014 - Jan Mošovský: Tales of Liberty & Free City Vulnerabilities

In part 4 of our series of conversations recorded in Prague I am talking with Jan Mošovský. Jan is the Director of Research at the Liberalni Institute, a Czech think tank championing the ideas of classical liberalism. He is also the European programs Manager at Students for Liberty, the largest libertarian students organisation in the world. I begin this conversation by asking Jan about something he wrote in an article… "Every good story is ultimately libertarian in nature" An interesting observation that’s leads us into an in-depth discussion on Libertarianism, liberalism and governance models. Jan has reservations about the viability of the Free Cities model and we discuss where he sees vulnerabilities and potential alternatives. Listening back to our conversation I feel that I should add a small addendum to my side of the dialogue for the point at which we were discussing the possibility of the State coming into a Free City and shutting it down. Since our conversation I have got further clarification from Prospera about the legal treaties in place to mitigate this. There are in fact two, the first being the [Central American Dominican Republic Free Trade agreement](//Central American Dominican Republic Free Trade agreement) in which the US is a signatory. Within this treaty is a key clause that guarantees that the property of foreign investors will not be expropriated by another country. This affects Prospera since it has several US investors. The second treaty is the Honduras Kuwait Treaty in which there are similar clauses that would impact investments made by Kuwaiti nationals. TWITTER: Jan Mošovský: https://twitter.com/JanMosovsky Timothy Allen: https://twitter.com/MrTimothyAllen Free Cities Foundation: https://twitter.com/freecitiesfound WEBSITES: Students for Liberty: https://studentsforliberty.org/ Free Cities Foundation: https://free-cities.org/