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Octavian-Dragomir JORA
Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti
In our four parts intended study, we will try to give a brief account on three of the pivotal perspectives on property as developed and operated by maybe the most coherent and self consistent liberal school of economics and law: the Austrian School (AS). We will deal firstly with what is called “the free market utilitarian position” (as stated by L. von Mises), then with “the natural law based view” (as revealed by M. N. Rothbard), and, finally, with the “a priori of argumentation” (as formulated by H. H. Hoppe). We chose a chain-link type assessment following the intellectual phylogeny in the SA: Rothbard on Mises, Hoppe on Rothbard, the contemporary Austrians on Hoppe, ending with the natural integration of private property within positive economic analysis (J. G. Hülsmann’s PROPERTY ECONOMICS). Part II of our study (following bellow) deals with Rothbard’s attempt to recover and structure an otherwise long lasting tradition (with Aristotelian and Thomistic pedigree), but a highly neglected one (due to its allegedly unscientific grounds, on positivistic standards) in political philosophy (ethics): the natural law. As stated in Part I of our study, Rothbard’s ethics is meant to answer, exclusively rationally, the fundamental question “what am I here and now rightfully allowed to do and what not in relation to other men”. His rational system of ethics, strictly streamlined form a broadly conceivable “morality”, passes both the “universalization” and “survival of mankind enhancement” tests. We will try to give a brief account on the results of his endeavour as reflected in both its praises and criticisms.

ŒCONOMICA no. 2/2009
Keywords: ethics, private property, economics, apriorism, praxeology, natural law
JEL: B41, K11, A12, B53
Trei teorii liberale ale proprietăţii şi fundamentele analizei economice în termeni de proprietate (II – Rothbard şi etica naturală)