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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 IV of our study (following bellow) exposes the AS’s acquis in analyzing the impact of public laws, institutions and policies on the private performance. It restates the fact that the analysis of human action in society cannot be decoupled from the concept of private property rights as humans use either peaceful (economic) or aggressive (political) means in each and every act of resource appropriation. By necessity, the appropriation without the consent of the previous owner makes those expropriated worse off than otherwise. When this kind of unconsented appropriation tends to be institutionalized by the State, be it democratic, the society in integrum suffers a relative pauperization effect, as incentives will drive people away from costlier new property acquire activities to seizures of property.

ŒCONOMICA no. 4/2009
Keywords: emigration, income, international students migration flows, education policy, ethics, economics, private property, praxeology, counterfactual analytics
Trei teorii liberale ale proprietăţii şi fundamentele analizei economice în termeni de proprietate (IV – Analiza contrafactuală a aproprierii)