Ludwig von Mises wrote that the critical role of private property in securing freedom was the most outstanding insight of the liberal intellectual tradition. But few have carried his point as far as Hans-Hermann Hoppe, professor of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies , and one of today's most brilliant and creative libertarian philosophers.
In this 10-session course, Hoppe presents a full-blown social, economic, and political philosophy centered on a single insight: the institution of private property provides a viable basis for the development of society in absence of the state. Topics covered include the philosophical justification of private property; the implications of ownership for economic science; the relationship between justice and property; the meaning of contracts and covenants; the origin of the state; the origin and development of society; the role of natural and artificial elites; the market for law services and security; democracy and monarchy; the viability of secession; war and imperialism; the moral urgency of a pure private-property order; the cultural and religious dimension to property; and strategic considerations in libertarian activism.
Ten lectures on 10 cassettes tapes, in a bookshelf case.