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We normally meet on the second Monday of the month at 7pm but note that this month it is at a new place viz. The Institute of Education, off Russell Square - student bar, Room S16, Thornhaugh Street , London , WC1B 5EA All are welcome, admission free. So do come along. DAVID McDONAGH

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David McDonagh "Money and Anarchy" from LibertarianAlliance on Vimeo.

 

Christian Michel "Citizens without the State" from LibertarianAlliance on Vimeo.

 

Stephen Berry on "The idea of Human Capital" from LibertarianAlliance on Vimeo.

 

Bob Layson "The possibility of stimulating the economy" from LibertarianAlliance on Vimeo.

 

Barry MacLeod-Cullinane "The Political Economy of Welfare Reform" from LibertarianAlliance on Vimeo.

 

Stephen Davis on "The Age of Realignment" from LibertarianAlliance on Vimeo.

 

Kristian Niemietz on "Spirit Level Egalitarianism, Happiness Economics, Steady State Economics: The crusade against prosperity" from LibertarianAlliance on Vimeo.

 

David McDonagh on "Libertarianism and Nationalism" from LibertarianAlliance on Vimeo.

 

Brian Micklethwait on "Architecture and Libertarianism" from LibertarianAlliance on Vimeo

 

Bob Layson on “The impossibility of free market mass unemployment" from LibertarianAlliance on Vimeo

 

Mark Littlewood on "Libertarianism's Challenges, Opportunities and Threats in the Coalition Era" from LibertarianAlliance on Vimeo.

Anthony J. Evans on "A Proposal for Sound Money" from LibertarianAlliance on Vimeo.

Detlev Schlichter on "Paper Money Collapse - The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown" from LibertarianAlliance on Vimeo 

Tim Evans on "Thoughts on the UK's Libertarian Movement" from LibertarianAlliance on Vimeo.

 

Derrick Silver on "Global Warming" from LibertarianAlliance on Vimeo.

On Monday 14 April, 2008, Sean Gabb gave a talk on "Islam: Our Enemy?"

 

 


Past Meetings with Podcasts

Podcasts from now are on Mixcloud, please click link to go to the online player. For older podcasts - windows vista users - please right click link and "save as"

 


On Monday 9 July, Jan Lester spoke on:
" Kymlicka on “Libertarianism”: Some Philosophical Responses to his Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction '

 


On Monday 11 June, Thomas H. Burroughes spoke on: "How should libertarians think about intellectual property".

 


On Monday 14 May, Andrew McGinn spoke on "Reactionary Libertarianism"

 


On Monday 16th April J C Lester spoke on "Vallentyne and Zwolinski on 'Libertarianism': Some Philosophical Responses to Their Encyclopaedia Entries."

Transcript of this talk


 

On Monday 12 March Bob Layson spoke on
Liberty and Bankers

 


On Monday 13 February Sean Gabb spoke on “What is class?”.

 


On Monday 9 January Antoine Clarke spoke on “Emigration: how I found freedom in an ‘unfree’ France.

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On Monday 12 December Tim Evans gave a talk on “The work of The Cobden Centre

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On Monday 14 November, Eamonn Butler gave a talk "Milton Friedman: libertarian or statist?"

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On Monday 10 October, David McDonagh gave a talk "Money and Anarchy".

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On Monday 12 September, Christian Michel gave a talk on 'Citizens without the state'

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On Monday 8 August, Stephen Berry gave a talk on "the idea of Human Capital"

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On Monday 11 July, Bob Layson gave a talk on " the possibility of stimulating the economy"

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On Monday 13 June, Barry MacLeod-Cullinane gave a talk on "Personalisation, Vouchers & the Political Economy of Welfare Reform - my experienzce of making Harrow Council one of Britain's leading boroughs for extending choice and control over social care"

 


On Monday, 9 May Stephen Davis talked on "An Age of Realignment?"

 


On Monday 11 April, Kristian Niemietz talked on "Spirit Level Egalitarianism, Happiness Economics, Steady State Economics: The crusade against prosperity"

 


On Monday, 14 March, David McDonagh talked on "Liberalism and Nationalism."

 


On Monday, 14 February Brian Mickletwaith talked on “Architecture.

 


On Monday, 10 January Bob Layson talked on
The impossibility of free market mass unemployment.”

 


On Monday, 13 December Mark Littlewood talked on
Libertarianism’s Challenges, Opportunities
and Threats in the Coalition Era.

 


”On Monday, 8 November Anthony J. Evans presented "A Proposal for Sound Money"

 


On Monday, 11th October, Detlev Schlichter spoke on
“Paper Money Collapse - The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown".

 


On Monday, 13 September Tim Evans spoke on
‘Thoughts on the UK’s Libertarian Movement’

Thoughts on the UK’s Libertarian Movement

 


On Monday, 9 August Derrick Silver spoke on Global Warming." Below is the link to both an audio and video file. Audio file is:
Global Warming

 


On Monday, 12 July Jock Coates talked on “Mutualism”.
Mutualism

 


On Monday, 14 June Christian Michel talked on “Our Northwest Passage, How to go from here to a free society”
Our Northwest Passage

 


On Monday, 12 April, Madsen Pirie spoke on "Libertarianism - the Philosophy of the Future." Libertarianism - the Philosophy of the Future

 


On Monday, 8 March Bob Layson spoke on
"The morality and economics of transfer 'payments' by the state."
The morality and economics of transfer 'payments' by the state

 


On Monday, 15 February David McDonagh gave the second part of his talk on
Why Classical Liberalism faded after 1860"

 


On Monday 11 January 2010 Antoine Clarke talked on “The Wisdom of Crowds”.
The Wisdom of Crowds

Discussion: Discussion of the Wisdom of Crowds

 


On Monday 14 December, Kristian Niemietz talked on

“20 Years After: The Fall and Rise of Socialism in East Germany”
Part I
| Part II

 


On Monday, 9 November David McDonagh gave a talk on
“Why Classical Liberalism faded after 1860.” - Part I | Part II

 


On Monday, 12 October, Robert Layson gave a talk on
30 Years of Libertarianism”. 

 


On Monday, 14 September, Richard Wellings gave a talk on
'Hyperinflation'

 


On Monday, 10 August, Stephen Berry gave a talk on
"How Britain won the war but lost the empire"

 


On Monday, 8 June, 2009 Christian Michel gave a talk on
Why We Have Rights

 


On 11 May 2009 David McDonagh gave a talk on
The Keynesian Revolution

 


On Monday 9 March, 2009: Bob Layson spoke on
Hayek, Austrian Economics and the Place of Ignorance in the Market Order

 


On Monday 10 November, 2008, James Alexander gave a talk on the
"current financial crisis: some of the causes, some of the cures".

 


On Monday 8 September, 2008, David McDonagh gave a talk on
Norman Angell and the problem of war
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On Monday 11 August, 2008, Ray Percival gave
a talk on
"Openness to Argument"

 


On Monday 7 July, 2008, Jan Narveson talked on
"Liberalism and Libertarianism"

 


On Monday 9 June, 2008 Bob Layson gave a talk on
"Non-Equilibrium Economics, or Economics as if Things Were As They Are"

 


On Monday 12th May, 2008 Phil Anderson gave a talk entitled
"Why Libertarian thought would guarantee violent and unstoppable economic booms and busts, unless.…… "

 


On Monday 10th March, 2008, David Goldstone gave a talk on  
"Some problems in liberal jurisprudence"

 


Monday 11th February, 2008 Terry Arthur on his new book:
"Crap: A Guide to Politics"

 


Jan Lester "Real law versus arbitrary state commands posing as law."
Monday 10th December, 2007
Download Podcast

 


David Dunstan "Global warming, scam, fact, post-diction or prediction?"
Monday 10th September, 2007, 
Download Podcast

 


David McDonagh "Political Correctness and totalitarianism. "
Monday 12th March, 2007, 
Download Podcast

 


On Monday 12th February, 2007, Bob Layson gave
a talk on "Tolstoy and Anarchism".

 


On Monday 8th January, 2007, Paul Coulam gave a  talk on "The Importance of Ideology".

 


On Monday 11th December, 2006, Stephen Berry gave
a talk on environmentialism. Transcript of this talk

 


On Monday 13th November, 2006, John Laughland gave a talk on "The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the corruption of International Law"

 


On Monday 9th October,  2006,  Robert Layson gave a talk on "What happened to nineteenth century liberalism?"

 


On Monday 4th September,  2006,  David McDonagh gave a talk on "Keith Evens on Drugs" . 

 


On Monday 31 July 2006, Don Riley gave a talk on the nineteenth century author on popular economics and advocate of a single land tax, Henry George.

 


On Monday 26 June 2006, Elaine Sternberg gave a talk
on the political philosopher, Michael Oakeshott.

 


On Monday 22 May, 2006, Paul Coulam gave
a talk entitled: "On Libertarianism and Morality:
A Conjecture".

 


On Monday 24 April, 2006, Richard Wellings gave
a talk entitled: "When The State Appropriates Land:
Compulsory Purchase and Eminent Domain".

 


On Monday 27 March, 2006,  Jan Lester gave a
talk on  "A Libertarian Defence of Intellectual Property"

 


Monday 27 February, 2006, Gene Callahan gave a
talk entitled "Does Austrian Business Cycle Theory
Explain Recessions?"

 


Monday 30 January, 2006,  Bob Layson gave a
talk on 'Opportunity, Welfare and the Disabling State'.

 


Monday 28 November, 2005, Jan Clifford Lester 
talked on : "Equality: an unmitigatedly bogus ideal."

 


Monday October 31, 2005, Joe Plowright talked on
"What have the Romans done for us? A  talk on aspects
of immigration"

 


Monday, 26th September David McDonagh  gave a talk on  the topic of the ideas of the late Lord Peter Tomas Bauer.

 


Monday 29 August Terry Arthur gave talk on  the topic  of Pensions.
Pension Myths

 


Monday 25 July Bob Layson gave  a talk on "The myth of Mental Illness."

 


Tuesday 22 February 2005 .Bob Layson talked on  "Keynes & Kuhn:paradigms & changing times".

 


Monday 17 January 2005 David McDonagh talked on "Is classical liberalism just another ideology?" 

 


Monday 6 December 2004 Gene Callahan talked on "The economic calculation argument against socialism/ communism."

 


Monday 1 November 2004 Barry MacLeod-Cullinane gave a talk entitled "ID Cards: Passports to Tyranny?"

 


Wednesday 13 October - Terry Arthur gave a talk entitled
"Europe and Free Trade

 


Wednesday 15 September - David McDonagh gave a talk
entitled "The ethics of Joseph Butler".

 


Wednesday 11th August 2004 David McDonagh gave a talk entitled "
How far did J.S. Mill let liberalism down?"

 


Monday 5 July 2004 Bob Layson gave a talk entitled "Mises Without Embarrassment."

 


Monday, 7 June 2004 Professor David Dunstan gave a talk critical of liberalism entitled "The Real Outcomes of Free-Market Economics" Transcript of this talk: 
4MedievalFreeMarket.doc

 


Monday, 5 April 2004 Don Riley talked on "A Trip Through Land Values."

 


Monday, 2 February 2004 Stephen Berry talked on "Education without the State". Transcript of this talk:
Education without the state.doc

 


Monday, 5 January 2004 David Goldstone talked on
"Law without the State - a step too far?"

 


Monday, 1 December 2003 Michael Mosbacher talked on
 'Anti-capitalism today - new criticisms or the same old arguments?'

 


Monday 3 November 2003 Paul Coulam talked on
'The Myth of Sexual Ethics'.

 


Monday 6 October 2003 Robert Layson talked on Say's Law of Markets.

 


Monday 8 Sept 2003 Paul Coulam talked on Paleo-libertarianism: The Contested Legacy of Murray Rothbard.

 


Monday 4 August 2003  David McDonagh talked on
Kropotkin's attack on T.H. Huxley on competition in nature & human society

 

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