Saifedean Ammous has published his novel The Gold Standard: An Alternative History of the Twentieth Century.
Grok analysis of this clever novel (with some spoilers so beware). The book reminds me of Henry Hazlitt’s underappreciated but great novel Time Will Run Back, which uses a future dystopia to illustrate the calculation problem. [continue reading…]
Another recent publication by long-time PFS member Saifedean Ammous, Property Rights: The Root Cause of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Saifedean Substack (Nov 10, 2025). This paper was the basis of his talk of the same name presented at the PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey). It will be podcast later on the Property and Freedom Podcast; the Youtube video is below, along with the slides. It was also podcast at The Bitcoin Standard Podcast, Ep. 299: “In this lecture delivered at the Property and Freedom Society, Saifedean explains why the root cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the denial of property rights. Religious and racial conflict are not destined in Palestine; they are historically rare occurrences, but this system of property rights would create violent conflict anywhere.”
It was also discussed in the panel “Fusillo, Ammous, Hoppe, Gabb, DiLorenzo, Open Discussion, Q&A,” also to be podcast later; video below.
Recent publications by PFS members: Jozef Martiniak, “DeLiecht – Decentralized Liechtensteins,” AusEkon (27 July 2025). Grok summary:
DeLiecht envisions a decentralized governance model inspired by economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s praise for micro-states like Liechtenstein, where self-governing administrative units emerge spontaneously through Bitcoin-funded contributions linked to geographic residency, sidestepping rigid national borders to achieve optimal scales of neutrality and minimize war risks. Participants generate open-source wallets using SHA-256 hashes of city names and GPS coordinates (e.g., New York’s yielding a specific address), funding them with location-verified satoshi payments that build value amid fiat currency collapse; spending requires multisig consensus with 51% approval, enhanced by tenure-based voting power, reputation incentives, family continuity, and neighbor approvals to promote cooperation and deter disputes. The system unfolds in phases—from early adopters in unstable regions to institutional involvement—potentially enabling a city like New York, with 4.5 million residents contributing 1,000 sats monthly, to fully transition by 2040 as Bitcoin appreciates and fiat taxes wane. Ultimately, DeLiecht leverages Bitcoin’s bottom-up ethos via the “location principle,” rendering invasions obsolete since value is blockchain-secured, fostering peaceful self-rule for minorities, and allowing consensual expansions or mergers to create a network of resilient, Liechtenstein-like enclaves.
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 297.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Stephan Kinsella (USA): “Where The Common Law Goes Wrong.” Also podcast at KOL474 | Where The Common Law Goes Wrong (PFS 2025), which contains the transcript and shownotes. See also Sebastian Wang, “Stephan Kinsella on the Common Law: Lessons from Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 19, 2025).
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist.
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Videos for the PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey) have now been uploaded to the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist. This includes the speeches and panel discussions as well as a few extras.
As in previous years, audio versions of each presentation will also be released weekly on the Property and Freedom Podcast, each Monday, which already started with PFP295 | Gülçin Imre Hoppe & Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Welcome and Introductions (PFS 2025) on Nov. 1, 2025.
Photos from the 2025 Meeting may be found at: [continue reading…]
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 296.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Sean Gabb (England): Roman Law and Contractual Slavery [Sebastian Wang, “Roman Slavery: Horror and Paradox – Sean Gabb in Bodrum,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 20, 2025)] Transcript and shownotes below.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 295.
These introductory remarks are from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Gülçin Imre Hoppe (Turkey) & Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey): Welcome and Introductions. Transcript and shownotes below. [continue reading…]
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In the azure seaside town of Bodrum, Turkey, the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society unfolded as a distinctive gathering of radical thinkers, economists, historians and libertarian intellectuals. Against the leafy gardens and poolside calm of the Hotel Karia Princess, participants came together for five days of lectures, informal conversations and excursions, blending serious scholarship with relaxed settings.
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Guest post by Martín Cabrera y Marisa Jarquin, adapted from “First Guatemalans at the PFS,” Guate Libre (Oct. 15, 2025) (Spanish version)
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Members of Guate Libre at the PFS
Martín Cabrera y Marisa Jarquin
The Property and Freedom Society is an organization founded in 2006 by the libertarian philosopher and Austrian School economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Every year, Hans Hoppe and his wife Gulçin Imre Hoppe are the excellent hosts of a meeting held at the Hotel Karia Princess in Bodrum, Turkey. This event, highly restrictive and somewhat small, has an enormous impact, and its importance surpasses that of any other event of its kind, as it brings together the best and most radical Austro-libertarians from around the world. In fact, it is precisely because the event is closed that it maintains its essence, and it is thanks to its uncompromising radicalism (frequently criticized by those who do not understand the ideas, for whom these are subsidiary to their economic and political interests) that long-term victory is possible. An organization as radical and uncompromising as this is indispensable in a context of constant threats posed to the libertarian movement by classical liberal groups and left-libertarians.
From HansHoppe.com:
Professor Hoppe’s monograph Kritik der kausalwissenschaftlichen Sozialforschung: Untersuchungen zur Grundlegung von Soziologie und Ökonomie [Critique of Causal Scientific Social Research: Studies on the Foundation of Sociology and Economics] (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1983) has been translated into English by Andreas Tank. This monograph based is the published version of his “Habilitation” thesis, in Sociology and Economics, 1981, from the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main.
Long time PFS member Frank Van Dun‘s work Het Fundamenteel Rechtsbeginsel (originally published 1983 and 2008)1 has been translated into English as The Fundamental Principle of Right/Law: An Essay on the Foundations of Right/Law, trans. Rembert Moesick (pdf). (Grok suggests the following title: The Fundamental Principle of Right: Foundations of Justice and Law, but we are going with the translator’s title for now.)2 It may be published more formally later and a list of referenced works by author is being prepared by the translator, which I will upload when it is available. For now, enjoy. [continue reading…]
From StephanKinsella.com:
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Alessandro Fusillo recently appeared on LA NOSTRA LIBERTÀ [OUR FREEDOM] – FUSILLO live – Puntata 156 (01-10-2025).
A summary and translation of the transcript are provided below. [continue reading…]
Sebastian Wang has written an excellent review of his experience at the PFS 2025 Annual Meeting: “Bodrum 2025: Reflections on a Journey,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 24, 2025). See also other Press & Offsite Material.
For other pieces by Wang summarizing many of the talks from PFS 2025, see PFS 2025 Annual Meeting—Speakers and Topics.
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From StephanKinsella.com:
I’m pleased to announce the results of a project I’ve been working on with other libertarians for some time: The Universal Principles of Liberty (finalized and published Aug. 14, 2025).
I’d like to explain here how this came about.
I’ve been a libertarian since I was in high school and increasingly involved over the years learning about liberty and have devoted a lot of time to developing libertarian ideas, by my speaking and writing,1 and even in various forms of activism. Yes, despite my regular criticisms of activists and activism, I of course have participated in activism of various types—debating with family and friends and others, voting, participating in various groups; joining the Libertarian Party years ago and now serving on its Judicial Committee.2
From HansHoppe.com:
Resignation from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Germany
On 13 July 2025, Prof. Dr. Rolf W. Puster, Prof. Dr. Jörg Guido Hülsmann and Prof. Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe declared their resignation from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Germany. Only two of the original five members remain on that Board.
Below, Puster, Hülsmann and Hoppe explain the reasons for their resignation.
Longtime PFS speaker1 Italian legal scholar Alessandro Fusillo (@AlessandroFusi9) appeared on the youtube show below, El Niño Speaks, with very interesting comments about Italy’s Populist Right and also touching on Javier Milei near the end.
The Youtube transcript as cleaned up by Grok is below, as well as a summary. Note Professor Hoppe and others at PFS have also been critical of Milei or debated his performance.2 [continue reading…]
As noted here, the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society was held from Thursday, September 18, 2025 to Tuesday, September 23, 2025, in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess.
Those interested in attending future meetings should contact Mr. Thomas Jacob ([email protected]) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements.
Speakers and topics for previous Annual Meetings may be found here.
PFS Members/Attendees may sign up to the PFS-Announce Google Group or email Stephan Kinsella ([email protected]).
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“Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.” — Frédéric Bastiat
“Because the concept of property, for instance, is so basic that everyone seems to have some immediate understanding of it, most people never think about it carefully and can, as a consequence, produce at best a very vague definition. But starting from imprecisely stated or assumed definitions and building a complex network of thought upon them can lead only to intellectual disaster. For the original imprecisions and loopholes will then pervade and distort everything derived from them. To avoid this, the concept of property must first be clarified.” —Hans-Hermann Hoppe, TSC, ch. 2
The Property and Freedom Society (PFS; Facebook) stands for an uncompromising intellectual radicalism: for justly acquired private property, freedom of contract, freedom of association—which logically implies the right to not associate with, or to discriminate against—anyone in one's personal and business relations—and unconditional free trade. It condemns imperialism and militarism and their fomenters, and champions peace. It rejects positivism, relativism, and egalitarianism in any form, whether of "outcome" or "opportunity," and it has an outspoken distaste for politics and politicians. As such it seeks to avoid any association with the policies and proponents of interventionism, which Ludwig von Mises identified in 1946 as the fatal flaw in the plan of the many earlier and contemporary attempts by intellectuals alarmed by the rising tide of socialism and totalitarianism to found an anti-socialist ideological movement. Mises wrote: "What these frightened intellectuals did not comprehend was that all those measures of government interference with business which they advocated are abortive. ... There is no middle way. Either the consumers are supreme or the government."
(A more complete statement of our Principles can be found here.)
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