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
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 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.
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.