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Steven E. Landsburg, political economic maverick extraordinaire, and supposed advocate of free enterprise, has written a paper on theft and externalities entitled “Property Is Theft: When protecting your own property is stealing from others.” In it, he calls for greater government intervention into the economy, more taxing, regulating, and subsidizing; and he does so on the ground that only in this way may we become more economically efficient. Where was he when the Politburo needed commissars?
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Block, W.E. (2019). Landsburg on Crime. In: Property Rights. Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28353-7_18
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