Email to
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Journal, November 17, 2006. 24.Noble, “Milton Friedman, Free Markets Theorist, Dies at 94.” 25.Letter from Samuelson to David Friedman and Janet Martel, August 20, 2009. Duke Samuelson archive. 26.Letter from David Friedman to Samuelson, September 8, 2009, Duke Samuelson archive. CHAPTER 17: CAPITALISM TEETERS 1.Ben Bernanke, “Deflation: Making sure it
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Economics: The Weekend Interview with Milton (and Rose) Friedman,” Wall Street Journal, July 22–23, 2006 49.David Director Friedman (February 12, 1945–); like Keynes, David Friedman did not achieve a degree in economics. 50.Robert Solow, “Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today?” Econ Journal Watch, vol. 10, no. 2, May
The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
by Robin Hanson · 31 Mar 2016 · 589pp · 147,053 words
Muehlhauser, Nikola Danaylov, Bryan Caplan, Michael Abramowicz, Gaverick Matheny, Paul Crowley, Peter McCluskey, Sam Wilson, Chris Hibbert, Thomas Hanson, Daniel Houser, Kaj Sotala, Rong Rong, David Friedman, Michael LaTorra, Ben Goertzel, Steve Omohundro, David Levy, Jim Miller, Mike Halsall, Peggy Jackson, Jan-Erik Strasser, Robert Lecnik, Andrew Hanson, Shannon Friedman, Karl Mattingly
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Biogeography 23(11): 1157–1166. Friedman, Daniel, and Ryan Oprea. 2012. “A Continuous Dilemma.” American Economic Review 102(1): 337–363. Friedman, David. 1973. The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism. New York: Harper and Row. Friedman, David. 2000. Law’s Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
by Peter Warren Singer · 1 Jan 2003 · 482pp · 161,169 words
Rise and Decline of the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 10,0,0,): John Hoffman, Beyond the State (Cambridge: Polity Press, 10,0,-5). 16. David Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to Radical Capitalism (Lasalle, 111.: Open Court Press, 1989). 143— 159. Murray Rothbard. For a Nexo Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (New York: Macmillan
The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
by Michael Huemer · 29 Oct 2012 · 577pp · 149,554 words
, 218. 16 It is not possible to convey the power of modern economic theory in a short space. For an excellent introduction to microeconomics, see David Friedman’s (1990) textbook, available at http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Price_Theory/PThy_ToC.html. 17 See Huemer ‘Why People Are Irrational about Politics’ (n
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supplier. 25 These names are taken from Friedman (1989, 116–17), apparently based on modifications of the names of prominent libertarian authors. 26 See also David Friedman’s (1994) argument that rational egoists in a state of nature avoid conflict through mutual respect for rights. 27 See Brozen 1968; Friedman 1989, chapters
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Effect’, Oxford Review 5: 5–15. Freud, Anna. 1937. The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence, tr. Cecil Baines. London: Hogarth. Friedman, David. 1989. The Machinery of Freedom. LaSalle, IL: Open Court. ——. 1990. Price Theory: An Intermediate Text. Cincinnati, OH: Southwestern. ——. 1994. ‘A Positive Account of Property Rights’, Social Philosophy and Policy 11