Ownership of intangible assets has powered centuries of innovation and economic growth. The value of virtual property and digital rights is more important than ever before as it fuels the next ...

Freedom is often embodied in objects. For the Founding Fathers, it was the Lockean cottage, earned through labor and governed without interference: a true sanctuary of individual will.  Today, its ...

If, for example, people have property rights based on Lockean acquisition, is this true regardless of whether people think it’s true? Landier and Thesmar do not discuss this issue, and indeed there is ...

Lockean natural rights dominated intellectual discourse in the colonies, and Jefferson stayed the course in his draft and revisions. In his absorbing work, Patriots, A. J. Langguth tells us, “The ...

Correspondence to Dr Angela Ballantyne, Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice and the Bioethics Center, Otago University, Wellington, New Zealand; angela.ballantyne{at}otago.ac.nz The ...

Institute for Central Asian Studies, School of Politics and International Relations, Lanzhou University, No. 222 South Tianshui Road, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu Province, P. R. China ...