Legal System

Recorded at Mises University 2001.

Natural law does not depend directly on God’s will. Natural law goes back to at least the scholastics and perhaps Thomas Aquinas. Modern Natural Rights theory began in 1625. Modern theory recognizes the institution the state. Natural law is thought to produce inalienable natural rights. They speak to the dignity of the individual and life and property. The close connection between liberty and property is part of this tradition.

Free markets shift resources from where they are less valued to where they are most valued, benefiting consumers. When private property and free markets are allowed to operate, a natural conservation of resources occurs. Nothing is a resource unless it is useful to man.

Recorded at Mises University 2003.

Recorded at Mises University 2003.

Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (25:41)

Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.

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Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (30:32)

Recorded at Mises University 2003.

WWI was a kind of turning point. Bolshevism, National Socialism and fascism are related ideologies which surfaced after the war. Fascism was the wave of the future in 1920 with its notion of government central planning.