My Talks
A Positive Account of Rights
, Budapest, 2018.
Education
. Online talk for Karl Popper Society, Oxford, 1/6/21
Arguments Libertarians Should Not Make
London, Adam Smith Institute/ 4/25/24,
Video
Porcfest, Lancaster, N.H. 6/23/18
Audio
Powerpoints
Libertarian Party of Santa Clara County, 1/26/19
Videos
Q&A
Problems with Libertarianism
, 1981
Law Without the State
Law Without the State
, Voluntaryism Conference, Sedona, Arizona, 11/2/24
Poznan, Poland, 4/23/24.
Video
The Past and Future of Law Without the State
– 2017-06-07, Budapest
Medieval Anarchy?
A discussion
of Irish and Icelandic systems
with Kevin Flanagan
Market Anarchy
, Santiago de Compostella, 3/10/20,
powerpoints
Brazilia
, 11/18/17,
Video
23/18
Belo Horizonte
, 11/16/17 at IBMEC,
Powerpoints
Hong Kong
, 5/21/14,
Powerpoints
Istituto Bruno Leoni,
Milan
, 1/21/13 (audio)
Adam Smith Institute, 1/16/13
(
Audio
)
Video
Future Imperfect
Goiana
(with Portuguese translation) 11/17/17,
Powerpoints
Porto Alegre
11/13/17,
Powerpoints
IEA
, London, 7/2/16
Shanghai
(missing the beginning, includes summaries in Mandarin),
5/14/14 .
Powerpoints
.
Madrid
, Centro Rojano, 1/25/13
Libertopia
, October 17, 2010. Beginning missing.
Google
, Mountain View, 9/3/08
Technological Revolutions that Might Happen and Their Consequences
London, Libertarian Alliance Conference, 2008
Externality Arguments: Climate and Populati
on
Consequences of Climate Change
, Humanist Community of Silicon Valley, 9/24/23
The Externality problem: Population, Climate, Pandemic
4/29/22 Budapest
The Problem with Externality Arguments: Climate and Population
, IEA 3/5/20, Audio,
Global Warming, Population, and the Problem With Externality Arguments
, Las Vegas 10/20/17 AFPF
"Global Warming, Population, and the Problem with Externality Arguments"
Oxford Libertarian Society, 1/15/13
"Global Warming and Other Good Things in Our Future
(I didn't create the title)
N.Y., N.Y., 3/5/12
Feud Law
Feud Law
, Madrid, 3/7/20
Feud Law
, Prague, 4/17/18
Feud Law
, Pahrump, NV 10/20/17
Feud Law and Anarchy
: A talk given to Miami's Rothbardian Circle
, 3/23/16
Feud as Law Enforcement
, ISFLC 2/27/16 (First minute or so missing)
Powerpoints
Feud as Law Enforcement
, Xiamen, China, 5/17/14
Market Failure, Considered as an Argument both for and Against Government
Oxford Union
, 4/30/18
Oslo
, 4/28/18
Bucharest
, 4/19/18
Reno, 10/23/17
San Francisco (Cato)
, 9/23/16
Georgia
(the country) given over Skype 7/15/16
Sao Paulo, 10/19/15
Audio
.
Powerpoints
.
Seoul
, 5/8/14
Institute for Economic Affairs, 1/15/13
GMU October 2011
Liberty Forum, March 20, 2010
(Video)
FreedomFest, July 10, 2009
Should We Abolish Criminal Law
At SCU
with comments by David Sloss
Powerpoints
.
Our answers to student questions included but questions deleted (mostly inaudible and we didn't have permission) from the students.
Students for Liberty
Regional Conference, Berkeley, CA, Nov 3, 2012
La Sierra, October 18, 2010
Warsaw
, 2008.
(Video)
Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
Online
talk
for "Serious Science"
A lengthy
interview
with Keith Knight
A longer than average
talk
, down online for an SSC meetup
Adam Smith Institute 2020
audio
powerpoints
Porkfest 2013
Federalist Society
, University of Tulsa Law School, October 3rd, 2011
(and their relevance to Seasteads
)
Seasteading Conference, Sept 30, 2009
Video
of the talk webbed by The Seasteading Institute
Jewish Law
Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies Conference, May 10, 2012, Jerusalem
Online talk, April 2022,
Spotify
,
ApplePodcasts
Anarchism and Defense: The Hard Problem
. ISFLC, 2/15/14
National Defense in a Stateless Society
: The Hard Problem, Students for Liberty 11/9/13
What Economics is and Why It Isn't Boring
SFL, Charlotte, 10/22/16
What Economics is, Why It Isn't Boring, and its Relevance to Human Welfare
, IAI Talk online, 10/2/22
How to Make Economics Fun
: A talk given to teachers who grade the AP Econ exam.
"The Market for Law: Notes Towards a Third Edition of The Machinery of Freedom"
Liberalni Institute, Prague, May 29, 2012 [
Does not seem to be still up
]
Boise, Students for Liberty, March 16 2012,
Audio
,
Video
The Market for Law
Cato, November 29, 2011 (Video)
Market Failure on the Market for Law (and some other stuff)
GMU, Buchanan House, October 20, 2011
First hour
Some of the rest
Anarchy and Efficient Law
A video of a talk I gave for the Mises Institute in Brazil
What is Economics and What Does it Have to do With Law?
Federalist Society
, University of Arkansas Law School, Fayetteville
(First few seconds missing)
Federalist Society, Santa Clara University
, November 11, 2009
Book tv on C-Span2
Online
for an audience in Iran, February 1, 2022.
Law, Economics and Liberty
, Bratislava April 26, 2022
"
Encryption, Strong Privacy, and the Death of Copyright
"
Lewis and Clark Law School, March 18, 2009
A World of Strong Privacy: Anarcho-Capitalism Online
, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2017
The Machinery of Freedom
Cato
, December 2011
Libertopia
, October 16, 2010, about the book and my plans for a third edition.
Illustrated Summary
A talk by me with illustrations added by someone I had never met. An Open Source approach to online video.
Rights Enforcement Without Government
The first part of an interview arranged and illustrated by the same artist. Now I've met him.
Debates
My Debate with Gene Epstein, Porcfest 2024:
Resolved: "
The Austrian economics of Mises and Rothbard contains economic intuitions that are important, correct, and missing from Chicago School economics.
"
My debate with Walter Block on Austrian vs Chicago School Economics
Online, 12/13/21
My debate with Robert Wolff on Capitalism vs Socialism
Online, 11/5/20
My Debate with Austen Petersen on Anarchy vs Minarchy
(Recorded and webbed by someone else)
Debate on anarchy
with James Scott, Robert Ellickson moderating (and participating)
Trinity College, CT, 11/14/16
No Government is Better Than Limited Government
: My debate with Jan Helfeld. My
comments
on the debate. His
response
.
My 1981
debate
with George Smith on Ethics vs Economics as a way of defending libertarianism.
“Libertarianism versus socialism as the optimal means to achieve freedom”: My 1977
debate
with Tom Hayden.
Discussion
on a range of topics
Barcelona, Mises Institute, 1/28/13
(First few minutes missing)
Discussion on Various Subjects
In class, La Sierra, October 18, 2010.
Discussion
about ideas, mostly anarchism and ph
ilosophy, with Mathew Adelstein
"Mapping the Ethical Minefield: a Panel Discussion
with David Boaz and Scott Olmstead at the 1983 Libertarian Convention.
Reputational Enforcement Online
, Liberland Event, Serbia, 4/14/18
The Chicago vs the Austrian School
, an exchange with Robert Murphy at Porcfest 2013
A Consequentialist Theory of Anarcho-Capitalism
, Porcfest 2013
A Defense of Anarcho-Capitalism
Economics Club, Santa Clara University, November 11, 2009
Vinge, Heinlein, the Sagas, and Me:
Stateless and Semi-Stateless Societies in Fiction and Semi-Fiction
Duke, 4/18/13
Some Ideas
for Doctoral Theses in Economics
GMU, October 28, 2011
Schelling Points and Self-enforcing Contracts
GMU Public Choice Center, October 19th, 2011
Sustainability: Empty Rhetoric or a Bad Idea?
Talk
Power Points
SCU April 19, 2011
"Law, Technology and Economics: The Past and Future of Copyright"
University of Oregon Law School
March 18, 2009
A talk I gave in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on regulation, with Portuguese simultaneous translation.
Part 1
.
Part 2
.
Presentation
on privacy, with two other speakers, at Columbia Law School, March 4, 2011. My part starts a bit more than half way through.
Miscellaneous
A
video
by me about my father, done for his induction into the New Jersey Hall of Fame
Illustrated Interviews
Tomasz Kaye first added illustrations to an old interview I had done, then did some additional interviews to which he has been adding illustrations.
The Machinery of Freedom: Illustrated summary
Rights Enforcement Without Government
What About the Poor?
My Old Talks
Libertarian Problems
, Texas Libertarian Party Conference, 1981
An
old talk
of mine about my father that someone webbed as a video. My part starts about 22 minutes in.
A 1981 debate with George Smith on
The Foundation for Libertarianism: Ethics or Economics
Audio Interviews and podcasts
Online
interview
with Michael Liebowitz for The Rational Egoist podcast, 4/5/24
Podcast
with Gerry Bourdeau on moral philosophy, 11/10/23
Podcast
with Jack Roycrot-Sherry, partly about economics, 11/30/23
LiberatED Podcast, "
Thoughts on Unschooling
"
Interview
on "Modern Economics, Austrian Economics, and Uncertainty" in 20th Century Interviews
2/14/22
I
nterview
on "Words and Numbers," 1/21/22
Interview on
In Vires in Numeris
Podcast
(12/16/21)
Interview for the Russian translation of
Machinery
in
Russian
. In
English
.
Recent online interview with Hermitix
(2021)
Recent Podcast interview
in Insurrection Inc.
Interview
with "The Economics Detective" on
my
Legal Systems Very Different from Ours
draft, November 2017
Interview
with Erik Torenberg on Venture Stories, 6/19
Conversation
with George Schultz
Podcast on
The Curious Task
:
What Does Law Have To Do With Economics
Video Interviews
Interview
with James Knight on his Philosophical Muser YouTube show. 9/14/23
Interview
with
Arjun Khemani, 17 year-old Indian student and entrepreneur, 8/29/23
(also on
Spotify,
Apple Podcasts,
and
Substack
)
Interview
with
Niklas Anzinger, 8/29/23
From Private Property to Cyberspace
on Silicone Talks
Long interview
with Roderick Long
Interview
with Keith Knight on
Law's Order
and other things, 9/19/20, Also webbed
here
.
Interview
with Bob Murphy, 7/13/20
Interview
with Patrick Donohue, 6/6/2019
Interview
with Jason Hartman, 6/2019.
Interview
with Todd Lewis
(The Praise of Folly Podcast)
on my new book,
Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
(forthcoming).
A
discussion
with Todd Lewis (the Praise of Folly Podcast) on the problems of national defense for a stateless society.
An extended
interview
by Jadranko Brkic recorded in Hong Kong about 5/21/14
Interview
at Porcfest 6/21/2013
A video interview with me on
libertarian parenting
.
Reason.com interview on
How to Privatize Everything
, Libertopia 2012, San Diego
Brief interview
by Jan Helfeld at ISFLC 2016
Another brief interview
by Jan Helfeld at ISFLC 2016
Text Interviews
Interview
in
Prometheus
, the Newsletter of the Libertarian Future Society, with Michael Grossberg.
Interview
with Region Focus, a Federal Reserve of Richmond magazine, 2010
Interview
for Baen Books about my novel Harald, with Toni Weiosskopf
Interview
on Hidden Order with Brian Lamb,
Booknotes
.