On Thursday, January 8, Professor Jörg Guido Hülsmann delivered a lecture at the Grémio Literário, in Lisbon, on his latest book, Abundance, Generosity and the State: An Inquiry into the Economic Principles, marking the publication of its European Portuguese translation by Manuel Ogando. The book is available for purchase through Cataláxia Editora, or as a free download here. [continue reading…]
From HansHoppe.com:
“Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe, an Anti-Intellectual Intellectual” (pdf), English translation of Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Potret Intelektual Anti-Intelektual (local version), interview (in Indonesian) by Sukasah Syahdan in Akal dan Kehendak (“Reason and Will,” an online weekly Journal on Liberty, Indonesia), Apr. 28, 2008. The English translation is below.
For other biographical material, see Hoppe Biography.
Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe, an Anti-Intellectual Intellectual
Sukasah Syahdan*
As is sometimes the case even today, Hans-Hermann Hoppe as a young man was also a left-winger. Yet a reading of Böhm-Bawerk’s critiques of Marxism quickly planted a first seed of disbelief in the system, making him aware of the illusion overwhelming the Zeitgeist. For some time, he became a mild Popperian and social democrat. This precursored his determination to examine further the economic science and sociology.
By this time young Hoppe seemed to have arrived at a crucial conclusion: on the existence of sciences whose theorems are ‘empirically’ irrefutable or non-falsifiable, even in social realms. His exploration led him to believe that economic laws are a priori, traceable by use of deductive syllogism. However, it was his exposure to the thoughts of Ludwig von Mises, the eminent scholar of the tradition that later bears his very name, that he came to understand his place amidst the sometimes hostile competing thoughts. He learned that he, a native German, was in fact an “Austrian.”
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 305.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist.
Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria/Switzerland): Bitcoin from the Viewpoint of the Austrian School.
Note: For those who complain that some Austrian groups do not give enough attention to, are or even hostile to, bitcoin (see Robert P. Murphy, Bitcoin and the Theory of Money, Mises Wire (04/29/2020); Kinsella, KOL401 | Sazmining Twitter Space: Bitcoin & Property Rights; Bitcoin Confiscation vs. Gold Confiscation; On Coinbase, Bitcoin, Fractional-Reserve Banking, and Irregular Deposits; LIBERTARIAN ANSWER MAN: Smart Contracts), keep in mind that for many years PFS has accepted donations by Bitcoin; we have featured Saifedean Ammous many times, often touching on bitcoin [PFP222 | Saifedean Ammous: Hard Money and Time Preference (PFS 2021)]; years ago Roman Skaskiw was here and gave an informal lecture and handed out cards with $5 worth of bitcoin, as I recall, to attendees (which would be worth $4200 or so today, June 28, 2025; see PFS 2013 Annual Meeting—Speakers and Presentations); Professor Hoppe has never spoken out against it, unlike other Austrians (in fact, see his comments at PFP251 | Van Dun, Hoppe, Dürr, Discussion, Q&A (PFS 2022) and Hoppe on Germany, East and West, Russia/Ukraine, and US-NATO (PFS 2022)]; I spoke on it [KOL274 | Nobody Owns Bitcoin (PFS 2019)]; Šimašius’s comments in [Interview] Libertarian Mayor of Vilnius Speaks!; and so on.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 304.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist.
Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France): The Universities and the State [Sebastian Wang, “Guido Hülsmann on Universities and the State – PFS Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 20, 2025)]
Professor Hoppe’s email address may be found at his Contact page. It is now [email protected].
Please note that hoppe @ mises.com should no longer be used.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 303.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist.
Jeff Deist (USA): Understanding Post-Persuasion America [Sebastian Wang, “Jeff Deist on Post-Persuasion America – PFS Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 20, 2025)]
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Stephan Kinsella (USA), and Alessandro Fusillo (Italy) were guests and speakers at the Liberland Christmas Party and Constitution Celebration held in Prague at the elegant Le Palais Art Hotel in Prague on 19 Dec. 2025. Invited by long-time PFS member and Liberland President and Founder Vít Jedlička, the gathering featured speeches, presentations, a press conference, and various awards, presentations, and announcements. President Jedlička awarded the Liberland Award of Merit to Professor Hoppe and Mr. Kinsella, and citizenship and passports to Mr. Kinsella and Mr. Fusillo. Photographs from the event may be be found at Prague 2025: Liberland Constitution Celebration: Photos; also Vit’s post at Facebook, my facebook post, and online at google drive (full set) and here (Kinsella set). [continue reading…]
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 302.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Thorsten Polleit (Germany): Stanislav Andreski’s Social Sciences as Sorcery (1972): Known Errors, Deceptions and Intellectual Corruption That Endure [Polleit, “Stanislav Andreski’s Social Sciences as Sorcery: Enduring Errors and Academic Corruption – Thorsten Polleit, PFS Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 20, 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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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 301.
This panel discussion is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Alessandro Fusillo (Italy), Anthony Daniels (Dalrymple) (England), David Dürr (Switzerland), Sean Gabb (England), Stephan Kinsella (USA), Discussion, Q&A. Shownotes and transcript below.
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist. [continue reading…]
Related:
- Democracy: The God That Failed (Transaction, 2001)
- From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy (Mises 2014)
- The Political Economy of Monarchy and Democracy, and the Idea of a Natural Order (Vol. 11 Num. 2) (excerpted as “Political Economy of Monarchy and Democracy,” Mises Daily (Feb. 1, 2010)
- Time Preference, Government, and the Process of De-Civilization – From Monarchy to Democracy, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, Vol.5, 2, 1994; also published in John Denson, ed., The Costs of War (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1997) and as ch. 1 of Democracy: God that Failed
- The Trouble With Democracy, Nov. 12, 2001
- Prince Hans-Adam, The State in the Third Millennium (I.B. Tauris 2009)
- Kinsella, Hoppe Is Not A Monarchist
Romaric Godin, “Liechtenstein’s Feudal Prince Has Become a Libertarian Hero,” Jacobin (12.02.2025). Mentions Hoppe as well. Excerpt: [continue reading…]
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 300.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
David Dürr (Switzerland): A Brief History of Swiss Anarchism [Sebastian Wang, “David Dürr on Swiss Anarchism – Property and Freedom Society Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 21, 2025)] Shownotes and transcript below.
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist. [continue reading…]
The latest PFS book has just been published by Sebastian Wang and his Hampden Press, co-published with the Property and Freedom Society.
Sebastian Wang, Freedom Under the Sun: Proceedings of the Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, 2025, edited and with an introduction by Sean Gabb (Hampden Press and Property and Freedom Society, 2025). It also includes a Foreword by Stephan Kinsella. It is available in paper, Kindle, and audiobook (Amazon.com). All PFS members should be grateful to Dr. Gabb for producing this work.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 299.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Alessandro Fusillo (Italy): The Pirates of the Caribbean as Forebears of the Libertarians and of the American Revolution [Sebastian Wang, “Pirates, Liberty, and Revolution: Alessandro Fusillo in Bodrum,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 19, 2025)] Shownotes and transcript below.
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist. [continue reading…]
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 298.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Anthony Daniels (Dalrymple) (England): The Worldly Adventures of a Skeptical Doctor. Shownotes and transcript below.
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist. [continue reading…]
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.
Update: See tweet: audio at the Bitcoin Podcast, Ep. 328 (Youtube, Spotify, Apple)
Recent publications by PFS members: Jozef Martiniak, “DeLiecht – Decentralized Liechtensteins,” AusEkon (27 July 2025). (Note: Part 2 appended below) 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.
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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.
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…]
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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…]
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.
Note: Other photos available at:
- PFS 2025 Annual Meeting
- Stephan Kinsella, PFS 2025: Photos and Memories
- Martín Cabrera y Marisa Jarquin, First Guatemalans at the PFS
Guest post by Martín Cabrera y Marisa Jarquin, adapted from “First Guatemalans at the PFS,” Guate Libre (Oct. 15, 2025) (Spanish version)
Related:
- Sebastian Wang, “Bodrum 2025: Reflections on a Journey,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 24, 2025)
- For other pieces by Wang summarizing many of the talks from PFS 2025, see PFS 2025 Annual Meeting—Speakers and Topics.
- other Press & Offsite Material
Other photos available at:
- PFS 2025 Annual Meeting
- Stephan Kinsella, PFS 2025: Photos and Memories
- Juan Fernando Carpio, PFS 2025: Cozy, Inspiring, Invigorating: My Thoughts on This Year’s PFS Meeting
First Guatemalans at the PFS
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:
Hoppe’s Habilitation Thesis: Critique of Causal Scientific Social Research
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…]
- See here; 2007 pdf here. [↩]
- I asked the translator about the translation of the title. In his reply, he said that it refers to one principle, which can be simplified to “to each their own,” and that the translation for the concept “right/law” “speaks to a more fundamental issue that I have not been able to resolve. … “Beginsel” means “fundamental principle”, “Recht” has no direct translation. I am not sure on how to best deal with this, so I opted for the “law/right” approach, and addressed the issue in the introduction. Another option would be to run a find and replace on “law/right” => “recht.” [↩]
From StephanKinsella.com:
Fusillo on the Universal Principles of Liberty and Liberland
Related
- The Universal Principles of Liberty
- Kinsella, “Announcing the Universal Principles of Liberty“
- Libertarian Nation and Related Projects
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…]
Alessandro Fusillo
Andreas Tögel
David Dürr
Doug French
Fernando Chiocca
Greg Morin
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Jay Baykal
Jayant Bhandari
Jeff Deist
Jeffrey Barr
Juan Fernando Carpio
Ken Yamarashi
León Isidoro
Martin Cabrera
Nick Hoppe
Oscar Grau
Peter Wong
PFS
scholarium
Saifedean Ammous
Sean Gabb
Sean Ring
Stephan Kinsella
Stéphane Geyres
Thomas Jacob
Tom DiLorenzo
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