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All property law, basically.

• HarryHirsch 9y ago
  Indeed. It's no accident that the Libertarian outlook puts so much stock in property law and very little in labour law, it's an outflow of the Powell Memorandum. When you have much property to lose you seek to protect it, but when your only property is your labour then Libertarianism can't do much for you.
  • anigbrowl 9y ago
    Excellent point. I have yet to hear a meaningful reply to the argument that 'the American free enterprise system' implicitly depends on having a whole continent's worth of resources to exploit at the outset. Libertarianism would be a lot easier to take seriously if it banned inheritance or something to prevent the accumulation of resources that could be handed to others, which is at odds with the whole notion of meritocracy. Libertarians do make some effort to speak up for open labor markets and abolition of borders, but I can't think of any libertarians leading the charge for immigration reform offhand.