My Talks
Profit
Maximization: The Least Bad Solution To the Coordination
Problem. Leavey School of Law, SCU, 10/25/25
Ptolemaic Tariffs, IEA, London,
5/7/25
An Economist痴 Case for Liberty, ESFL, Prague, 2025
A Positive Account of Rights, Budapest, 2018.
Education. Online talk for Karl Popper Society, Oxford, 1/6/21
Arguments Libertarians Should Not Make
London, Adam Smith Institute/ 4/25/24, Video
Porcfest,
Lancaster,
N.H. 6/23/18
Audio
Powerpoints
Libertarian
Party
of Santa Clara County, 1/26/19
Videos
Q&A
Problems with Libertarianism, 1981
Law Without the State
Law
Without the State, Voluntaryism Conference, Sedona,
Arizona, 11/2/24
Poznan, Poland, 4/23/24. Video
The Past and Future of Law Without the State ? 2017年06月07日, Budapest
Medieval Anarchy? A discussion of Irish and Icelandic systems with Kevin Flanagan
Market Anarchy, Santiago de Compostella, 3/10/20, powerpoints
Brazilia, 11/18/17, Video 23/18
Belo Horizonte, 11/16/17 at IBMEC, Powerpoints
Hong Kong, 5/21/14, Powerpoints
Istituto Bruno Leoni, Milan, 1/21/13 (audio)
Adam Smith Institute, 1/16/13 (Audio) Video
Future Imperfect
Goiana
(with Portuguese translation) 11/17/17, Powerpoints
Porto Alegre 11/13/17, Powerpoints
IEA, London, 7/2/16
Shanghai (missing the beginning, includes summaries in Mandarin), 5/14/14 . Powerpoints.
Madrid, Centro Rojano, 1/25/13
Libertopia, October 17, 2010. Beginning missing.
Google, Mountain View, 9/3/08
Technological Revolutions that Might Happen and Their Consequences, London, Libertarian Alliance Conference, 2008
Externality Arguments: Climate and Population
Consequences
of
Climate Change, Humanist Community of Silicon Valley,
9/24/23
The Externality problem: Population, Climate, Pandemic 4/29/22 Budapest
The Problem with Externality Arguments: Climate and Population, IEA 3/5/20, Audio,
Global Warming, Population, and the Problem With Externality Arguments, Las Vegas 10/20/17 AFPF
"Global
Warming,
Population, and the Problem with Externality Arguments"
Oxford Libertarian Society, 1/15/13
"Global Warming and Other Good Things in Our Future (I didn't create the title), N.Y., N.Y., 3/5/12
Feud Law
Feud Law, Madrid, 3/7/20
Feud Law, Prague, 4/17/18
Feud Law, Pahrump, NV 10/20/17
Feud Law and Anarchy: A talk given to Miami's Rothbardian Circle, 3/23/16
Feud as Law Enforcement, ISFLC 2/27/16 (First minute or so missing) Powerpoints
Feud as Law Enforcement, Xiamen, China, 5/17/14
Market Failure, Considered as an Argument both for and Against Government
Oxford
Union, 4/30/18
Oslo, 4/28/18
Bucharest, 4/19/18
San Francisco (Cato), 9/23/16
Georgia (the country) given over Skype 7/15/16
Sao Paulo, 10/19/15 Audio. Powerpoints.
Seoul, 5/8/14
Institute for Economic Affairs, 1/15/13
Liberty Forum, March 20, 2010 (Video)
Should We Abolish Criminal Law?
At SCU with
comments by David Sloss Powerpoints.
Our answers to student questions included but questions
deleted (mostly
inaudible and we didn't have permission) from the students.
Students for Liberty Regional Conference, Berkeley, CA, Nov 3, 2012
Warsaw, 2008. (Video)
Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
Online talk for "Serious Science"
A lengthy interview with Keith Knight
A longer than average talk, down online for an SSC meetup
Adam Smith Institute 2020 audio powerpoints
Federalist Society, University of Tulsa Law School, October 3rd, 2011
(and their relevance to Seasteads), Seasteading Conference, Sept 30, 2009
Video of the talk webbed by The Seasteading Institute
Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies Conference, May 10, 2012, Jerusalem
Online talk, April 2022, Spotify, ApplePodcasts
Anarchism and Defense: The Hard Problem. ISFLC, 2/15/14
National Defense in a Stateless Society: The Hard Problem, Students for Liberty 11/9/13
What Economics is and Why It Isn't Boring SFL, Charlotte, 10/22/16
What Economics is, Why It Isn't Boring, and its Relevance to Human Welfare, IAI Talk online, 10/2/22
How to Make Economics Fun: A talk given to teachers who grade the AP Econ exam.
"The Market for Law: Notes Towards a Third Edition of The Machinery of Freedom", Liberalni Institute, Prague, May 29, 2012 [Does not seem to be still up]
Boise, Students for Liberty, March 16 2012, Audio, Video
The Market for Law, Cato, November 29, 2011 (Video)
Market Failure on the Market for Law (and some other stuff),GMU, Buchanan House, October 20, 2011, First hour Some of the rest
Anarchy and Efficient Law, A video of a talk I gave for the Mises Institute in Brazil
What is Economics and What Does it Have to do With Law?
Federalist Society,
University of
Arkansas Law School, Fayetteville, (First few seconds missing)
Federalist Society, Santa Clara University, November 11, 2009
Online for an audience in Iran, February 1, 2022.
Law, Economics and Liberty, Bratislava April 26, 2022
"Encryption, Strong Privacy, and the Death of Copyright", Lewis and Clark Law School, March 18, 2009
A World of Strong Privacy: Anarcho-Capitalism Online, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2017
The Machinery of Freedom
Cato,
December 2011
Libertopia, October 16, 2010, about the book and my plans for a third edition.
Illustrated Summary, a talk by me with illustrations added by someone I had never met. An Open Source approach to online video.
Rights Enforcement Without Government, The first part of an interview arranged and illustrated by the same artist. Now I've met him.
My Debate with Gene Epstein, Porcfest 2024: Resolved: "The Austrian economics of Mises and Rothbard contains economic intuitions that are important, correct, and missing from Chicago School economics. "
My debate with Walter Block on Austrian vs Chicago School Economics, 12/13/21
My debate with Robert Wolff on Capitalism vs Socialism, 11/5/20
My Debate with Austen Petersen on Anarchy vs Minarchy (Recorded and webbed by someone else)
Debate on anarchy with James Scott, Robert Ellickson moderating (and participating), Trinity College, CT, 11/14/16
No Government is Better Than Limited Government: My debate with Jan Helfeld. My comments on the debate. His response.
My 1981 debate with George Smith on Ethics vs Economics as a way of defending libertarianism.
鏑ibertarianism versus socialism as the optimal means to achieve freedom?: My 1977 debate with Tom Hayden.
Discussion on a range of topics, Barcelona, Mises Institute, 1/28/13 (First few minutes missing)
Discussion on Various Subjects, in class, La Sierra, October 18, 2010.
Discussion about ideas, mostly anarchism and philosophy, with Mathew Adelstein
"Mapping the Ethical Minefield: a Panel Discussion with David Boaz and Scott Olmstead at the 1983 Libertarian Convention.
Reputational
Enforcement
Online, Liberland Event, Serbia, 4/14/18
The Chicago vs the Austrian School, an exchange with Robert Murphy at Porcfest 2013
A Consequentialist Theory of Anarcho-Capitalism, Porcfest 2013
A Defense of Anarcho-Capitalism, Economics Club, Santa Clara University, November 11, 2009
Vinge, Heinlein, the Sagas, and Me: Stateless and Semi-Stateless Societies in Fiction and Semi-Fiction, Duke, 4/18/13
Some Ideas for Doctoral Theses in Economics, GMU, October 28, 2011
Schelling Points and Self-enforcing Contracts, GMU Public Choice Center, October 19th, 2011
Sustainability: Empty Rhetoric or a Bad Idea? Talk Power Points, SCU April 19, 2011
"Law, Technology and Economics: The Past and Future of Copyright", University of Oregon Law School March 18, 2009
A talk I gave in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on regulation, with Portuguese simultaneous translation. Part 1. Part 2.
Presentation on privacy, with two other speakers, at Columbia Law School, March 4, 2011. My part starts a bit more than half way through.
Miscellaneous
A video by me about my father, done for his induction into the New Jersey Hall of Fame
Illustrated Interviews
Tomasz Kaye first added illustrations to an old interview I had done, then did some additional interviews to which he has been adding illustrations. The Machinery of Freedom: Illustrated summary
Rights Enforcement Without Government: What About the Poor?
My Old Talks
Libertarian
Problems,
Texas Libertarian Party Conference, 1981
An old talk of mine about my father that someone webbed as a video. My part starts about 22 minutes in.
A 1981 debate with George Smith on The Foundation for Libertarianism: Ethics or Economics
Audio Interviews and podcasts
Online interview with Michael Liebowitz for The Rational Egoist podcast, 4/5/24
Podcast with Gerry Bourdeau on moral philosophy, 11/10/23
Podcast with Jack Roycrot-Sherry, partly about economics, 11/30/23
LiberatED Podcast, "Thoughts on Unschooling"
Interview on "Modern Economics, Austrian Economics, and Uncertainty" in 20th Century Interviews 2/14/22
I nterview on "Words and Numbers," 1/21/22
Interview on In Vires in Numeris Podcast (12/16/21)
Interview for the Russian translation of Machinery in Russian. In English.
Interview with Hermitix (2021)
Interview in Insurrection Inc.
Interview with "The Economics Detective" on my Legal Systems Very Different from Ours draft, November 2017
Interview with Erik Torenberg on Venture Stories, 6/19
Conversation with George Schultz
Podcast on The Curious Task: What Does Law Have To Do With Economics
Video Interviews
Interview with Chuong Nguyen,
from the Unlicensed
Philosophy podcast, 7/10/25
Interview with James Knight on his Philosophical Muser YouTube show. 9/14/23
Interview with Arjun Khemani, 17 year-old Indian student and entrepreneur, 8/29/23 (also on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Substack)
Interview with Niklas Anzinger, 8/29/23
From Private Property to Cyberspace on Silicone Talks
Long interview with Roderick Long
Interview with Keith Knight on Law's Order and other things, 9/19/20, Also webbed here.
Interview with Bob Murphy, 7/13/20
Interview with Patrick Donohue, 6/6/2019
Interview with Jason Hartman, 6/2019.
Interview with Todd Lewis (The Praise of Folly Podcast) on Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
A discussion with Todd Lewis (the Praise of Folly Podcast) on the problems of national defense for a stateless society.
An extended interview by Jadranko Brkic recorded in Hong Kong about 5/21/14
Interview at Porcfest 6/21/2013
A video interview with me on libertarian parenting.
Reason.com interview on How to Privatize Everything, Libertopia 2012, San Diego
Brief interview by Jan Helfeld at ISFLC 2016
Another brief interview by Jan Helfeld at ISFLC 2016
Text Interviews
Interview
in Prometheus, the Newsletter of the Libertarian
Future Society, with
Michael Grossberg.
Interview with Region Focus, a Federal Reserve of Richmond magazine, 2010
Interview for Baen Books about my novel Harald, with Toni Weiosskopf
Interview on Hidden Order with Brian Lamb, Booknotes.