My Talks
Profit
Maximization: The Least Bad Solution To the Coordination
Problem. Leavey School of Law, SCU, 10/25/25
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.