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Kinsella’s “Libertarian Controversies” Course: Audio and Slides

by Stephan Kinsella on December 31, 2011

From my Libertarian Standard post:

At the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society (May 27-29, 2011), I delivered a speech entitled “Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions.” The video is here, and streamed below. It engendered a good deal of discussion and interest, and I could only touch on a small number of the topics I had assembled over the years, so later in the year, I conducted a 5 week Mises Academy course, “Libertarian Controversies” (Mondays, Sept. 19-Oct. 23, 2011), to cover these and related topics in greater depth. (The course is discussed in my Mises Daily article “Libertarian Controversies.”) The audio and slides for the 5 lectures of the course are provided below, following the PFS lecture.

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2018 Annual Meeting of the PFS

As noted here, the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society will be held from Thursday, September 13, 2018 (date of arrival) to Tuesday, September 18, 2018 (date of departure), in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess.

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“Because the concept of property, for instance, is so basic that everyone seems to have some immediate understanding of it, most people never think about it carefully and can, as a consequence, produce at best a very vague definition. But starting from imprecisely stated or assumed definitions and building a complex network of thought upon them can lead only to intellectual disaster. For the original imprecisions and loopholes will then pervade and distort everything derived from them. To avoid this, the concept of property must first be clarified.” —Hans-Hermann Hoppe, TSC, ch. 2

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