Occupation: Lawyer Birth: 1965
The libertarian approach is a very symmetrical one: the non-aggression principle does not rule out force, but only the initiation of force. In other ….
We’re against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government..
Artists are just entrepreneurs. It's up to them to figure out how or if they can make a monetary profit from their passion − from their calling, as I….
We must recognize that only scarce resources are ownable; second, that the body is a type of scarce resource; third, that the mode of acquiring title….
There are any number of models artists can use to profit off of their talent and artistry. It is not up to the state to protect them from competition….
My basic approach is to recognize that mainstream legal theories of contract have been muddied by unlibertarian and positivistic conceptions of law a….
The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean home….
To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states necessarily employ aggression. And, therefore, that ….
Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist..
The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore has a better claim to ….
The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but then the printing press….
In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is the essence of market co….
The Austrian theory of subjective value teaches us that there are many ways to incentivize or motivate or induce someone to commit an action for you:….
I was always interested in science, truth, goodness and fairness. I have always been strongly individualistic and merit-oriented. This is probably be….