Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 331.
This is my appearance on Phil Gibson’s podcast A Boy Named Pseu. Youtube video:
From Phil’s shownotes:
Stephan Kinsella is an attorney and libertarian writer. We discuss:
- Libertarianism
- Patents
- Trademarks
- Intellectual Property
- Economics [See Knowledge vs. Calculation]
- Bitcoin
- and then some…
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and retired patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020), and The Universal Principles of Liberty (2025).
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Great discussion on Hayek’s infatuation with knowledge/information. I think it accounts for more of the schism between Austrian camps than is usually recognized, as well as why the “Hayekians” are, as a rule, more tolerant and tolerated by the mainstream. The perhaps tenuous link to information theory is a key to the approach’s respectability. It sits well with a “naturalized” view of information. This is something that Janich wrote on, and I seem to remember Hoppe mentioning Janich in one of his talks.