Law, Customs, and Culture
A property-centered legal order encompasses a broad variety of enforceable crimes. As expected, all of them are oriented toward the integrity of private property. The basic principles of natural law, do all you have agreed to do and do not encroach upon other persons or their property, provide the basis for contract and criminal law. Both are rooted in the integrity of property and its conflict-free exchange. [continue reading…]
PFS recently finished podcasting all 11 lectures from Hoppe and Hulsmann’s 2005 Copenhagen Institute lectures on Austrian economics at the Property and Freedom Podcast [see Hoppe University: Hoppe and Hülsmann, Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics, Copenhagen Institute (2005); PFP344 | Lecture 1: Hoppe and Hülsmann, Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics, Copenhagen Institute (2005)].
We plan to podcast soon the 10 lectures in Dr. Hoppe’s 2004 lecture series Economy, Society, and History: A Seminar with Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2004) (14.8 hours total), the edited transcripts of which resulted in his book Economy, Society, and History (2021). Stay tuned.
Related: A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline (Mises 2015) [continue reading…]
The names of the Property and Freedom Society (PFS) and the Association for Law, Property, and Society (ALPS) might sound alike but as Grok confirms, yeah no. I mean just look at the latest article in its journal, Andrea McArdle, “Addressing the Challenges of Housing Insecurity in Urban Native America: Centering Affordability and Indigenous Values in Off-Reservation Housing,” Journal of Law, Property, and Society 10 (April 2026): 1–33. Typical mainstream statist drek. The piece operates entirely inside the conventional progressive academic register of property scholarship: historical injustice + equity framing + affordable housing policy + culturally tailored public/nonprofit interventions.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 354.
On Sept. 17–18, 2005, Professors Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Guido Hülsmann presented a two-day 11-lecture series, “Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics,” in Klampenborg (just north of Copenhagen, Denmark), under the auspices of the Copenhagen Institute and Liberator. Program (local, and at right). See also Copenhagen Institute hosts Hoppe and Hülsmann, Mises Economics Blog (Sept. 1, 2005).
The entire series runs for roughly 10–12 hours and are collected on a PFS Playlist.1 For further information see: Hoppe University: Hoppe and Hülsmann, Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics, Copenhagen Institute (2005).
This episode: Lecture 11: Law and Economics (Hoppe). [continue reading…]
Imagine a scenario for dealing with the Epstein scandal under a private property legal order. Such a system does not preclude the existence of the United States as a compound republic, although it does require a radical reinterpretation of the political order operating through the Constitution. First, the United States is a federation of political entities, each one an independent republic, cooperating for mutual protection and commerce according to the stipulations of a written contract. The general government can only act on the limited authorities delegated to it via the contract, while the member states retain sovereignty within their geographic territories, except for those things prohibited to them by the federal operating charter.
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 496.
Matt Sands of the Nations of Sanity project and I discuss the possible interrelationship between his project and my The Universal Principles of Liberty. Recorded Aug. 14, 2026.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 353.
On Sept. 17–18, 2005, Professors Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Guido Hülsmann presented a two-day 11-lecture series, “Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics,” in Klampenborg (just north of Copenhagen, Denmark), under the auspices of the Copenhagen Institute and Liberator. Program (local, and at right). See also Copenhagen Institute hosts Hoppe and Hülsmann, Mises Economics Blog (Sept. 1, 2005).
The entire series runs for roughly 10–12 hours and are collected on a PFS Playlist.1 For further information see: Hoppe University: Hoppe and Hülsmann, Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics, Copenhagen Institute (2005).
This episode: Lecture 10: Welfare Economics (Hülsmann). [continue reading…]
In 2009, the Mises Institute published Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a project Guido Hülsmann and and Stephan Kinsella spearheaded to honor Hans Hoppe on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Only a few of the pieces were published independently; we are posting them here in this Bookstream.
The first entry was republished at Property, Freedom, and Society Bookstream: Introduction, Hülsmann and Kinsella. Links to the remaining chapters may be found at the book’s landing page here, which will be updated as the book is streamed here. Here’s the next entry. [continue reading…]
An interview with Jeff Deist on the Scott Horton Show; and see Claudio Grass’s commentary.
David Friedman’s recent Made in Ancapia interview has this clip:
Me encanta
David Friedman sobre Javier Milei:
✒️| “Sería bueno para el libertarismo si resulta que tener un presidente libertario que empuja las ideas de la libertad hace a un país rico. (…) Le deseo suerte.” pic.twitter.com/h0CrzLmdlP
— Made in Ancapia (@MadeInAncapia) March 27, 2026
From Libertarian Alliance (UK):
Paul Craig Roberts has written another of his gloomy essays about artificial intelligence and the digital age. There is much in it that deserves agreement. Wikipedia is politically biased. Governments and large corporations increasingly try to control what people read and think. Digital information can disappear more easily than printed books locked away in forgotten libraries. These are genuine concerns, and intelligent people ought to discuss them seriously.
What disappoints me is what Roberts builds on these observations. Instead of criticising the abuse of technology, he condemns the technology itself. This is a familiar mistake. Every great technological advance has produced a class of intelligent men who noticed its defects and confidently predicted disaster. Their predictions have almost always been wrong. [continue reading…]
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Diversity German Style: Berlin Pool Advertised ‘Black Only’ Swimming Hours: “A taxpayer-funded swimming pool in Berlin, originally pitched as a multicultural, open-to-all space, almost immediately announced segregated, black-only swim sessions.”
H/t Tom DiLorenzo
‘Arabs… Chechens’: German Swimming Baths Terrorised by ‘Migration Background’ Menhttps://t.co/ZzdHVJewVY
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 15, 2023
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 352.
On Sept. 17–18, 2005, Professors Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Guido Hülsmann presented a two-day 11-lecture series, “Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics,” in Klampenborg (just north of Copenhagen, Denmark), under the auspices of the Copenhagen Institute and Liberator. Program (local, and at right). See also Copenhagen Institute hosts Hoppe and Hülsmann, Mises Economics Blog (Sept. 1, 2005).
The entire series runs for roughly 10–12 hours and are collected on a PFS Playlist.1 For further information see: Hoppe University: Hoppe and Hülsmann, Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics, Copenhagen Institute (2005).
This episode: Lecture 9: Theory and History (Hoppe).
All Lectures:
A Japanese translation of Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment, Stephan Kinsella and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, eds. (Papinian Press and The Saif House, 2026), entitled ロスバード生誕100周年: 追悼と回顧, trans. Tatsuya Iwakura (岩倉竜也), is now available, thanks to the PFS’s open publishing policy. Unlike certain other institutions we do not restrict translations or derivative works by using a CC-BY-NC-ND license, but instead use CC-BY, because we want pro-Austrian and pro-liberty writings to reach as many people as possible.1 Various Amazon links sent to us by the translator are listed below. See other translations at Translations of PFS Publications. [continue reading…]
Mauro Tosco, “Democracy: a threat to language diversity?,” in Contested Languages: The hidden multilingualism of Europe, Marco Tamburelli and Mauro Tosco, eds. (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021; alt).
Abstract: This chapter argues that democracy has both theoretical and practical implications that negatively affect the maintenance of language (and cultural) diversity. Attention is paid to the levelling effects of welfare policies, which tend to depress the speakers’ interest in language preservation and transmission and which typically negatively affect the quality of revitalisation programmes. The presentation discusses the practical and theoretical problems posed by possible ways out such as a voluntary, self-imposed “boundary maintenance” policy (Fishman 1991) and “the creation of linguistic fortresses or ghettoes” (Laponce 1984) in order to protect a minority language. Further, it argues that the democratic state – in itself just the last instalment of the nation-state – may have a special problem with multilingualism, and that language diversity possibly fared better in past forms of government.
Excerpted from an update to my post Libertarian and Lockean Creationism: Creation As a Source of Wealth, not Property Rights; Hayek’s “Fund of Experience”; the Distinction Between Scarce Means and Knowledge as Guides to Action:
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This article develops a typology of knowledge in economics, drawing on the works of Carl Menger and F. A. Hayek, to clarify how different types of knowledge affect production, coordination, and entrepreneurial profit. It organizes economically relevant knowledge along two axes—the physical world versus the catallactic world, on the one hand, and general versus applied, on the other—and adds a temporal dimension to distinguish knowledge problems from uncertainty. The framework reveals that while physical-world knowledge sets the boundaries of what can be produced, catallactic-world knowledge guides what should be produced and how. The article applies this typology to Austrian theories of the market process, showing that uncertainty arises when value knowledge is unavailable at the time of action and that entrepreneurial profit stems from bearing this uncertainty rather than from superior knowledge. This conceptual separation advances the understanding of economic causality and the distinct functions of knowledge in market processes.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 351.
On Sept. 17–18, 2005, Professors Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Guido Hülsmann presented a two-day 11-lecture series, “Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics,” in Klampenborg (just north of Copenhagen, Denmark), under the auspices of the Copenhagen Institute and Liberator. Program (local, and at right). See also Copenhagen Institute hosts Hoppe and Hülsmann, Mises Economics Blog (Sept. 1, 2005).
The entire series runs for roughly 10–12 hours and are collected on a PFS Playlist.1 For further information see: Hoppe University: Hoppe and Hülsmann, Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics, Copenhagen Institute (2005).
This episode: Lecture 8: The Economics of Deflation (Hülsmann).
All Lectures:
In 2009, the Mises Institute published Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a project Guido Hülsmann and and Stephan Kinsella spearheaded to honor Hans Hoppe on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Only a few of the pieces were published independently; we are posting them here in this Bookstream.
The first entry was republished at Property, Freedom, and Society Bookstream: Introduction, Hülsmann and Kinsella. Links to the remaining chapters may be found at the book’s landing page here, which will be updated as the book is streamed here. Here’s the next entry: Jeffrey A. Tucker, “Marxism Without Polylogism,” also previously published at Mises Daily (8/31/2009). [continue reading…]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 495.
Lecture, “Rothbard’s Revolutionary Contract Theory,” “Liberté Tribute to Rothbard on his Centenary: Rothbard 100: A Legacy for Future Generations,” Sociedad de la Libertad Latam (SdL) (a Latin American think tank based in Lima, Peru) and the 5th American Youth for Liberty Forum (Aug. 12, 2026, International Youth Day; via Youtube). Attendees included young people with a background in libertarian thought from Bolivia, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico.
The speech was my English language talk interspersed with a Spanish translation by the moderator, Rosa María Apaza, Presidente SDL LATAM.
The PFS Merch Store is now live—for PFS teeshirts, hats, and so on. Set up with the helpful assistance of The Swan Brothers (contact: Christian Valuski).
For suggestions as to additional designs or products, please contact Stephan Kinsella.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 350.
On Sept. 17–18, 2005, Professors Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Guido Hülsmann presented a two-day 11-lecture series, “Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics,” in Klampenborg (just north of Copenhagen, Denmark), under the auspices of the Copenhagen Institute and Liberator. Program (local, and at right). See also Copenhagen Institute hosts Hoppe and Hülsmann, Mises Economics Blog (Sept. 1, 2005).
The entire series runs for roughly 10–12 hours and are collected on a PFS Playlist.1 For further information see: Hoppe University: Hoppe and Hülsmann, Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics, Copenhagen Institute (2005).
This episode: Lecture 7: Business Cycle Theory (Hülsmann).
All Lectures:
David Veksler, who recently revived the old Mises Wiki as The Austrian Economics Wiki, has used his growing mastery of AI and coding and passion for liberty to turn “a stale 2009–2014 torrent of public domain and Creative Commons libertarian works into a working library.” This is quite amazing. His Facebook post (Aug. 9. 2026) explains what is here:
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The Liberty Archive (https://freecapitalists.org/), by the numbers
I spent the last week turning a stale 2009–2014 torrent of public domain and Creative Commons libertarian works into a working library. Here’s what’s in it as of August 9, 2026:
219 new EPUBs, converted from PDF-only scans that never had an ebook edition. Every one passes a word-count QA check against the source PDF before it ships.Podcast: Play in new window | Download (77.0MB)
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 349.
On Sept. 17–18, 2005, Professors Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Guido Hülsmann presented a two-day 11-lecture series, “Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics,” in Klampenborg (just north of Copenhagen, Denmark), under the auspices of the Copenhagen Institute and Liberator. Program (local, and at right). See also Copenhagen Institute hosts Hoppe and Hülsmann, Mises Economics Blog (Sept. 1, 2005).
The entire series runs for roughly 10–12 hours and are collected on a PFS Playlist.1 For further information see: Hoppe University: Hoppe and Hülsmann, Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics, Copenhagen Institute (2005).
This episode: Lecture 6: Praxeology: The Austrian Method—Extended Version. [continue reading…]
In 2009, the Mises Institute published Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a project Guido Hülsmann and and Stephan Kinsella spearheaded to honor Hans Hoppe on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Only a few of the pieces were published independently; we are posting them here in this Bookstream.
The first entry was republished at Property, Freedom, and Society Bookstream: Introduction, Hülsmann and Kinsella. Links to the remaining chapters may be found at the book’s landing page here, which will be updated as the book is streamed here. Here’s the next entry. [continue reading…]
As noted here, the 2026 Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society will be held from Thursday, September 17, 2026 to Tuesday, September 22, 2026.
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Rothbard at 100 is in production! As you can see, the books are printed in premium hardcover with gold foil stamping, and then they will be covered with a dust jacket. Also available as an audiobook and eBook. Preorder your copy now: https://t.co/iaEh0bk5G0 pic.twitter.com/bapPGmhFHb
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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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