Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0945466404, Hardcover)

This book, the 2nd expanded edition after a long period in which it has been unavailable, collects his most important scholarly essays on the topic. This book considers in depth the basic economic and philosophical issues surrounding the concept of private property. The author adheres to the Austrian school of economic thought in pursuing this analysis and comes to the conclusion that the right to private property is a principle of ethics and the "basis for continual `optimal' economic progress."