Mutual Exchange Radio: Emmi Bevensee on Decentralization and Economic Coordination

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Joining us today is Emmi Bevensee. Emmi is a senior fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society and currently organizing the Mutual Exchange Symposium on Decentralization and Economic Coordination. They identify as a solarpunk mutualist and research disinformation and fascism on the internet as a Mozilla Open Web fellow and data scientist. In this discussion, we discuss Emmi’s lead essay in C4SS’ recent Mutual Exchange Symposium on Decentralization and Economic Coordination.

Akiva Malamet on Nationalism and Identity Formation

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Akiva Malamet is a Frédéric Bastiat Fellow in political economy and public policy with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He has written for Liberal Currents, Libertarianism.org, and other publications. He was a winner of the 2018 ‘Carl Menger Undergraduate Essay Contest’ for his paper “Spontaneous Order as Social Construction”, from the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics (SDAE).

Vermin Supreme on Ponynomics

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Joining me today is Vermin Supreme. You might know Vermin as the satirical presidential candidate from the last few election cycles who ran on a platform of free ponies, or you might just know him as that guy with a boot on his head. But this year, he’s running a slightly different campaign. Rather than his usual dog and free pony show, he’s seriously promoting left libertarian and anarchist ideas such as mutual aid and non-domination to the largely right libertarian audience in the LP.

Jason Lee Byas on Methodological Anarchism

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Joining me today is Jason Lee Byas. Jason is a fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society. His academic work focuses on punishment (and its alternatives), rights theory, and justice beyond the state. Today, we discussed some recent work he’s been doing on “methodological anarchist” approaches to political philosophy as well as the nature of violence and its relation to a theory of just property rights and distributive justice.

Joel Williamson on Pragmatic Anarchism

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Joining me today is Joel Williamson of Non-Serviam media. Joel is an individualist anarchist from Texas who has been involved in different activist projects over the years. His activism has most recently been focused on Non Serviam Media, which is a small collective dedicated to exploring the world of anarchist and anti-authoritarian ideas through audio and video production.

Roderick Long on Class Theory

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Joining me today is Roderick Long. Dr. Long is a professor of philosophy at Auburn University. He is a founding member of the Alliance of the Libertarian Left, an original founding member of C4SS, and senior fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society. Today’s discussion centers around Long’s work on libertarian class theory, as well as the normative concerns that rise out of such a theory on balancing distributive and relational justice concerns with individual liberty.

Anthony Di Franco on Counter Culture Labs

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Joining me today is Anthony Di Franco. Anthony works at the intersections of complex adaptive systems and computing. He is a co-founder and board member of Counter Culture Labs, where he founded the Open Insulin project, an effort to develop open technology for insulin production at microbrewery scale and organize patient-led cooperatives to manufacture it.

Jahed Momand on Epistemological Anarchism

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This month, we bring you a special episode from the Please Try This at Home transhumanism conference. In this episode, Alex McHugh interviews Jahed Momand on autonomous medicine. Jahed is interested in epistemological anarchism and writes long-form essays at againstutopia.com. We get into the problems caused by hierarchy in scientific discovery, and the limitations placed on treatment options for mental health issues. Jahed’s research focuses on depression, but we also dig into other mental health issues.

Nathan Goodman on the Provision of Public Goods and Welfare in a Stateless Society

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Today, Nathan Goodman is joining Mutual Exchange Radio to discuss the provision of public goods and welfare in a stateless society. Nathan is a PhD student in economics at George Mason University. Our discussion centers around his research on why national defense might not always be a public good and how the Mormon church has found ways around game theoretic problems that arise in mutual aid.

William Gillis on Positive and Negative Liberty

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Joining me today is Will Gillis. Will is the director of the Center and writes regularly on the egalitarian potential of markets. His writing can be found on his website, humaniterations.net, as well as on C4SS.org.