Property Rights

Many people want the state to take the lead in revitalizing run-down towns. How does this make sense, when it is private industry that conceived these towns in the first place?

Michael Huemer has recently come up with some cases in which taxation is justified. Is it, though?

When we think in terms of the foundational law of property, it's clear that broad charges of aggression through infection are spurious at best.

Do people have a duty of distributive justice, leaving the state aside?

Many people want the state to take the lead in revitalizing run-down towns. How does this make sense, when it is private industry that conceived these towns in the first place?

Recorded at Mises University 2021.

Analyzing property rights in Nigeria from a Rothbardian point of view shows that the major reason for poverty in Nigeria is governmental neglect and abuse of property rights.

Dr. Roberta Modugno and Jeff Deist finish examining Rothbard's The Ethics of Liberty. Dr. Modugno elaborates on Rothbard's disagreements with Mises regarding ethical justifications for a free society, and defends his uncompromising views on the nature of the state.

Ryan McMaken joins the show to tackle the toughest and most controversial chapters ofThe Ethics of Liberty—abortion, the rights of children, defamation, and all the "what-ifs" contained in lifeboat situations.

Rothbard gives us the rough foundation of justice, but only common law juries—temporalized and local—can fill in the gaps.