Libertarian Answer Man

Libertarian Answer Man: Self-ownership for slaves and Crusoe; and Yiannopoulos on Accurate Analysis and the term “Property”; Mises distinguishing between juristic and economic categories of “ownership”

From X: Libertarian Answer Man, What Sayest Thou? “Crusoe owns nothing on his island, as there is no legal order. Does this include his body? He can control and use his body, but he doesn’t own it. Ownership is a legal relationship between an actor and a resource, that is recognized and respected by others […]

KOL327 | Libertarian Answer Man: Selling vs. Owning: With Shea Fisker

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 327. I was asked some questions about intellectual property, and how you can sell something (like information, or ideas, or even your labor) if you don’t own it, by Shea Fisker, a budding libertarian and fellow libertarian. He had just the right attitude. He listened and thought, and asked reasonable […]

Libertarian Answer Man: Restrictive Covenants, Reserved Rights, and Copyright

[Update: see also Libertarian Answer Man: Restrictive Covenants and Homeowners Associations (HOAs)] In yet another installment of Kinsella the libertarian answer man. This is an edited version of an interaction with a conversant (my, how legalistic Kinsella can be with his wording). Some background reading or things half-referenced in my rambling but brilliant screed of […]