TY - JOUR T1 - Homesteading, Ad Coelum, Owning Views and Forestalling AU - , Walter Block JO - The Social Sciences VL - 3 IS - 2 SP - 96 EP - 103 PY - 2008 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1818-5800 DO - sscience.2008.96.103 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2008.96.103 KW - Homesteading KW -ad coelum KW -forestalling KW -property rights KW -views KW -slant drilling AB - Homesteading, not the ad coelum doctrine, is compatible with libertarianism. In the former case, one mixes his labor with unowned land and a means of establishing private property rights in it and what is owned is limited to just that which has undergone this process. In the latter case, homesteading a square mile of land enables the owner of it to extend his property rights in a pyramid shaped form from his holdings on the surface down into the core of the earth and up into the heavens, with no limit. ER -