Professor’s Hoppe’s Economic Science and the Austrian Method has been translated into Spanish, as “La ciencia económica y el método austriaco” [PDF] by Dante Bayona. It should be available soon for purchase in paper form on Amazon.
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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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“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.)
Alessandro Fusillo
Doug French
Fernando Chiocca
Greg Morin
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Jay Baykal
Juan Fernando Carpio
Martin Cabrera
Oscar Grau
PFS
Stephan Kinsella
Tom DiLorenzo
Great news! I am currently working on a paper for a seminar to be held in Universidad de Navarra (Spain) in December. In my paper I present arguments against the pragmatic theory of truth (Peirce) and the consensus theory of truth (Apel) from a praxeological point of view. I have read Hoppe’s “The Economics and Ethics of Private Property” and currently reading Mises’ “Human Action”. Absolutely awesome to go deeper into the ‘verstehen’ of this approach of epistemology which I now consider to be the most appropriate way to consider the foundations of knowledge at least for the human sciences.
If professor Hoppe would consider my services as a translator of his intellectual work into Spanish, please contact me and I will be sending my resume upon request.