The 2021 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society will be held from Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021 (arrivals) to Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021 (departures), in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess. Those interested in attending future meetings should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements. For information about the 2019 Annual Meeting, or previous meetings, see here.
The list of speakers for the 2021 Annual Meeting follows:
Final Program Schedule
Thursday, September 16, 2021 arrivals and registration
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Welcome and Introductions
Tim Haffner (United States/Japan): Japan’s first Samurai. Rebellion against Monopoly Justice
We are sorry to announce that, due to current events related to the Covid-19 pandemic and the world response to it, PFS 2020, originally scheduled for Sept. 2020, will be canceled. This will be the first meeting skipped since the inaugural meeting in 2006. Obviously, this was a difficult decision to make but events made this choice unavoidable. We will resume in September 2021 and wish all of our friends and colleagues good health and good fortune in the upcoming months.
[UPDATE: as noted here, the 2020 meeting has been CANCELED]
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The 2020 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society will be held from Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020 (arrivals) to Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020 (departures), in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess. Those interested in attending future meetings should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements. For information about the 2019 Annual Meeting, or previous meetings, see here.
The initial list of speakers for the 2020 Annual Meeting follows. Topics and details will be added in due course: [continue reading…]
In 1997, he retired from Oxford and moved to Turkey where he also taught, eventually publishing Turkey: A Short History. I do not think he was exactly a libertarian but Hans somehow discovered him and invited him to PFS for the first time in 2011, I believe, and he became a regular speaker, always delivering interesting, informed speeches in him husky-voiced, charming Scottish accent. I personally had many hours of fascinating, one on one, in depth conversation with Norman over the years at PFS meetings. We both shared the Christian name “Norman”, and I recall one time when chatting with him after not having seen him for a few years, I tried to remind him who I was, and he said, a twinkle in his eye, with his Scottish accent, “Oh, I know who you are,” and he reminded me of conversations we’d had at previous meetings. He was truly brilliant, refined, kind, and a classy gentleman. I was greatly fond of him and he, I think, a little, of me. I’ll miss him. My impression was he really enjoyed his several trips to Bodrum for our crazy libertarian meetings and felt at home there. Kudos to Professor Hoppe for introducing him to our set.
Norman Stone, PFS 2013, with Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Richard Lynn, Stephan Kinsella, and Jared Taylor
Pasted below is a 2007 tribute by Harry Mount published yesterday in The Spectator.
The 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society was recently held from Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019 to Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess.
Information about the 2020 Annual Meeting, to be held in September 2020, will be released presently [update: the 2020 meeting was canceled due to state-created covid-related chaos]. Those interested in attending future meetings should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Thomas Jacob ([email protected]) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements.
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."
(A more complete statement of our Principles can be found here.)
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