Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 045.
This is lecture 1 (of 6) of my 2011 Mises Academy course “Libertarian Controversies.” This lecture contained an overview of basic austro-libertarian concepts and started discussing various libertarian "misconceptions," regarding the left-right spectrum, coercion and force vs. aggression, the jurisdiction of private defense agencies, and related issues. I’ll release the remaining lectures here in the podcast feed in upcoming days.
This course followed on my speech "Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions," from the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society (May 27-29, 2011; see KOL 044 | “Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions” (PFS 2011)). That talk engendered a good deal of discussion and interest, but in the time allotted for a single speech I was able to cover only a small number of the topics I had assembled over the years. In the 6 week Mises Academy course, “Libertarian Controversies” (Sept. 19-Oct. 23, 2011), I covered these and related topics in greater depth. The course was planned for 5 weeks initially, but I added a sixth "bonus" lecture at student request. The course is discussed in my Mises Daily article “Libertarian Controversies” (Aug. 25, 2011); here are the audio and slides for all six lectures. The “suggested readings” for this lecture are appended below.
Update: see also
KOL185: Clarifying Libertarian Theory (Liberty.me, July 2014)
KOL 044 | “Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions” (PFS 2011)
SUGGESTED READING MATERIAL
General background readings are below; other particular links are provided in the slides for each lecture:
Recommended Background Readings
Kinsella, “What Libertarianism Is"
Kinsella, "Libertarian Controversies"
Hoppe, A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism [TSC], chapters 1-2, 7
Optional Background Readings
Rothbard, For A New Liberty [FaNL] and Ethics of Liberty [EoL] (both strongly recommended)
Huebert, Libertarianism Today (Scribd free version; Vance’s review; Kinsella review
Rockwell & Rothbard, eds., The Free Market Reader
Walter Block, Defending the Undefendable
Frederic Bastiat, The Law
Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
Linda & Morris Tannehill, The Market for Liberty
Lysander Spooner, No Treason No. VI: The Constitution of No Authority
Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Kinsella
What It Means To Be an Anarcho-Capitalist
How We Come To Own Ourselves
Causation and Aggression
Punishment and Proportionality: The Estoppel Approach
Inalienability and Punishment: A Reply to George Smith
Argumentation Ethics and Liberty: A Concise Guide
Defending Argumentation Ethics: Reply to Murphy & Callahan
New Rationalist Directions in Libertarian Rights Theory
Against Intellectual Property
The Case Against IP: A Concise Guide
The Trouble with Libertarian Activism
Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society
Summary version: Legislation and Law in a Free Society
Recommended Background Readings: Other
David Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom
Gary Chartier, The Conscience of an Anarchist
Bruno Leoni, Freedom and the Law
Bastiat, The Law; Economic Sophisms and Economic Harmonies
Charles Murray, What it Means to be a Libertarian
David Boaz, Libertarianism: A Primer; The Libertarian Reader: Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao Tzu to Milton FriedmanRichard Epstein, Simple Rules for a Complex World
Jeffery Miron, Libertarianism, from A to Z
Optional Background Readings: Bibliographies
Hoppe, Anarcho-Capitalism: An annotated bibliography
Kinsella, The Greatest Libertarian Books
David Gordon on Liberty
Lew Rockwell on Reading for Liberty
Others at LRC Bibliographies
Update: The videos of all six lectures are now available here; the video for this particular lecture is embedded below.
