Rejoinder to Guenzl on Theft and the Return of Private Property

• Authors: Walter E. Block
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Suppose A is the rightful owner of some property, B steals if from him, and C, in turn, relieves B of his ill-gotten gains. What next? Under just law, must C return the item to A? If not, is C guilty of a crime? If C does return this resource to its initial (rightful?) owner, does A owe C a percentage of its value, as under salvage law? These are some of the questions to be wrestled with in the present paper.

Keywords

EN

property; aggression; theft; libertarianism

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Ekonomia. Wrocław Economic Review
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 35-44

Contributors

author

Walter E. Block

• Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics Joseph A. Butt S.J. College of Business Loyola University New Orleans