Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 021.
This is lecture 4 (of 6) of my 2011 Mises Academy course “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society.” The remaining lectures follow in subsequent podcast episodes.
Video, Transcript and Slides below.
This lecture's topic is "Causation, Aggression, Responsibility," and discusses:
Conspiracies and Incitement
Strict Liability. Responsibility for Property.
“Limitations” on property versus limitations on action
For slides for all six lectures, plus extensive hyperlinked suggested reading material, see this Libertarian Standard post. For a listing of the syllabus and topics covered in each lecture, see this Mises Academy Course Page (archived).
For more information, see my Mises Daily article “Introduction to Libertarian Legal Theory,” and Danny Sanchez’s post Study Libertarian Legal Theory Online with Stephan Kinsella.)
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The videos of all six lectures are also available on this playlist.
TRANSCRIPT
Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society, Lecture 4: Causation, Aggression, Responsibility
Stephan Kinsella
Mises Academy, Feb. 21, 2011
00:00:01
STEPHAN KINSELLA: … anything procedural, administrative, random, libertarian in general. And by the way, also, in addition to cramming a lot of material into six lectures, next week’s lecture will be IP, which we covered in six weeks in another lecture, so we’re cramming a lot in there. So this course you’re getting a lot of bang for your buck I believe. Okay, go ahead, Jock. General question on economics. Okay, you’re starting a BA in economics, mainstream economics next year.
00:00:42
00:00:51
Okay. So your background is only in heterodox economics. Okay, so what’s the question? You know, I actually don’t know if I’m the best one to answer this question. I’m a lawyer. I’m not an economist. I’m a student of economics, although I have some opinions. I mean I would say I do think Murphy’s course is probably the best one to be honest. But I mean I had a couple of economics courses in my engineering major back in college, and I just learned real economics on my own from reading books from Rothbard and Mises and other things. So I think Murphy’s book looks really good to be honest. I want to go through it myself with my son when he gets old enough, so I’m thinking that’s a good starting point. But you’re going to have to learn to poop out the regular stuff to these guys so that you pass, so I would treat them separately, learning their economics and real economics.
00:01:59
Okay, let’s get started. Yeah, and Murphy has a really great interview with Jeff Tucker about the Mises Academy and his course, and he talks about how he basically learned economics by writing his book, and I believe that. I can understand that. There are others, but I think he really tried really hard to distill it and to find a way to formulate it properly.
00:02:22
Oh, you know what? I did not put the slides for this lecture on the course site. Let me email those to – Danny, are you there? I’ll email those to you. Maybe you can do that while we talk. Give me just a second, guys. I’m going to send these to Danny right now. Maybe he can upload those to me. Give me five seconds. Here we go. Okay, I’m sending these to Danny right now, so hopefully he’s listening and can post them while we speak. Sorry, I meant to do that before. I did that last week, and I forgot to do it this time. Okay, so they’ll be posted shortly.
00:03:15
All right, so tonight we’re going to talk about causation and some related things that – I’m going to cover a few things that we left off of last time and elaborate on a few matters. So last time we were talking about the legal system of the libertarian world, about courts, private courts, anarchy, things like this. We talked about contract theory, and also, I was going to get to why fraud is aggression,
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