PFS 2025 Annual Meeting—Announced; Speakers and Topics

by Stephan Kinsella on January 6, 2025

PFS 2025, the Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, hosted by Drs. Gülçin & Hans Hoppe, will take place in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess from Thursday, September 18, 2025 to Tuesday, September 23, 2025. This is the nineteenth annual meeting of the PFS held over a nineteen year period, starting in 2006 (the 2020 meeting was canceled due to covid restrictions).

To seek an invitation to our exclusive annual salon, please write to the PFS secretary Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements. For information about previous annual meetings, see here, the PFS Youtube channel and the Property and Freedom Podcast.

The list of speakers and topics for the 2025 Annual Meeting follows:

Speakers and Topics

Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey): On Democratic War and Democratic Peace-Making
Saifedean Ammous (Palestine/Jordan): Monarchy, Democracy, and Time Preference in the Arab World
Anthony Daniels (Dalrymple) (England): The worldly Adventures of a Skeptical Doctor
Jeff Deist (USA): The Linguistic Vandals: How the Left Controls Words
David Dürr (Switzerland): A Brief History of Swiss Anarchism
Alessandro Fusillo (Italy): The Pirates of the Caribbean as Forebears of the Libertarians and of the American Revolution
Sean Gabb (England): Roman Law and Contractual Slavery
Kristoffer Mousten Hansen: Mileinomics
Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France): The Universities and the State
Stephan Kinsella (USA): “Where The Common Law Goes Wrong,”
Thorsten Polleit (Germany): Stanislav Andreski’s Social Sciences as Sorcery (1972): Known Errors, Deceptions And Intellectual Corruption That Endure
Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria/Switzerland): Bitcoin from the Viewpoint of the Austrian School¹

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About the PFS

The Property and Freedom Society (Facebook; Twitter) was established in May, 2006 at the initiative of world-renowned libertarian philosopher and Austrian economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe. The Inaugural Meeting and subsequent annual meetings have been held at the Hotel Karia Princess in Bodrum, Turkey. Programmes and video of previous presentations are available here.

The PFS is an international society for the promotion of “Austro-Libertarianism,” the economic and social philosophy most prominently represented during the 20th century by the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises and his leading American student Murray N. Rothbard, and tying back to the 19th century French economists Frederic Bastiat and Gustave de Molinari.

As such, the PFS 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. In the words of Professor Hoppe in 2010, at the Fifth Annual Meeting:

After the first meeting, 5 years ago, here at the Karia Princess, my plan became more specific still. Inspired by the charm of the place and its beautiful garden, I decided to adopt the model of a salon for the Property And Freedom Society and its meetings. The dictionary defines a salon as “a gathering of intellectual, social, political, and cultural elites under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation.” Take the “political” out of this definition—and there you have it what I have tried to accomplish for the last few years, together with Gülcin, my wife and fellow Misesian, without whose support none of this would be possible: to be hostess and host to a grand and extended annual salon, and to make it, with your help, the most attractive and illustrious salon there is. [Video here and streamed below]

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