This is a followup to comments on KOL418 | Corporations, Limited Liability, and the Title Transfer Theory of Contract, with Jeff Barr: Part II.
For more on this, see Stephan Kinsella, “The Title-Transfer Theory of Contract,” Papian Press Working Paper #1 (Sep. 7, 2024) and “A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, and Inalienability,” chap. 9 of Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston: Papinian Press, 2023).
Brian‘s comment on KOL418: [continue reading…]
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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 443.
“Abortion: A Radically Decentralist Approach,” 2024 Annual Meeting, Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, Turkey (Sep. 22, 2024). Recorded with my phone. Better recording and video to come.
A Life in Liberty: Liber Amicorum in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe was published today, Sep. 21, 2024, at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, in Bodrum, Turkey. More information here.
Some photos from the ceremony announcing the book are below.
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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 442.
This is a debate between me and Walter Block about voluntary slavery contracts, hosted by Matthew Sands of the Nations of Sanity project as part of his “Together Strong” debate series. (See previous episode KOL426)
Unedited transcript (from Youtube) below. [continue reading…]
As I recounted in “How I Became a Libertarian,” in Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023), I was fortunate to meet Murray Rothbard before he died, in October 1994 at the John Randolph Club meeting near Washington, D.C, where he autographed by copy of Man, Economy, and State: “To Stephan: For Man & Economy, and against the state –Best regards, Murray Rothbard.” 1
I had forgotten some of details of that trip but just came across a letter to a former law school classmate from 1996 which has some details about my first meeting with Rothbard, Hoppe, et al. Here is an edited excerpt: [continue reading…]
In the Preface to Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023 [LFFS]), which contains updated articles published over a nearly 30 year period from 1994 to 2023, I noted that
Although the chapters were all written separately and at different times over three decades, many of them build on (or anticipated) others. For example, in chapter 10, originally published 1998–99, I outlined a sketch of a view of contracts, inalienability, and so on (note 48), and wrote “Elaboration of these ideas will have to await a subsequent article.” I did so in 2003, in the article which became chapter 9. Thus, I was able to piece together several articles in a fairly systematic form since they either built on or anticipated each other and were written to be consistent with each other and all flowing from the same core principles and reasoning.
Thus, my book contains chapters that build and refer to each other even if they were written years apart. [continue reading…]
This is my Preface to Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023); see also Hoppe’s Foreword.
The issue of what property rights we have, or should have, what laws are just and proper, has long confronted mankind, and continues to be the subject of debate today. This book seeks to address these issues, with an approach that keeps in mind the nature and reality of human life—that we are purposeful human actors living in a world of scarcity and facing the possibility of interpersonal conflict—and the purpose of law and property norms: to enable us to live together, in society, peacefully and cooperatively. The goal is to vindicate the private law as developed in the decentralized systems of the Roman and common law, with an emphasis on consistency, principle, and the inviolable rights of the individual. In short, to argue for a private law system informed by libertarian principles. [continue reading…]
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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 441.
This is Episode 238 of The Bitcoin Standard Podcast, with Dr. Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard. From his shownotes:
Legal Scholar Stephan Kinsella joins to discuss his new book, Legal Foundations of a Free Society, in which he discusses libertarianism as a system for determining legitimate property rights, why property rights are important, and the problem with intellectual property rights..
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