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True. He mentioned that numerous times. I only posted this as his speech is brillliant and it's interesting for those who only think of him as always being an anarchist.
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Just finished watching all of it. Walter was amazing.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0B5d8rjbMs @ 1h14min ;)
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Really poor sound but is de Soto commiting in that clip to an ancap society or is it just me mishearing? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk2wmYyziKo @4.05 "... and I should tell you that I will dedicate all my effort in my life to try to dismantle and destroy the state".
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What Rothbard does not recognize are the more subtle forms of production, such as the production of information He recognised that information can be owned as long as it's in one's head. Once it has been made public or transmitted to another agent, the "copy" of it cannot be owned as one cannot claim an ownership of someone else's
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I saw that they were recording it. Hopefully there will be a video published soon. Here is the link of the event: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2010/20101028t1830vSZT.aspx And here is the lecture in mp3: http://richmedia.lse.ac.uk/publicLecturesAndEvents/20101028_1830_financialCrisisAndEconomicRecession.mp3
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Hi, Just got back from this event at LSE in London. I quite enjoyed his lecture despite his deficiency in English language (poor thing misspelt my name when signing his book even though I spelt out every letter :). He seems a charismatic, certainly appeared passionate about the subject of Austrian Business Cycle Theory. The theatre was packed. He started
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My colleagues are a mix of statists who think they have higher moral authority because they want to help the poor with other (greedy) people's money and apathic folks who can't be bothered to think about such things as morality, natural law, economics of philosophy, they'd rather play on Wii. I often get into a verbal confrontation with
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ir_xQZyOUQ This is just one fallacy after another. Especially interesting response to a gentleman at 1h10min. Enjoy
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Pardon me, what I meant was that he's using similar "arguments" as made by the establishment against free market and private property.