The 2015 AnnualMeeting has just concluded. The final list of speakers and program may be found here. Media of the proceedings will be released in due course.
The 2016 Annual Meeting of the PFS will be held from Thursday, September 1, 2016, to Tuesday, September 6, 2016, in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess. (N.B. the meeting will be held slightly earlier than in recent years, in order not to conflict with a major moving Muslim holiday.) Those interested in attending should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Jay Baykal ([email protected]) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements. Information about the speakers and topics for the 2016meeting will be released in due course.
The Tenth Annual Meeting of the PFS has just concluded—the most spectacular PFS Annual Meeting to-date. Video of the lectures, photographs, and information about the PFS 2016 Annual Meeting will be provided presently.
Here is the program and list of speakers for the Tenth Annual Meeting. Information about the 2016 meeting will be available in due course.
Łukasz Dominiak is an adjunct scholar at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland, and a student of political philosophy. His research as a Summer Fellow at the Mises Institute involves the cultural aspects of a libertarian legal system, with an emphasis on the works of Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Thorsten Polleit’s speech for the 2014 Annual Meeting is now available (see below). For others, see the links in the Program, or the PFS YouTube channel. Other speeches will be uploaded presently.
Gerard Casey’s speech for the 2014 Annual Meeting is now available (see below). For others, see the links in the Program, or the PFS YouTube channel. Other speeches will be uploaded presently.
Sean Gabb’s speech for the 2014 Annual Meeting is now available (see below). For others, see the links in the Program, or the PFS YouTube channel. Other speeches will be uploaded presently.
The 2015 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society was held from Thursday, September 10, 2015 (date of arrival) to Tuesday, September 15, 2015 (date of departure), in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess.
Those interested in attending future meetings should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Thomas Jacob ([email protected]) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements.
17:00-18:00 Hoppe, Dürr, Kinsella, van Dun, Daniels, Discussion, Q&A
18:00-18:15 Coffee Break
18:15-18:30 Hans-Hermann Hoppe(Germany/Turkey), Concluding Remarks and Announcements
20:00-23:00 Gala Reception, Dinner, and Entertainment at the Hote
Monday, September 14
8:00-9:30 Breakfast
10:00 Meet in the Hotel Lobby. Walk to the Marina
10:30-17:00 Guelet Boat Excursion. Lunch on the Boat. Swimming.
19:00-23:00 Dinner and Entertainment at the Hotel
Tuesday, September 15 Departure
For conference attendees staying through Tuesday, a day-trip to Ephesus and the last residence of the Virgin Mary can be arranged. Cost per person is about 60 Euro (which includes transportation, entrance fees, professional guide, plus lunch). Please indicate as soon as possibe if you are interested in such an excursion. There will be a list made available for this purpose at the hotel reception desk.
The same arrangement can be made also for Monday, September 14, as an alternative to the Boat Excursion.
Other trips can be arranged by the hotel as well.
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Speakers and topics for the 2014 Annual Meeting may be found here. Information on previous meetings may be found here.
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The Property and Freedom Society (Facebook page) 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]
The 2014 Annual Meeting has just concluded. The final list of speakers and program may be found here. Media of the proceedings will be released in due course.
The Tenth Anniversary meeting of the PFS will be held from Thursday, September 10, 2015, to Tuesday, September 15, 2015, in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess. Those interested in attending should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Jay Baykal ([email protected]), Administrative Secretary, regarding conditions, availability, and requirements. Information about the speakers and topics for the 2015 meeting will be released in due course.
This is the Q&A panel for Day 3 of the 2013 Annual Meeting. For others, see the links in the Program, or the PFS Vimeo channel. This day’s panel featured Richard Lynn, Jared Taylor, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Norman Stone, and Stephan Kinsella.
This is the Q&A panel for Day 2 of the 2013 Annual Meeting. For others, see the links in the Program, or the PFS Vimeo channel. Other speeches will be uploaded in due course. This day’s panel featured Eugen Schulak, Sean Gabb, Robert Nef, and Anthony Daniels.
This is the Q&A panel for Day 1 of the 2013 Annual Meeting. For others, see the links in the Program, or the PFS Vimeo channel. Other speeches will be uploaded in due course. This day’s panel features David Howden, Mateusz Machaj, Nikolay Gertchev, Thorsten Polleit, and Paul Cantor.
Jared Taylor’s speech for the 2013 Annual Meeting is now available (see below). For others, see the links in the Program, or the PFS Vimeo channel. Other speeches will be uploaded presently.
Richard Lynn’s speech for the 2013 Annual Meeting is now available (see below). For others, see the links in the Program, or the PFS Vimeo channel. Other speeches will be uploaded presently.
Norman Stone’s speech for the 2013 Annual Meeting is now available (see below). For others, see the links in the Program, or the PFS Vimeo channel. Other speeches will be uploaded presently.
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.” — FrédéricBastiat
“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."
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