Private Property Rights | Kyle Swan

Professor Kyle Swan talks about private property rights at the 2016 Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminar held in Santa Clara, California.

CONTENT OF THIS VIDEO
00:00 Introduction
00:08 Private property rights
05:44 Control rights: How much control?
06:03 The right to exclude
06:37 The right to use
08:02 The right to say no
08:54 Control over what?
09:59 Consumer and producer goods
10:54 Land and natural resources
12:07 Commodification
15:54 The Lockean problem
16:41 Justifying private property rights
16:51 Liberalism's liberty principle
21:35 The Lockean answer
26:41 The Lockean proviso
32:06 Can the proviso be satisfied?
39:22 Conclusion
43:44 Closing credits

ABOUT KYLE SWAN
Kyle Swan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sacramento State University. He received his Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University, and he specializes in teaching and research on social, moral and political philosophy, economics, and religion

The Challenge of Liberty Seminars provide college-aged students with the ethical and economic principles of free societies that are essential to understanding, appreciating, and preparing for real world issues that lie ahead.

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