KOL206 | Tom Woods Show: Five Mistakes Libertarians Make

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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 206.

I discussed various libertarian with Tom Woods on his show today, Episode 592. From Tom’s show notes:

Background materials for topics discussed:

• Spam:
  • Why Spam is Trespass (Jan. 18, 2010)
  • Kinsella & Tinsley, Causation and Aggression
• Positive rights and libertarianism:
  • How We Come To Own Ourselves
  • Objectivists on Positive Parental Obligations and Abortion
• Loser pays unlibertarian: See “Losing Patentee Pays” section of Reducing the Cost of IP Law
• Creation not a source of ownership:
  • Hoppe on Property Rights in Physical Integrity vs Value
  • Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright
  • “Locke on IP; Mises, Rothbard, and Rand on Creation, Production, and ‘Rearranging’,” Mises Economics Blog (Sep. 29, 2010) [updated C4SIF version, including Hoppe comments]
  • “The Intellectual Property Quagmire, or, The Perils of Libertarian Creationism,” Austrian Scholars Conference 2008 (March 13, 2008)
  • “Objectivist Law Prof Mossoff on Copyright; or, the Misuse of Labor, Value, and Creation Metaphors,” Mises Economics Blog (April 19, 2011) [archive version]
  • Rand on IP, Owning “Values”, and “Rearrangement Rights”

Related/previous talks:

• KOL118 | Tom Woods Show: Against Fuzzy Thinking
• KOL 044 | “Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions” (PFS 2011)
• “Libertarian Controversies”
• “Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions,” 2011 Annual Meeting, Property and Freedom Society (May 28, 2011) [podcast here]
• KOL185: Clarifying Libertarian Theory (Liberty.me, July 2014)