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If you don't recognize the property rights over something, it is expropriation when you take it away?

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Jan 21st, 2012 at 05:03:05 AM EST
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People tend to forget that the right to property is not a human right. It is a legislative invention and we can invent something else. And if we don't do that quickly, rioters like the ones in London last year will do it.
by Katrin on Sat Jan 21st, 2012 at 08:37:27 AM EST
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