ABSTRACT
This chapter argue for a left-libertarian approach to property rights, under which people have strong rights to things that they produce by their own talents, skills and labour, but have only roughly equal rights to land and other natural resources and the products thereof. It argues for this based on considerations of mutual benefit and the Reciprocal Sovereignty Principle, and contrasts the type of left libertarianism that this theory generates with other versions of left libertarianism, such as those advocated by Henry George, Hillel Steiner, Peter Vallentyne and Michael Otsuka, generally supporting the use of land value taxation and Pigouvian taxes (e.g. a carbon tax). It also explores some of the implications of this approach for issues such as welfare, climate change and public funding of education and health care.
