Economic theory is broadly applicable. However, a society's property-rights structure influences how the theory will manifest itself. It's the same with the theory of gravity. While it, too, is ...

Last week I set out Auburn University philosopher Roderick Long's argument that libertarianism can't be reasonably dismissed as strange. (A modest objective, to be sure.) After all, Long w rites, ...

Thank you, Eugene! This week, I'm blogging about a scholarly project long in the works. Earlier this summer, I published a book, Natural Property Rights, with Cambridge University Press. If readers ...

Elinor Ostrom’s work has immeasurably enhanced legal scholars’ understanding of property. Although the richness of these contributions cannot be distilled into a single thesis, their flavor can be ...

Group theory, a cornerstone of modern algebra, provides a framework to explore the structure, symmetry, and internal operations of sets endowed with a binary operation. Central to this discipline is ...

Philip Soos does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The Erdős–Pósa property forms a pivotal concept in modern graph theory by establishing a profound duality between the problems of packing and covering cycles or other substructures. At its core, this ...