The 2024 (Eighteenth) Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society will be held from Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024 (arrivals) to Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024 (departures), in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess. Those interested in attending future meetings should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership),
The initial list of speakers and topics for the 2024 Annual Meeting follows: [continue reading…]
Hans-Hermann Hoppe im Gespraech: Über Denkverbote und andere Merkwürdigkeiten.
Kürzlich besuchte mich im Auftrag von SERVUS TV ein Kamerateam in Bodrum, um mit mir ein Gespraech zum Thema Denkverbote aufzuzeichnen, das anschliessend im Rahmen der Sendereihe PRAGMATICUS Verwendung finden sollte. Tatsaechlich wurden in der Sendung vom 3. Dezember 2023 dann auch knapp 5 Minuten des Videomaterials von insgesamt etwa einer Stunde ausgestrahlt. Nicht zuletzt aufgrund der Qualitaet des Videos erschien es mir freilich geradezu schaendlich, der Öffentlichkeit den gesamten Rest vorzuenthalten. Hier darum das ganze Gespraech im Original. [continue reading…]
A friend alerted me to this excellent 10-part lecture series by Professors Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Guido Hülsmann, presented in Denmark in 2005, which may be of interest to our members and others.
Breaking up with a person you have known for more than thirty years, with whom you have participated in countless conferences and co-authored a couple of articles, even if only in the somewhat distant past, is nothing done lightly. It is even harder, if one shares with this person a common standing as a public intellectual and both our names are mentioned frequently in one breath as prominent students of the same teacher, Murray N. Rothbard, and as leading intellectual lights of the modern libertarian movement founded by Rothbard.
But then: in this position, it becomes near-imperative to always stay on guard and take notice if a person closely associated with your own name goes astray and falls into serious error, and you may be compelled to publicly distance and dis-associate yourself from this person in order to protect your own personal and intellectual reputation (along with Rothbard’s and that of the entire libertarian intellectual edifice). Such is the case with Walter Block.
Read more at Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “An Open Letter to Walter E. Block,” LewRockwell.com (Jan. 31, 2024). There are already Portuguese and Spanish translations available. Also published as “An Open Letter to Walter E. Block,” Mises Wire (Feb. 1, 2024).
For related material, see Kinsella, Ammous vs. Block on Israel.
Longtime PFS member Doug French (see his various articles about previous PFS meetings here) has updated and expanded his work Early Speculative Bubbles & Increases In The Supply of Money. It should be available in early March. From the Amazon description:
Dive into the Untold Story of Historical Bubbles: Discover the Monetary Secrets Behind World’s Greatest Economic Mysteries.
For the discerning reader with a passion for economic history, Early Speculative Bubbles & Increases In The Supply of Money: 4th Expanded Edition opens the vault to the past’s most captivating financial enigmas. Douglas E. French masterfully charts a course through history’s turbulent monetary waters, revealing the underlying currents that drove the world’s most talked-about economic bubbles. [continue reading…]
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 269.
This panel discusssion is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Doug French (USA), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Josef Šíma (Czech Republic), Olivier Richard (Switzerland), Stephan Kinsella (USA), “Discussion, Q&A.”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 268.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey): “On Centralization, Secession and the Problem of Self-Defense.”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 266.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Doug French (USA): “The Financial Newsletter Racket”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 265.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Stephan Kinsella (USA), “There Ain’t No Intellectual Property: The Personal Story of a Discovery” (also podcast as KOL420).
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 264.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Olivier Richard (Switzerland): “Is Mankind Getting Dumber? Some Empirical Evidence.”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 263.
This panel discussion is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Thorsten Polleit (Germany), David Dürr (Switzerland), Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria),Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France), “Discussion, Q&A.”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 262.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), “Competition as a Cover-Up Procedure.”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 261.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
David Dürr (Switzerland): “Swiss Confederation 2023: The Last 25 Years Ahead.”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 260.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France): “Private Philanthropy As a Competitor of the Welfare State.”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 259.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Thorsten Polleit (Germany): “The Economics of The “Great Reset”: Getting To The Truth.” Dr. Polleit has also posted his own audio as well as the text of his speech (soundcloud; text).
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 258.
This panel discussion is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Alessandro Fusillo (Italy), Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England/France), “Discussion, Q&A.”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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As noted here, the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society will be held from Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024 (arrivals) to Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024 (departures), in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess.
Those interested in attending should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership),
Speakers and topics for previous Annual Meetings may be found here.
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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
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