New Lecture on Richard Epstein’s Simple Rules for a Complex World

Today we have released the fourth lecture in our Exploring Liberty series. Richard Epstein, the author of Simple Rules for a Complex World, gives a quick outline of the six conditions that he says provide the groundwork for the emergence of a civilized society: individual autonomy, first possession/private property, contracts, tort, taxation, and eminent domain. This lecture is a great primer on how legal orders have emerged to form the complex and intricate web of relationships we know today as modern civilization.