[This article is based on a speech delivered at Mises University 2009 (July 30, 2009; audio ; video ).] Most libertarians find some areas of libertarian theory more interesting than others. My own passion has always been rights theory and related areas, such as the theory of contracts, causation, and punishment. [1] Intellectual property (IP),
The cool, hip techno-pundits are usually reliably Obama-liberal/libertarian-lite types. A bit California-smug, engineer-scientistic , anti-principle, anti-”extreme.” But okay overall. A soft, tolerant, whitebread bunch. On the last This Week in Tech , I was pleasantly surprised to hear the always interesting Jason Calacanis voice support for
Hans-Hermann Hoppe is one of the most important scholars of our time. He has made pioneering contributions to sociology, economics, philosophy, and history. He is the dean of the present-day Austrian School of economics, and is famous as a libertarian philosopher. He and his writings have inspired scholars all over the world to follow in his
[Este ensayo está adaptado de una contribución para Property, Freedom, and Society. ] Propiedad, derechos y libertad Los libertarios tienden a ponerse de acuerdo sobre una amplio espectro de políticas y principios. Sin embargo, no es fácil encontrar un consenso sobre la característica principal del libertarismo, o de lo que lo distingue de otras
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.