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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 056.

This lecture is from the 2010 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “World War II: Western Imperialism and the New Middle East,” by Hunt Tooley (USA). PFS 2010 Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 055.

By Norman Stone^†. This lecture is from the 2010 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “World War I—the Eastern Front: Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and the Making of Turkey and the Modern Middle East,” by Norman Stone† (UK/Turkey). PFS 2010 Playlist. Transcript and shownotes below.

See also

• Norman Stone on Turkey: World War I, Ottoman Legacy, and Lessons from Spain
• PFP090 | Norman Stone, Comparative History: Turkey and Spain (PFS 2012)

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Shownotes/Summary (Grok)

Lecture Introduction and Personal Challenges 0:22

Historian Norman Stone discusses difficulties with technology during the presentation. He notes he is a Scotsman not skilled in engineering or PowerPoint, referencing a scene from The Third Man. He proceeds with his voice-only lecture on a broad historical topic.

Historian’s View on Economics and Lecture Scope 1:02

Stone explains that much of later twentieth-century economics stems from the anomalous conditions of the first half of the 20th century, particularly the Great Depression as a product of the First World War. He prefers returning to 1890 standards. He acknowledges the challenge of covering the vast subject of the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire from Morocco to the Volga, indicating only main lines.

Conflict Origins from 1911 Onward 2:06

The First World War is traced back to 1911 rather than 1914, beginning with the second Moroccan dispute involving a German gunboat at Agadir. This led to Italian invasion of Libya and occupation of the Dodecanese Islands. The Turks suffered in that war due to lack of navy, prompting Balkan states to attack the Ottoman Empire.

Geopolitical Rivalries Involving Germany, Britain, and Russia 3:45

Germans and Austrians viewed Ottoman Turkey strategically, similar to British positions in Egypt. Rivalries over the Middle East involved oil and brought Russia and Germany into conflict. The war in the West ended in 1918, but continued with the Turkish nationalist war of independence until 1923. Stone references the post-war effort to return to “normalcy” under President Harding.

Western Attempts to Control the Middle East 4:43

Stone examines Western, German, Russian, British, French, and Italian efforts to take over the Middle East, including creation of mandates and the Jewish National Home. He cites Lord Curzon’s overconfident vision of a new Roman Empire. Failures became evident by 1930 in Iraq, as observed by Lawrence of Arabia, contrasting Turkish methods of control with smaller local forces.

Overconfidence Among Educated Leaders 6:12

Stone questions why well-educated leaders of 1914 exhibited such overconfidence leading the West into complex Middle East situations. He draws parallels to later American actions in Iraq, noting his own initial support despite Turkish friends’ warnings. The lecture addresses overconfidence in dealing with the region.

Gallipoli Campaign and Dissenting Voices 7:43

In 1915, Winston Churchill pushed for battleships through the Dardanelles expecting Turkish collapse. Only two British figures opposed it: Aubrey Herbert, a linguist who warned pushing Turks would make them fight back, and Dauntesey Wylie, a former military consul in Adana sympathetic to Turks from the Armenian context, who served in the Red Crescent and refused to carry a gun, later killed at Gallipoli.

Clarifying Orientalism and Scholarly Context 10:01

Stone defends the term Orientalist against Edward Said’s usage, recommending Michael Robert Irwin’s critique. True Orientalists love their difficult subjects like Arabic or Ottoman Turkish. He protests the misuse, noting German scholarship’s prominence, and discusses self-reflection on Western civilization.

What Made the Ottoman Empire Function 11:57

Stone explores why the Ottoman Middle East “ticked” under Turkish rule, as noted by Lawrence, unlike under the West. He discusses historical theories linking Turks to Byzantine models and the flexible, open Islam of the 15th-16th centuries under Mehmed the Conqueror and Suleiman, contrasting with later decline narratives.

Debates on Ottoman Decline and Religious Parallels 14:20

Decline is attributed sometimes to Islam, with examples like opposition to telescopes and astronomy by ulama. Stone compares this to counter-reformation Catholicism in Spain, citing a late 18th-century university question on the language of angels.

Kemalist Revolution and Rejection of Ottoman Past 16:37

The Turkish Republic under Atatürk rejected Ottoman history as rubbish, reforming language, emancipating women, and following foreign models while limiting encouragement of Islam. Stone notes limits to persecution and the revolution’s role in survival, though he critiques excessive hero worship and statues.

Successes, Challenges, and Modern Dynamics of Turkey 20:14

Despite issues, the Turkish Republic is a success story with dynamic economy, black market activity, and handling of refugees. Erosion of secular standards led to rise of political Islam. Stone discusses Kurdish problems, relations with Europe, expansion into Russia and Central Asia, and risks of overreach, including reactions to Israeli actions.

Personal Reflections and Closing Thoughts 23:58

Stone shares his 1995 move to Turkey and positive experiences. He reflects on the Ottoman Empire’s complexity and uncertainties for the region’s future regarding Islam, education, and women’s roles, concluding his lecture.

Transcript (Grok)

Introduction and Audio Setup Issues 0:22

First, first question is, can you hear me? Alright, is that any better? No, I’m sorry, I simply cannot handle technology and I’m a Scotsman. We are famous for our engineering, not me. If I were to try a PowerPoint presentation I’m afraid it would be a farce like you remember the lecture in The Third Man who ends up running away and being bitten by a parrot. No good. So if you can bear with my voice, here we go.

Historian’s Perspective on Economics and the Lecture Scope 1:02

I might start off by saying that you know I am a historian and it’s been very interesting listening to people talking this morning about economics. It always strikes me that you know the sort of economics you get in the later twentieth century it’s really based on the first half of the 20th century, the Great Depression really. It’s utterly anomalous, a product of the First World War and so on. So the sooner we get back to 1890 the better.

Now I’ve got, I suppose it is the end, it is the hard luck story of all lectures but I have a huge subject to cover and I’ll do my best with it. The Middle East, the Ottoman Empire with all the complications that followed there from. The Ottoman Empire from Morocco to the Volga at one stage. I don’t want to talk about this, I can only indicate one or two main lines.

Origins of Conflict: From 1911 to World War I 2:06

Now let me just sum up the period that I think we should maybe concentrate on. The First World War didn’t really break out in 1914, it broke out in 1911. I don’t know, those of you maybe remember the origins of the First World War will maybe remember the second Moroccan dispute when the Germans sent a gunboat to Agadir and a Franco-German war resulted. Now that resulted in the British taking the side of the French and in the gap the Italians thought a good time for us to get our bit in the sun. So they invaded Libya which was then a lot of sand and then went on to occupy the Dodecanese Islands, future just down the road. And that was Italy firing the starting gun.

Now the Turks didn’t have a good time with that war. They didn’t have the navy and of course it excited the Balkan states to start attacking the Ottoman Empire so they took a lot of importance on except for the area in Anatolia. Then the First World War comes up and as if I mentioned too that which is relevant the Germans and the Austrians said the Ottoman Turkey is going to be our Egypt position the British have in Egypt or a slight offensive in Syria. The Germans would get in Anatolia a determined presence. The Austrian presence is all around.

Geopolitical Rivalries and the Broader War Context 3:45

Ikura really became capable because the Germans put a railway station in it and it comes that dimension of rivalry over the Middle East already involving oil. Brought Russia and Germany for the first time did a great clash and that’s the background. Now the war in the West formally ended in November 1918 but then it went on and it went on with the Turkish nationalist war of independence which was really only ended in the summer of nineteen twenty-three. So when we talk of the First World War we’re really talking 1911 to 1923 after which the world makes its failed effort to get back to what an American president called normalcy. Wonderful word, President Harding.

Western Overconfidence in the Middle East 4:43

Now what do we make of this, of the attempt by the West to take over the Middle East. The Germans in Manatee, the Russians had a go, the British and French, the Italians step in, create mandates, create if you like the Jewish National Home. And people like Lord Curzon, a foreign secretary who had been Viceroy of India when he was asked what do you think about the British Empire your lordship replied which will be in India assist forever thinking it’s going to be a new Roman Empire.

Now these people do the very foolish indeed not just by 1947 when they had to scuttle out of India but even by 1930 it was obvious enough that Iraq hadn’t worked and Lawrence of Arabia observed at all and he said why is it that we with an army of a hundred thousand men with poison gas, the Daleks, can’t keep the peace in Iraq where the Turks did it with a locally raised army 13,000 men executing ninety five people a year? Question mark. It’s a good question, be it said then as now.

Questioning Overconfidence and Historical Parallels 6:12

Now looking back on it the thing that I really don’t understand is this: why is it that these people of 1914 got it so badly wrong because my George they’re very well educated, they’re very clever, they wrote extremely well, a lot of them. Could they be so wrong? What are tons of this amazing overconfidence with which they lead the West into this potential in the Middle East?

I suppose although you know they weren’t hard to much on it I suppose the same thing would have to be said about the Americans later on going into Iraq. I have to say that maybe I was mistaken but I supported that although my Turkish friends said you’re quite wrong this is not a good idea. But at any rate one striking thing is the confidence with which they go in and then suddenly run into a position into a situation which is to say the least complicated. As I say I’m not going to condemn because I’d have to condemn my own judgment. So we’re dealing with the question first of all of overconfidence and dealing with a Middle East.

Gallipoli and Dissenting Voices 7:43

No I might as well tell you a little anecdote about this. In 1915 when the Turks they appeared to be very weak Winston Churchill said the moment has come to send battleships through the Dardanelles and the Turks will just collapse. After all they collapsed in the Balkan wars they won’t fight back. And they landed their army at Gallipoli and only two people in the whole of the British Army said this is a mistake. One was an interesting man, Aubrey Herbert who was the son of the Earl of Carnarvon who had was one of these weird linguists. He picked up personal Turkish, got those what and he said don’t do this. He was the interpreter. He said if you push the Turks against the wall they’ll fight back.

And the other man was another interesting chap a regiment in command and Dauntesey Wylie who had been had become what was called a military consul in Adana. You know as the as the Ottoman were written the Armenian question to be frank as it got internationalized international observers were placed there to see what was happening that they were called military consuls and Delta Wylie is one, a colonel in the decent regiment and he lived in Adana and saw what was going on. He could see the problems of the whole Armenian thing and he ended up sympathizing with the Turks and when the Balkan Wars broke out he resigned his commission and served in the Turkish equivalent of the Red Cross it’s called the Red Crescent and they gave him a big medal for it. Now he joined the army did his military stuff until Emily but when he was invited to go and land at the Dardanelles he said I’m not carrying a gun and not gonna kill any Turks so he carried a swagger stick only and I’m sorry to say he got killed. Dauntesey Wylie. They were the only two people in the British Army who said this is a mistake.

Orientalism and Scholarly Love of the Subject 10:01

No let me just introduce another little point which I think I to myself to mention. You’ll be aware of the name Edward Said. Now before you read Orientalism have a look at a devastating book by Michael Robert Irwin which is about the Said question. The word Orientalist has now become an insult it means that people look at the Orient the Near East with Western eyes and as it were adopting insulting patronizing attitude to it. Now that is an utter and total misuse of the word Orientalist. The Orientalists are people who almost by definition love the subject. You cannot take on something that’s difficult as Arabic or Ottoman Turkish or I think multi-person without having almost a love of the subject you’d have to have it and they don’t spend their lives looking at the places like this if they automatically dislike it or want to patronize it. It’s quite wrong.

And the Said book is full of holes. Part with eels he neglected the whole of German scholarship. German scholarship on this subject is bigger than anywhere else. So I want to make my original protest against this misuse of the word Orientalist. Now there are Orientalists and the Orientalists in this citation spar here there are people who look at their own civilization and say why are we not the West. These are the Orientalists not us. And this introduces quite an interesting subject about the background to the First World War and the aftermath.

What Made the Ottoman Empire Function 11:57

What made Turkey tick because we can no mass of that question. The Middle East when it was Ottoman somehow ticked as Lawrence noticed. It didn’t tick with the West at all. Now what made the Ottoman tick and it’s a good enough question to begin with. In the days when Carson was expressing himself with their contempt on the south wall glorification and the subject of the West he would say people would say the Turks revealed everything to present him. There is a theory of Turkish history associative method gives America when he was stopped with in 1916 which said that the Turks are the sort of people who can create an empire to stand for a couple of generations then it collapses. If they want to if they make a real Empire they had to take new models of Byzantium so they were sort of presenting with a Tajik if you like and this can really be waved a sound that we can forget about that. There are interesting similarities between the Turks and a slice of delete by sometimes half the Byzantine aristocracy simply defected to the Turks because they had a state that worked.

As soon as that but you can’t really argue that it’s present him in disguise. What you can maybe argue about talking is that the Islam of the creative days by which I mean the 15th century when Constantinople was taken it’s an Islam which is much more open. A wine is dropped at the court for instance. They want the Orthodox Church became the biggest landowner in whole of the Empire. Mehmed the Conqueror was after all himself correspondent Christian by origin and you could argue I’m not going to be dogmatic but the Islam which created the Ottomans in the early days up to Suleiman in the sixteenth century it’s maybe much more flexible more open. It’s at least arguable.

Decline Debates and Comparisons 14:20

And now the it’s possible to argue and here you know in your stamping on cause why did the Ottoman Empire decline and again there is as it were an Orientalist attitude which is associated with the Republic of the 1930s and 1940s when people would say the Ottoman Empire declined because of Islam. And you take this sort of story in 1570 1583 I think we’re out the third I’m not sure but around then there was an Ottoman astronomy you need to do for navigation that they have a very good Navy and they had telescopes in the top of the tower that message and the clerics didn’t like this the ulama didn’t like this part of cousins astrology and they said look you’re trying to probe the secrets of God you mustn’t do this. And then there was an earthquake but the ulema said that’s God’s punishment for your tribe looking at his secrets so they took the telescopes down off of the tower end of Ottoman astronomy.

Well you might say right Islamic and to progress but then you might widen it to take in what generally happened in the Mediterranean time if you take for instance the world of come to revenue counter-reformation Spain it’s not entirely the cinema I came across a wonderful one since 1776 Adam Smith publishes America does it stop there was one faculty left the University of Salamanca all the dogs were busy doing something else so they there was only one question to be answered in Latin and he grade what language did the angel speak and that is no that is the world of counter-reformation Catholicism in the later 18th century it’s rather similar to what could be said to be going on with Islam in that period.

Kemalist Revolution and Its Impacts 16:37

Now however you want to argue the there is one stand which is worth picking on now I think when we looked in that doesn’t name devilish politics you know for a long time in Turkey you were supposed to say that they laid out of an empire just so much historical rubbish you know the great lineman and one of the bits of truth which I remember which is but these people look on history as a chicken looks at the base of a Michel from which it is evolutionary twenties and you might have said let’s just get rid of all of this Ottoman junk all these creepy corrupt sometimes all these dead parents with their silly quest they’re unreadable script let’s emancipate the women let’s follow the best foreign examples to come. Judy came from America to apply some on education this kind of thing.

David Nanette devourer arrived to tell me one about the Dahle German architects all over the place so they ruined period but they do not want to know about their history and although Islam wasn’t exactly suppressed it wasn’t getting any sort of encouragement you know it is sometimes issue if human if you don’t give religion what he wants it seems to be persecuted when it talks the language of the persecuted in the slightest the persecutor in effect so you have to be careful about that and there were limits to the persecution of Islam they had at the time but they do not want to know about the Ottoman past and they had thrown out almost all members of the Ottoman dynasty who were languishing abroad a lot of them. They reformed the language in a way which some people would sue Mr. Thatcher would say that the language before was brutal and unnecessary but it still defines the Turks they’ve got a literate population which should go into a bookshop you will see quite a flourishing publishing industry and it wouldn’t include anywhere to the east and south but this would be the case.

At any rate my point is that they utter total revolution is something which abolished Esther no and it’s not his name which accounts for the survival holding statutes around the place. I’m not terribly hostile to it because I can see why an educated girl would say assuming of London if that man hadn’t lived I wouldn’t have been where I have known with an independent income and a job of my own it’s a cold they obviously exaggerate there are too many statues of that sort I don’t know what they could do some of the quotations are in funny with I don’t know how many of you here are Turkish but the best one I ever discovered was in a garage and the way to Cappadocia where great minds like Jews there and it read to show through any muscle in the sun meaning the Turkish driver is a person of the most exquisite sensitivity.

Obviously we have to get away from this kind of hero worship.

Turkish Republic Successes and Challenges 20:14

Now what has been interesting about it is the way in which the Turkish Republic despite everything despite its ability to despite this that the other it’s been a success story and the little examples all over the place. Russians died at 62 sire 70 I don’t believe the statistics of I don’t believe any statistical data at all largely because they thought you know they’ve got better things to do at the time their statistics and I often think that the Italians stings in the state and our dynamic the day and then he from the people in this statement no this is a place with a huge black economy it’s going somewhere.

Little example there are something like two million refugees here and that is normally with any other doctor in Athens and Singapore I won’t go on about that the point is too obvious I think to anybody seen it problems all over the place. No one strange consequence has been that the auditory public has been eroded its secular standards which resulted in many many very good things. Nathan hospitals not bad schools all that’s worthy and the setting of standards have ceased somehow to be living and so you have the phenomenon coming up of political Islam here. And I don’t want to talk too much about what goes on internally what what I’m interested in is what the consequences are going to be for the whole area because Turkey has the dynamic bit of it to decide the one where you know mix things it gets prizes for it says six teams and that Turkey is going to be sucked into a sort of mode that it had in the 17th 18th century when it’s got its tensions got its family relations.

I’m afraid to say you know we have a Kurdish problem here it’s not an easy one there are seven different Kurdish languages setting up the Kurdistan not a simple matter maybe the answer to it is going to have to be but the Turks take over northern Iran that’s happened in the days of selling the guerrilla it means problems for the Turks their relationship with Europe has become become complicated is tell a woman earth to be done about that on the economic side it’s very valuable from the other side the Turks are expanding into Russia they exposed to even to Central Asia but going up with something like 50 percent per annum in other words turkeys in a very dangerous position in the moment when it might get the idea that it has the right to being the thing power and week I had this sort of things dangerous.

Contemporary Reflections and Closing 23:58

And I found I have to say that business with Israel the other day just it immensely diss me. I don’t know what the answer to the Gaza Strip would be but I think to use it as the way of building up 30 Israeli settlement which is quite easy to do here would have to say not that too Jewish but anti Israeli is quite easy to stir it up allowing that to happen but then for the Israelis all the things of rated battery of course compounds the whole problem.

So it looks to me as if we’re when I came to Turkey in 1995 people said you know what a strange exactly thing to do I mean I came here for many reasons they very thirsty which was when I arrived at the airport assault six policemen straight out at midnight express but we unbelievably great big black mustaches smoking heavily and resign but strictly no smoking alcohol my sort of country. Leather and the decision to come here in 1925 no lose great detail message senator I didn’t know what I was letting myself in for but it’s been an explorer apparel industry of time. Now where we go from here is I think good a bit complicated unafraid of the Ottoman Empire got torn apart looking at the end of the next having to deal with Moroccan one minute and of Voltaire the next worried again what sort of Islamic it has what its attitudes would be to education of women all this kind of thing until at the end they say or please waste somebody thought the Union which is quite the wrong thing because this country is not stated its own now I think I’ve probably enough.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 054.

This lecture is from the 2010 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “Not New, Not True, Irrelevant or Evil: How Economic Nobel Prizes Are Won,” by Nikolay Gertchev (France). PFS 2010 Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 053.

This lecture is from the 2010 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “The Mirage of Cheap Credit,” by Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France). PFS 2010 Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 052.

This lecture is from the 2010 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “The Cantillon Effect: How to Enrich Yourself at Others’ Expense Without Anyone Noticing It,” by Olivier Richard (Switzerland). PFS 2010 Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 051.

This panel discussion is from the 2010 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “Discussion, Q&A,” by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Richard Spencer (USA), Marco Bassani (Italy), Paul Gottfried (USA) and Richard Lynn (England). PFS 2010 Playlist.

Note the caveats re Spencer and the Alt-Right in PFP047 | Richard Spencer, The “Alternative Right” in America (PFS 2010).

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 0-.

This lecture is from the 2010 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “On Human Diversity: The Global Bell Curve. Updates and Critical Replies,” by Richard Lynn (England). PFS 2010 Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 049.

This lecture is from the 2010 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “Encountering the Left: My Meetings with Herbert Marcuse,” by Paul Gottfried (USA). PFS 2010 Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 048.

This lecture is from the 2010 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “It Usually Begins with John Locke: Reflections on Classical Liberalism and the State,” by Marco Bassani (Italy). PFS 2010 Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 047.

This lecture is from the 2010 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “The ‘Alternative Right’ in America,” Richard Spencer (USA). PFS 2010 Playlist.

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Note: This took place well before the “alt-right” had fully emerged and around the time Spencer launched his Alternative Right magazine. The contours of the alt-right became clearer later, which Professor Hoppe criticized in “Libertarianism and the Alt-Right: In Search of a Libertarian Strategy for Social Change (2017)“: [continue reading…]

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 046.

This lecture is from the 2010 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “Welcoming Remarks: The Property And Freedom Society—Reflections After Five Years,” by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey). PFS 2010 Playlist.

Print versions: The Property And Freedom Society—Reflections After Five Years, VDARE (June 9, 2010); also published as The Property And Freedom Society—Reflections After Five Years, The Libertarian Standard (June 10, 2010) and “My Life on the Right,” ch. 24 in The Great Fiction; reposted at LewRockwell.com; Spanish translation: La Sociedad “Propiedad y Libertad”–Reflexiones después de cinco años).

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 045.

This lecture is from the 2009 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “Bonus: Robert Groezinger Interviews Guido Hülsmann (in German),” with Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France) & Robert Groezinger (Germany). PFS 2009 Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 044.

This lecture is from the 2009 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “Bonus: Robert Groezinger Interviews Sean Gabb,” with Sean Gabb (England) & Robert Groezinger (Germany). PFS 2009 Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 043.

This panel discussion is from the 2009 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “Discussion, Q&A,” by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey) & Sean Gabb (England). PFS 2009 Playlist.

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Note that the audio quality for the 2006 and 2008 meetings (there were no recordings for the 2007 meeting) was poor and has been improved as much as possible by Podsworth Media. Audio for the 2009 meeting was better but has also been tweaked a bit by Podsworth. The audio quality improves significantly starting with the 2010 meeting.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 042.

This lecture is from the 2009 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “What is the “Ruling Class?”, by Sean Gabb (England). PFS 2009 Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 041.

This lecture is from the 2009 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “From the Malthusian Trap to the Industrial Revolution: An Explanation of Social Evolution,” by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey). PFS 2009 Playlist.

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Note that the audio quality for the 2006 and 2008 meetings (there were no recordings for the 2007 meeting) was poor and has been improved as much as possible by Podsworth Media. Audio for the 2009 meeting was better but has also been tweaked a bit by Podsworth. The audio quality improves significantly starting with the 2010 meeting.

See also From the Malthusian Trap to the Industrial Revolution: An Explanation of Social Evolution (PFS 2009):

Professor Hoppe’s chapter, “From the Malthusian Trap to the Industrial Revolution: An Explanation of Social Evolution,” in both The Great Fiction, and in A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline, was initially presented in 2009 at the Property and Freedom Society. (Earlier version in print here.)

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 040.

This lecture is from the 2009 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “On Good (Commodity) Credit and Bad (Fiduciary Credit). Experiences of a Former Banker,” Doug French (USA). PFS 2009 Playlist.

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Note that the audio quality for the 2006 and 2008 meetings (there were no recordings for the 2007 meeting) was poor and has been improved as much as possible by Podsworth Media. Audio for the 2009 meeting was better but has also been tweaked a bit by Podsworth. The audio quality improves significantly starting with the 2010 meeting.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 039.

This lecture is from the 2009 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “The Great Crash of 2009: Causes and Consequences,” Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France). PFS 2009 Playlist.

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Note that the audio quality for the 2006 and 2008 meetings (there were no recordings for the 2007 meeting) was poor and has been improved as much as possible by Podsworth Media. Audio for the 2009 meeting was better but has also been tweaked a bit by Podsworth. The audio quality improves significantly starting with the 2010 meeting.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 038.

This lecture is from the 2009 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “The Unholy Alliance: State and Central Bank. American Experiences,” by Thomas DiLorenzo (USA). PFS 2009 Playlist.

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Note that the audio quality for the 2006 and 2008 meetings (there were no recordings for the 2007 meeting) was poor and has been improved as much as possible by Podsworth Media. Audio for the 2009 meeting was better but has also been tweaked a bit by Podsworth. The audio quality improves significantly starting with the 2010 meeting.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 037.

This panel discussion is from the 2009 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “Discussion, Q&A,” by Mustafa Akyol (Turkey) & Peter Mentzel (USA). PFS 2009 Playlist.

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Note that the audio quality for the 2006 and 2008 meetings (there were no recordings for the 2007 meeting) was poor and has been improved as much as possible by Podsworth Media. Audio for the 2009 meeting was better but has also been tweaked a bit by Podsworth. The audio quality improves significantly starting with the 2010 meeting.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 036.

This lecture is from the 2009 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “Conflict Arbitration in a Multi-Legal System: The Case of the Ottoman Empire,” Peter Mentzel (USA). PFS 2009 Playlist.

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Note that the audio quality for the 2006 and 2008 meetings (there were no recordings for the 2007 meeting) was poor and has been improved as much as possible by Podsworth Media. Audio for the 2009 meeting was better but has also been tweaked a bit by Podsworth. The audio quality improves significantly starting with the 2010 meeting.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 035.

This lecture is from the 2009 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “Kemalism and its French Connection,” by Mustafa Akyol (Turkey). PFS 2009 Playlist.

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Note that the audio quality for the 2006 and 2008 meetings (there were no recordings for the 2007 meeting) was poor and has been improved as much as possible by Podsworth Media. Audio for the 2009 meeting was better but has also been tweaked a bit by Podsworth. The audio quality improves significantly starting with the 2010 meeting.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 034.

This panel discussion is from the 2009 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “Discussion, Q&A,” by Steve Farron (USA), Paul Gottfried (USA), Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England), Robert Higgs (USA/Mexico) & Steve Sailer (USA). PFS 2009 Playlist.

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Note that the audio quality for the 2006 and 2008 meetings (there were no recordings for the 2007 meeting) was poor and has been improved as much as possible by Podsworth Media. Audio for the 2009 meeting was better but has also been tweaked a bit by Podsworth. The audio quality improves significantly starting with the 2010 meeting.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 033.

This lecture is from the 2009 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “The Costs of the American Empire,” by Robert Higgs (USA/Mexico). PFS 2009 Playlist.

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Note that the audio quality for the 2006 and 2008 meetings (there were no recordings for the 2007 meeting) was poor and has been improved as much as possible by Podsworth Media. Audio for the 2009 meeting was better but has also been tweaked a bit by Podsworth. The audio quality improves significantly starting with the 2010 meeting.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 032.

This panel discussion is from the 2009 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: “Discussion, Q&A,” by Peter Duesberg (USA/Germany). PFS 2009 Playlist.

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Note that the audio quality for the 2006 and 2008 meetings (there were no recordings for the 2007 meeting) was poor and has been improved as much as possible by Podsworth Media. Audio for the 2009 meeting was better but has also been tweaked a bit by Podsworth. The audio quality improves significantly starting with the 2010 meeting.