Professor Hoppe was previously interviewed on Australian Broadcasting Corp. Radio, on the topic “Anarcho-capitalist libertarianism: What is it?” (approx. 25 minutes). It was aired on Jan. 23, 2012; audio is available here. As described on the ABC site, “What is anarcho-capitalist libertarianism? Hans Herman Hoppe explains the idea behind it and why it’s a very different and quite radical way to think about government, society and the economy.”

Paul Vahur has organized selected pictures from the 2011 meeting; they can be seen at https://plus.google.com/photos/102370610460720295055/albums . The relevant albums are 5 topmost, names starting with PFS2011.

Below is the proposed list of speakers and topics for the upcoming Seventh Annual Meeting of the PFS, which will be held in Bodrum, Turkey at the Hotel Karia Princess, from Thursday September 27 through Monday October 1, 2012. Those interested in attending should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Grözinger, Administrative Secretary, regarding conditions, availability, and requirements.

Property and Freedom Society

7^th Annual Meeting

September 27 – October 2, 2012

Bodrum, Turkey

Karia Princess Hotel

Speakers & Topics

Philosophy and Law

• Hans-HermannHoppe: The Nature of Man. Does Any Such Thing Exist?
• StephanKinsella: The Market for Law

Economics

• Guido Huelsmann: The Winners and Losers of a Monetary Policy
• Thorsten Polleit: What Do Bankers Know about Money and Banking?
• Walter Block: The Economics of Discrimination
• Jeffrey Tucker: One Million Tiny Miseries: Government Policy in our Time

Literature and Literary Criticism

• Sean Gabb: On Literature and Liberty
• Benjamin Marks: On H. L. Mencken as a Libertarian Model (and some Romantic Libertarian Delusions)

History

• Karl-Peter Schwarz: Between Restitution and Re-Expropriation: Desocialization in Eastern Europe
• Norman Stone: Comparative History: Turkey and Spain
• Tom DiLorenzo: The Myth of American Exceptionalism

Society and Politics

• Anthony Daniels (Dalrymple) : The “Ultimate Freedom:” Choice without Consequences
• Paul Gottfried: On Fascism and the Anti-Fascism Industry
• Rahim Taghizadegan: Understanding Iran and the Iranians
• Richard Lynn: Why are the Jews so Smart?

From my post at The Libertarian Standard:

Last year I presented four Mises Academy Mises Academy courses:

• “Rethinking Intellectual Property” (a reprise of one taught previously in 2010);
• “Libertarian Legal Theory”;
• “Libertarian Controversies”; and
• “The Social Theory of Hoppe“.

The audio and slides for the first three courses listed can be found in those links; those for the Hoppe course are appended below. The Hoppe course is discussed in my article “Read Hoppe, Then Nothing Is the Same,” translated into Spanish as “Tras leer a Hoppe, nada es lo mismo“; see also Danny Sanchez’s post Online Hoppe Course Starts Tomorrow. I enjoyed all four courses but my favorite was the Hoppe course. Hoppe has been the biggest intellectual influence of my life, as I detail in “How I Became A Libertarian” (published as “Being a Libertarian” in I Chose Liberty: Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians). I agree with Sanchez that “Hans-Hermann Hoppe is the most profound social theorist writing today.” This is one reason I worked with the brilliant Austro-libertarian theorist, and one of my best friends, Jörg Guido Hülsmann, and one of the greatest guys in the world, to produce the well-received and well-deserved festschrift, Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Mises Institute, 2009).

The experience of teaching the Mises Academy classes was amazing and gratifying, as I noted in my article “Teaching an Online Mises Academy Course.” This and similar technology and Internet-enabled models are obviously the wave of the educational future. The students received an in-depth, specialized and personalized treatment of topics of interest to them, with tests and teacher and fellow student interaction, for a very reasonable price, and judging by their comments and evaluations, they were very satisfied with the courses and this online model. For example, for the Hoppe course, as noted in A Happy Hoppean Student, student Cam Rea wrote, about the first lecture of the course:

Move over Chuck Norris, Hans-Hermann Hoppe is in town! The introduction to “The Social Theory of Hoppe” was extremely thorough. I, a relative newcomer to the Hoppean idea, was impressed by Stephan Kinsella’s introduction to the theory. Mr. Kinsella hit upon all of those who came before Hoppe, and how each built upon another over the past two centuries. In other words, as Isaac Newton stated, “If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Hoppe is the result thus far of those who came before him in the ideals of Austrian Economics and libertarian principles. Nevertheless, Hoppe takes it much further as in the Misesian concept of human action and the science of “praxeology”, from which all actions branch in life.

Overall, the class was extremely enjoyable, the questions concrete, and the answer provided by Mr. Kinsella clear and precise. Like many others in the class, I look forward to more. So tune in next Monday at 7pm EDT. Same Hoppe-time, same Hoppe-channel!

There were also rave reviews given by students of the other courses.

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Papinian (Aemilius Papinianus), famous Roman jurist, who wrote, ""It is easier to commit murder than to justify it.” when he refused to come up with an argument justifying a murder, and was himself put to death.

From my Libertarian Standard post:

Earlier this year I presented a 6 week Mises Academy course, “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society,” discussed in my Mises Daily article “Introduction to Libertarian Legal Theory.”¹ This course followed on the heels of my previous Mises Academy course, “Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics” (audio and slides), about which one student wrote me at the completion of the course,

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1. See also Danny Sanchez’s post Study Libertarian Legal Theory Online with Stephan Kinsella.

From my Libertarian Standard post:

At the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society (May 27-29, 2011), I delivered a speech entitled “Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions.” The video is here, and streamed below. It engendered a good deal of discussion and interest, and I could only touch on a small number of the topics I had assembled over the years, so later in the year, I conducted a 5 week Mises Academy course, “Libertarian Controversies” (Mondays, Sept. 19-Oct. 23, 2011), to cover these and related topics in greater depth. (The course is discussed in my Mises Daily article “Libertarian Controversies.”) The audio and slides for the 5 lectures of the course are provided below, following the PFS lecture.

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Photos from the 2011 PFS Annual Meeting are available here, to-wit:

• PFS2011 Cocktail Reception (26.05.2011)
• PFS2011 first day (27.05.2011)
• PFS2011 Second Day (28.05.2011)

Professor Hoppe was the keynote speaker at the recent, very successful Australian Mises Seminar, 25-26th November, 2011, held in a private club in the Sydney CBD. Various posts about the event, and the videos released to date (which are in 1080p HD), are linked below.

Some more reports on the seminar and related posts:

• Hoppe’s Inarticulate Australian Critics: The Hon Dr Peter Phelps, Dr Steven Kates and James Paterson, by Benjamin Marks;
• The Mises Seminar was conducted by Aussienomics, an Austrian-Australian group, Economics.org.au, Liberty Australia, and the Macquare University Libertarian League;
• The Seminar Guide at http://www.mises.org.au/programme.pdf, or here, a beautifully produced, 108-page programme, full of nice pictures and illustrations of Mises, Rothbard, and others, inspiring quotes, and an overview of the seminar. The main reason for its length is that it contains “Pre-Seminar Reading” (A Primer on Austrian Economics by Jonathan M. Finegold Catalan; the second chapter of Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s book Economic Science and the Austrian Method, on On Praxeology and the Praxeological Foundation of Epistemology; Anatomy of the State by Murray N. Rothbard; and What Libertarianism Is by Stephan Kinsella);
• A podcast by some of the organizers discussing the Seminar may be found here;
• The Mises Seminar, from Thoughts on Freedom, Australian Libertarian Society Blog;
• Where There’s Smoke, There’s Libertarians, Nickolai Hubble, The Daily Reckoning–Australia;
• My Journey to Anarchy: From political and economic agnostic to anarchocapitalist, Neville Kennard.

The two videos available so far are embedded below:

Hoppe in Sydney 2011: “The State – The Errors of Classical Liberalism”

Hoppe in Sydney 2011: “Society Without State – Private Law Society”

Hoppe in Sydney 2011 – “Politics, Money and Banking”

Dr Steven Kates on the Classical School vs the Austrian School, includes responses from Hoppe

From Radio Free Market (also noted by Andy Duncan in his blog post Radio Free Market World Report: The End of the Mega States?). See also Skaskiw: Is the United States Too Big to Succeed?, full of interesting Hoppean insights comparing the situation in the US to that in Europe. Roman’s previous Mises Daily article, The Military Mentality, was based on his speech “‘Fighting for Freedom’ in Afghanistan: Unintended Consquences and Military Mentality. A Combat Soldier’s Report,” delivered at the PFS 2011 Annual Meeting (video). Here’s the RFM post:

* The End of the Mega States? * with Roman Skaskiw and Andy Duncan

Professor Hoppe spoke at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies on November 9, 2011. The four videos (two lectures with Q & A, one interview, and one seminar with discussion) are below:

From the blog post at Mises.ro: Video: Colocviu despre Teoria socialismului ?i a capitalismului cu Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Theory of Socialism and Capitalism after 20 years. A Colloquium with the Author from Mises Romania on Vimeo.

The author Hans-Hermann Hoppe, the translator Emanuel-Mihail Socaciu, and the former president of the Mises Institute, Dan Cristian Com?nescu, comment on the significance and ideas of “A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism”, and the legacy of the private Mises Seminar in Bucharest. The comments are followed by questions from the audience.

At the invitation of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Romania, on November 8-11, 2011, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe visited Bucharest for a series of events celebrating 130 years since the birth of Ludwig von Mises and 10 years since the foundation of the Romanian Mises Institute.

Videos below:

Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Theory of Socialism and Capitalism after 20 years. A Colloquium with the Author

Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Theory of Socialism and Capitalism after 20 years. A Colloquium with the Author from Mises Romania on Vimeo.

On Politics, Money, and Banking

On Politics, Money, and Banking (Hans-Hermann Hoppe) from Mises Romania on Vimeo.

Entrepreneurship with Fiat Property and Fiat Money

History, Natural Elites, and State Elites. An Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans-Hermann Hoppe gives a speech on Entrepreneurship with Fiat Property and Fiat Money in the Aula Magna of the Romanian-American University in Bucharest, and answers questions from the audience.

At the invitation of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Romania, on November 8-11, 2011, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe visited Bucharest for a series of events celebrating 130 years since the birth of Ludwig von Mises and 10 years since the foundation of the Romanian Mises Institute.

History, Natural Elites, and State Elites. An Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe from Mises Romania on Vimeo.

Entrepreneurship with Fiat Property and Fiat Money (Hans-Hermann Hoppe) from Mises Romania on Vimeo.

PFS member Roman Skaskiw has an interesting article up on Mises Daily today: Is the United States Too Big to Succeed?, full of interesting Hoppean insights comparing the situation in the US to that in Europe.

Roman’s previous Mises Daily article, The Military Mentality, was based on his speech “‘Fighting for Freedom’ in Afghanistan: Unintended Consquences and Military Mentality. A Combat Soldier’s Report,” delivered at the PFS 2011 Annual Meeting (video).

There is a very interesting five part interview (a sixth part is forthcoming), Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part V – Dark Realities (see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4). It’s by Andrew Dittmer, who recently finished his PhD in mathematics at Harvard. Dittmer extensively quotes Hoppe’s writing from his Democracy book in this interview.

Update: Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part VI – Certainty.

The video of my Moscow IP speech is now available on YouTube, as I noted at C4SIF.org:

“Why ‘Intellectual Property’ is not Genuine Property,” Adam Smith Forum, Moscow

by Stephan Kinsella on November 15, 2011

As I noted in a previous post, the 3^rd Adam Smith Forum was held earlier this month (Nov. 12, 2011) in Moscow. This event was organized by the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, the Libertarian Party of Russia, and others. The Chairman of the ASF Steering Committee was economist Pavel Usanov, head of the Hayek Institute for Economy and Law, and Andrey Shal’nev, head of the federal committee of the Libertarian Party of Russia, was its co-chairman. I was invited to speak but could not attend in person, so my 47-minute speech “Why Intellectual Property is not Genuine Property” was presented remotely, with Russian subtitles. It is below, along with the original version and the English transcript plus the Russian translation, which was prepared by Maxim Tulenin, head of the Moscow branch of the Libertarian Party of Russia.

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Professor Hoppe’s article, Why Mises (and not Hayek)?, was published in Mises Daily today. It is based on a speech delivered at the Mises Institute Supporters meeting, September 19-23, 2011, Vienna, Austria.

Professor Hoppe taught five classes at the Mises U 2011 in Auburn, Alabama, this past July, including his great speech The Science of Human Action, which kicked off Mises U (his other Mises U 2011 lectures are here). In this speech, Professor Hoppe discusses his intellectual biography and relationship with Rothbard, as well as the Austrian approach and methodology. While he was in town, Jeff Tucker conducted a fascinating interview with him (see video below). In this wide-ranging interview, Professor Hoppe discusses in more detail the history of his intellectual odyssey from leftist to Misesian-Rothbardian, his various books, various topics such as German reintegration, the centralizing effects of constitutions (including the US Constitution and EU), why states with more liberal economies are more imperialist, the interesting and heretofore undisclosed story of exactly how communist policies in East Germany led him to discover Mises, and more.

As announced on B.K. Marcus’s post at the Mises blog today (see below), the Hoppe festschrift that Guido Hülsmann and I edited, Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Mises Institute, 2009), which was already available in PDF and print, is now available in a free epub format as well. Kindle and other ebook formats should be available soon. The festschrift was presented to Professor Hoppe, just a month or so before his 60th birthday, at a private ceremony on July 29, 2009, in Auburn, AL during Mises University 2009 (see Hoppe Festschrift Published). Pictures from the ceremony are embedded below.

Hoppe’s Festschrift now in ePub

Property, Freedom, and Society: Marzipan in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Also, as I noted in Book Review of Hoppe Festschrift, David Howden wrote an excellent review of the festschrift in New Perspectives on Political Economy. And, as I noted in that post, and in Bodrum Days and Nights: The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: A Partial Report, as a piece of Festschrift trivia: at the recent Property and Freedom Society conference in Bodrum, Turkey, a guest presented a festschrift-cake he had had made in Estonia, entitled “Property, Freedom, and Society: Marzipan in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe,” which was served as part of the dessert at the closing banquet.

Reposted from Andy Duncan’s blog, The God that Failed:

Principato di Filettino: A step on the road to Hoppe World?

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Andy Duncan

In the magnificent Peter Sellers film, The Mouse That Roared, the strangely English-speaking Duchy of Grand Fenwick, a tiny nation between France and Switzerland, defeats the United States in a rather bizarre nuclear stand-off.

Will another such Duchy, the tiny Italian town of Filettino, similarly defeat the horrible coerced agglomeration known as Italy, inside the even more horrible coerced agglomeration known as the European Union?

We can but hope.

For Filettino has declared its independence from Rome, in a bid to emulate San Marino, Monaco, the Vatican City, and Andorra (and I suppose the Cantons of Switzerland itself, when they shook off the First Reich of the mass murderer Charlemagne, and his rotten Holy Roman Empire).

Obviously, we will see if Filettino’s independence lasts, or if it is just another political stunt, but it is an interesting event to witness nevertheless. For when in the future we look back from ‘Hoppe World’ and work out how we got there, historians will regard such incidents as being symptomatic of a wider terminal malaise of coerced collectivism:

• Italian town Filettino declares independence

Go Filettino!

Interviu cu Hans-Hermann Hoppe despre taxare, the Romanian translation of Professor Hoppe’s Philosophie Magazine Interview on Taxation, has just been posted on the Mises Romania site. It has also been translated into several other languages.

In this humorous interview parody, Exclusive Oliver Marc Hartwich Interview on Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Benjamin Marks skewers the confused criticism of Professor Hoppe’s ideas by Oliver Marc Hartwich.