Gary’s response to my Molinari essay has been posted. His question: if Molinari’s labour-exchanges were a less than satisfactory way to redress the imbalance of power between labour and capital, what might be done instead?
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Molinari Unbound!
[cross-posted at BHL]
I’ve contributed the opening essay to an exchange on “Gustave de Molinari’s Legacy for Liberty” at Liberty Fund’s new “Liberty Matters” forum.
Responses by Gary Chartier, Matt Zwolinski, David Friedman, and David Hart, and will be forthcoming in a few days, followed by exchange among the five of us.
Thanks to Sheldon Richman for arranging this!
Panarchical Panegyric
It’s often been speculated that Paul-Émile de Puydt’s 1860 essay Panarchy might have been influenced by his fellow Belgian Gustave de Molinari’s similar ideas about competitive security services in his 1849 works The Production of Security and Soirées on the Rue Saint-Lazare.
Well, I don’t have new light on that question, exactly, but I have discovered that De Puydt’s essay received a highly favourable review in a journal edited by Molinari. I’ve just translated and posted the review, here.
The Summer Night Is Like a Perfection of Thought
March 31st is the deadline to apply to the Institute for Humane Studies’ two intellectual-history “Champions of Liberty” summer seminars for 2013 – Freedom Renewed: Libertarian Visionaries (June 8-14, Chapman University, covering Mill through the present) and Revolutionaries, Reformers, and Radicals: Liberty Emerges (July 27-August 2, Bryn Mawr, covering the School of Salamanca through the 19th-century anarchists; that’s the one I’m speaking at).
I’ve been at quite a few IHS gigs, on both the giving and receiving ends as it were, and they’re a lot of fun. They’re also free of charge to students, including food, lodging, and course materials (though not travel).
I’m also teaching at Mises U. (July 21-27) back to back with my IHS seminar. The application deadline for that is April 8th. (Same funding deal as IHS.) Collect them all!
Another Molinari/C4SS/ALL Wild West Tour
Upcoming Molinari/C4SS/ALL events in San Francisco (next week) and Hawaii (next month):
Pacific APA, Westin St. Francis, San Francisco, Wednesday, 27 March:
Molinari Society, 6:00-9:00 p.m. (or so) [G2E, room TBA]
Author Meets Critics: Gary Chartier’s Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society
critics:
Eric Roark (Millikin University)
Roderick T. Long (Auburn University)
Kevin Vallier (Bowling Green State University) [Kevin is likely to be absent, owing to impending paternity]author:
Gary Chartier (La Sierra University)
APEE, Sheraton Maui Resort, Lahaina, Maui HI, Tuesday, 16 April:
Topics in Free-Market Anti-Capitalism, 11:15 a.m.-12:25 p.m. [T5, room TBA]
Charles Johnson (Molinari Institute), “The Bold and the Beautiful: Commercial Concepts and the Company They Keep”
Ross Kenyon (University of Arizona), “The Class Divide in Libertarian Politics”
Roderick T. Long (Auburn University), “Left-Libertarianism, Class Conflict, and Historical Theories of Distributive Justice”
G. Patrick Lynch (Liberty Fund), “Liberty and Responsibility in the Writings of Isaiah Berlin and Vincent Ostrom”
I’ll also be on a Bastiat panel on Monday the 16th.
Liberty in La Jolla, Anarchy in Atlanta
I’ve now posted pics from my November San Diego / La Jolla trip (including the Liberty Fund conference on Molinari) and my December Atlanta trip (inlcuding the Molinari Society panel on anarchism). Some Molinari/C4SS/ALL-relevant samples follow:
