Stephan Kinsella, “Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy, and Order. By Anthony de Jasay. London and New York: Routledge, 1997,” Q. J. Austrian Econ. 1, no. 1. (Fall 1998): 85–93. Revised version published as “Review of Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy, and Order, by Anthony de Jasay,” in Legal Foundations of a Free Society (forthcoming 2023).
“Lançamento do livro A Grande Ficção, de Hans-Hermann Hoppe” [Permalink: https://perma.cc/2U28-WPJ8], “Afterword,” in Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Great Fiction: Property, Economy, Society, and the Politics of Decline (Laissez Faire Books, 2012) and “Afterword” [PDF] (Second Expanded Edition, Mises Institute, 2021). Portuguese translation of The Great Fiction.
The originally-published article is here: How We Come To Own Ourselves, Mises Daily (Sep. 7, 2006). (Mises.org blog discussion; audio version) See also Rothbard, Ethics of Liberty, anticipating Hoppe’s argument for self-(body) ownership: “He also discovers the natural fact of his mind’s command over his body and its actions: that is, of his natural ownership over his self.” See […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 347. My appearance on a new youtube channel, This Time I’m Curious (TTIC) with Jesse Munson, Episode 1 (recorded July 4, 2021). We talked about a variety of topics — the history/evolution of libertarianism and my involvement in it, Ayn Rand, the Ron Paul movement, animal rights, AI consciousness and […]
Just came across this article I wrote 10 years ago for the Christian Science Monitor, that I had totally forgotten about. (Note: I did not choose the title. I would not use the term “thief” to refer to anyone who uses ideas of others. See Stop calling patent and copyright “property”; stop calling copying “theft” […]
“Estoppel: A New Justification for Individual Rights,” Reason Papers No. 17 (Fall 1992), p. 61–74 PDF evaluation by anonymous reviewer audio version at KOL042 The Genesis of Estoppel: My Libertarian Rights Theory (Mar. 22, 2016) “Punishment and Proportionality: The Estoppel Approach,” Journal of Libertarian Studies 12, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 51–73 Defending Argumentation Ethics: Reply to […]
“A Libertarian Theory of Punishment and Rights,” Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 30, no. 2 (Jan. 1997): 607-45. PDF text version with italics and some formatting missing. Below is an edited version to be used for publication in Law in a Libertarian World, which also includes some material from “Punishment and Proportionality: The Estoppel Approach, 12:1 Journal of […]
The Second Expanded Edition of Professor Hoppe’s The Great Fiction: Property, Economy, Society, and the Politics of Decline has been published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute (2021). More information available here. My Afterword is repixeled below [PDF]. For related material, see also: Print and pdf Foreword by Jeff Deist Hoppe’s The Great Fiction, Expanded Second […]
I was just made aware of Nuevas direcciones racionalistas en la teoría libertaria de los derechos, a Spanish translation of my article New Rationalist Directions in Libertarian Rights Theory, 12:2 Journal of Libertarian Studies: 313-26 (Fall 1996) (a slightly updated version of which was published as “Dialogical Arguments for Libertarian Rights,” in The Dialectics of Liberty (Lexington […]
Stephan Kinsella, “Knowledge, Calculation, Conflict, and Law” (review essay of Randy E. Barnett, The Structure of Liberty), Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 2, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 49–71 [pdf]. To appear in Law in a Libertarian World. The second edition of Barnett’s book, published in 2014, concedes one of my criticisms (of his use of […]
