Ep. 547 The Central Rothbard Contribution I Overlooked, and Why It Matters

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Tom Woods

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🗓️ 3 December 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Stephan Kinsella explains the importance of Rothbard's theory of contract -- a point I myself did not appreciate until this episode -- and contrasts it with mainstream theories, which most libertarians think are the same as their own. We need to get these fundamentals right, so listen in and learn with me!

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 547.
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0:33.2	We're joined once again by Stefan Kinsella, because today we're talking about foundational issues related
0:39.9	to libertarianism, and I can think of no one better to help us clarify our thinking on questions
0:45.4	like this than Stefan. And ordinarily, as I would do in these episodes, and as I've done in the
0:50.8	past with Stefan, I would launch into a biographical discussion of the guest,
0:56.6	but instead I'm going to turn things over to Stefan and say, Stefan, what do you think people should know about you?
1:02.6	Well, I was born in a little town in Louisiana. I knew I shouldn't have done this. I'm a libertarian patent attorney in Houston. How about that? Oh, but you've done so much more.
1:14.2	I want to know about your writings. Okay, so I am a practicing attorney, but I've written a lot on
1:20.5	libertarian legal theory for the journal of libertarian studies. And then I founded sort of a successor
1:27.0	journal called Libertarian Papers, which is still ongoing, which I'm the managing editor of.
1:33.2	And, yeah, I've written some books, and I've written on intellectual property, both the legal side and the libertarian theory side.
1:42.1	I am going to be linking to everything that we talk about today in terms of
1:47.4	articles that you've written and stuff like that. I'll link to it at tomwoods.com slash 547. I spent last
1:55.2	night actually reading some of your stuff that I hadn't read before, and then all the way up to the
2:00.1	moment I called you today, I was reading your stuff.
2:03.2	So I am very much in a can sell a frame of mind right now. And I have to say, I want to get to this later.
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