The Social Sciences

Year: 2008
Volume: 3
Issue: 2
Page No. 96 - 103

Homesteading, Ad Coelum, Owning Views and Forestalling

Authors : Walter Block

Abstract: Homesteading, not the ad coelum doctrine, is compatible with libertarianism. In the former case, one mixes his labor with unowned land and a means of establishing private property rights in it and what is owned is limited to just that which has undergone this process. In the latter case, homesteading a square mile of land enables the owner of it to extend his property rights in a pyramid shaped form from his holdings on the surface down into the core of the earth and up into the heavens, with no limit.

How to cite this article:

Walter Block , 2008. Homesteading, Ad Coelum, Owning Views and Forestalling . The Social Sciences, 3: 96-103.

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