My Talks
Ptolemaic Tariffs, IEA, London, 5/7/25
An Economist’s Case for Liberty, ESFL, Prague, 2025
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 Population
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
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
Liberty
Forum, March 20, 2010 (Video)
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
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
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
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
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.
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, 12/13/21
My debate with Robert Wolff
on Capitalism vs Socialism, 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 philosophy, 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
Interview 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.
Interview with
Hermitix (2021)
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 Chuong Nguyen, from the Unlicensed
Philosophy podcast, 7/10/25
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 Legal Systems Very Different From
Ours
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.