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Column by Jim Davies.
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As far as I know, there is no sound and comprehensive theory of the
right way to allocate control (or ownership) of the Earth's 150 million
square kilometers of land among its seven billion human inhabitants.
Since conventional theorists are not even looking in the right haystack,
it falls to libertarian ones to make the attempt, and some fairly good
ones have been made. The net result is outlined here. I hope it can be
improved.
The subject is...
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