See https://propertyandfreedom.org/paf-podcast/pfp119-tooley-us-middle-east-pfs-2014
See https://propertyandfreedom.org/paf-podcast/pfp122-louw-unequal-struggle-against-inequality-despicable-aspects-socialist-mentality-pfs-2014
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.
Media for the talks listed below can be found at the PFS 2015 Youtube playlist. Audio is available at the Property and Freedom Podcast.
The finalized list of speakers and topics for the 2015 meeting follows below, with links to the video of the speeches.
See:
- Sean Gabb, “Notes on the Eighth PFS Conference in Bodrum, 19th-24th September 2013,” 21 September, 2015
Final Program Schedule
Thursday, September 10 arrivals and registration
Reception and dinner (pool area) 19:30-23:00
Friday, September 11
8:00-10:00 Breakfast
10:30 Program begins (Hotel Conference Center)
10:30-10:45 Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Welcome and Introductions
10:45-12:15 Roundtable Discussion and Q & A: Memories: Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) as Mentor and Teacher, Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Thomas DiLorenzo (USA), Doug French (USA), Lee Iglody (USA)
13:00-14:15 Lunch
14:30-15:00 Thomas DiLorenzo (USA), On American Exceptionalism
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-15:45 Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), The Lebanon – A Switzerland of the Near East?
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:45 DiLorenzo, Taghizadegan, Gabb, Hoppe, Discussion on Current Affairs, Q & A
16:45-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-17:30 Hans-Hermann Hoppe & Gülcin Imre Hoppe, 2006–2015: PFS, Now and Then
17:30-18:00 Sean Gabb (England), 10 Years of PFS
19:30-22:30 Dinner and Turkish Night at the Hotel
Saturday, September 12
8:00-9:45 Breakfast
10:00-10:30 Deanna Forbush (USA), America’s Violent Labor Unions
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:15 Enrico Colombatto (Italy), Università degli Studi di Torino, Mario Draghi and his Friends (no video)
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30:12:00 Andrew Shuen (Lion Rock, Hong Kong), China, the US, the Renminbi, the $, and Hong Kong
13:00-14:15 Lunch
14:30-15:00 Thorsten Polleit (Germany), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Inflation
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-15:45 Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France), The Culture of Inflation
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:45 Forbush, Colombatto, Shuen, Polleit, Huelsmann, Discussion, Q&A
17:30-17:50 Group Photo in Hotel Lobby
18:00 Departure from the hotel lobby to the fishing village of Yalikavak
18:30-22:00 Reception and Dinner at the beach
Sunday, September 13
8:00-9:45 Breakfast
10:00-10:30 Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England), Murderers I Knew
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:15 Frank Van Dun (Belgium), On the Philosophical Foundations of Libertarianism
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 David Dürr (Switzerland), Private Law Society: Answering some of the “Difficult” Questions
13:00-14:15 Lunch
15:00-15:30 Stephan Kinsella (USA), On Life without Patents and Copyright: Or, But Who Would Pick The Cotton?
15:30-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-16:45 Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy, De-Civilization, and Counterculture
16:45-17:00 Coffee Break
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]
For further information, see:
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- PFS, History and Principles
- Hoppe, The Property And Freedom Society—Reflections After Five Years, The Libertarian Standard (June 10, 2010)
- Hoppe, The Role of the Property and Freedom Society in a Crazy World (May 21, 2009, Property and Freedom Society 2009 Annual Meeting Introductory Speech, Bodrum, Turkey)
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe & Gulcin Imre Hoppe, 2006–2015: PFS, Now and Then
- Sean Gabb, 10 Years of PFS
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PFS 2010 – Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Welcoming Remarks. The PFS – After Five Years
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For further information about the PFS and its previous meetings, see the Press & Offsite Material page, and various articles such as:
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- Kinsella, “Property, Freedom, and Defiance: The PFS Returns” (Oct. 1, 2021)
- Sean Gabb: The Inaugural Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: An Incidental Record, Free Life Commentary, Issue Number 148 (June 14 2006)
- Doug French: Hoppean Property and Freedom, LewRockwell.com (June 21st 2006)
- Rahim Taghizadegan: Report on the second PFS conference in Bodrum [local copy], liberty.li (June 4th 2007; in German)
- Stephan Kinsella: “Bodrum Days and Nights: The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: A Partial Report,” The Libertarian Standard (June 16, 2010)
- Sean Gabb: “Reflections on the 2010 Conference of the Property and Freedom Society,” Free Life Commentary, Issue Number 194 (June 17, 2010)
- Andy Duncan: “Outside the Asylum: Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, Turkey, 2011,” Cobden Centre (June 8, 2011; republished as “A Few Days outside the Asylum,” Mises Daily, June 15, 2011)
- Sean Gabb: “The Third Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, May 2008: A Brief Record,” Free Life Commentary No. 173 (July 4, 2008)
- Sean Ring: The Chief Event (Oct. 4, 2012)
- Andy Duncan: Inside the conspiracy: Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, Turkey, 2012 (Oct. 3, 2012)
- Doug French on PFS 2012: The World’s Greatest Haircut (Oct. 2, 2012)
- Jeff Tucker on PFS 2012: The Center of the Conspiracy (Sep. 29, 2012)
- X: The Only Conference Worth Attending: A Personal Account of the 11th Conference of the Property & Freedom Society (Sept. 10, 2016)
- Gabb: Notes from the Eleventh [2016] Conference of the Property and Freedom Society (Sept. 7, 2016)
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 first report on the 2014 meeting is already published: Libertären-Treffen in der TürkeiStaat? Nein Danke! For reports on earlier meetings, see this page.
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.
Q&A Day 3 from Property & Freedom Society on Vimeo.
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.
Day 2 Q&A from Property & Freedom Society on Vimeo.
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.
Q&A Day 1 from Property & Freedom Society on Vimeo.
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.
Jared Taylor, “A Brief History of US Race Relations” from Property & Freedom Society on Vimeo.
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.
Richard Lynn, “Why Are the Jews So Smart?” from Property & Freedom Society on Vimeo.
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.
Norman Stone, “World War II Revisited” from Property & Freedom Society on Vimeo.
Robert Nef’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.
Robert Nef, “Understanding Switzerland and the Swiss” from Property & Freedom Society on Vimeo.
Sean Gabb’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.
Sean Gabb, “Understanding England and the English” from Property & Freedom Society on Vimeo.
Thorsten Polleit’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.
Thorsten Polleit, “Organized Crime & The Progressions Towards A Single World Fiat Currency from Property & Freedom Society on Vimeo.
Nikolay Gertchev’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.
Nikolay Gertchev, “Entrepreneurship and Betting: What, If Anything Can Businessmen Learn From Betting Odds?” from Property & Freedom Society on Vimeo.
Paul Cantor’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.
Paul Cantor from Property & Freedom Society on Vimeo.
Anthony Daniels’s (Theodore Dalrymple) 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.
Update: KOL100 | The Role of the Corporation and Limited Liability In a Free Society (PFS 2013)
Stephan Kinsella’s speech for the 2013 Annual Meeting is now available (see below).
Kinsella’s talk is podcast on the Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 100. The video and slides are below. I will post the Q&A panel later, which contains several interchanges between me and Sean Gabb about this issue. See also Sean Gabb’s article Stephan Kinsella on Limited Liability: Notes of a Speech Made to the 2013 Meeting in Bodrum of the Property and Freedom Society, to which I intend to reply at a later time.
For background, see:
- Kinsella, Corporate Personhood, Limited Liability, and Double Taxation; In Defense of the Corporation
- Robert Hessen, In Defense of the Corporation (Hoover 1978)
- Firms: google various recent Mises University lectures by Peter Klein on the theory of the firm
- Yaron Brook, “The Corporation” (Ayn Rand Institute, 2007)
Stephan Kinsella, “The Role of the Corporation and Limited Liability In a Free Society” from Property & Freedom Society on Vimeo.
And for a special treat, a video of Professor Hoppe making schnitzel at the 2013 Annual Meeting (on the PFS Youtube channel).
For video of the speeches delivered, see the links in the Program, or the PFS Vimeo channel. Other speeches will be uploaded presently.
The 2014 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society was held from Thursday, September 11, 2014 (date of arrival) to Tuesday, September 16, 2014 (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.
The final list of speakers and topics is provided below (see the PFS 2014 YouTube Playlist). Audio is available at the Property and Freedom Podcast.
Final Program Schedule
Thursday, September 11 arrivals and registration
Reception and dinner (pool area) 19:30-23:00
Friday, September 12
8:00-9:45 Breakfast
10:00 Program begins (Hotel Conference Center)
10:00-10:15 Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Welcome and Introductions
10:15-10:45 Richard Lynn (England), 100 Years of IQ Research
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Paul Gottfried (USA), The Influence of the Jewish Lobby on US Policy
11:30-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-12:15 Hunt Tooley (USA), The US and the Middle East
13:00-14:30 Lunch
15:00-15:30 Carlos Gebauer (Germany), The Germans – Scattered Souls Dissolving into Irrelevance
15:30-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-16:15 Olivier Richard (Switzerland), From France to the US, to GB, to Switzerland, to Thailand. Experiences of a Reluctant Taxpayer
16:15-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:15 Lynn, Gottfried, Tooley, Gebauer, Richard, Discussion, Q & A
19:30-22:30 Dinner and Turkish Night at the Hotel
Saturday, September 13
8:00-9:45 Breakfast
10:00-10:30 Sean Gabb (England), Enoch Powell. The Man and his Politics
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:15 Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England), Freud: Apostle of Freedom or Apostle of Enslavement?
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30:12:00 Leon Louw (South Africa), The Unequal Struggle Against Inequality. Despicable Aspects of the Socialist Mentality
13:00-14:15 Lunch
14:30-15:00 Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France), Fiat Money and “Wealth”
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-15:45 Doug French (USA), The “Independence” of the Central Bank
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:45 Gabb, Daniels, Louw, Huelsmann, French, Discusssion, Q & A
17:30-17:50 Group Photo in Hotel Lobby
18:00 Departure from the hotel lobby to the fishing village of Yalikavak
18:30-22:00 Reception and Dinner at the beach
Sunday, September 14
8:00-9:45 Breakfast
10:00-10:30 Marco Bassani (Italy), The Libertarian Idea of Community
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:15 Carel Boshoff† (South Africa), The Afrikaner Community of Orania as an Experiment
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 Gerard Casey (Ireland), Begotten, not Made: Law, Order and Community
13:00-14:15 Lunch
14:30-15:00 Thorsten Polleit (Germany), The New Socialist Destructionism
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-15:45 Ben O’Neill (Australia), A Critique of the Anti-Discrimination Paradigm
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Realistic Libertarianism as Right-Libertarianism
17:00-17:15 Coffee Break
17:15-18:00 Bassani, Boshoff, Casey, Polleit, O’Neill, Hoppe, Discussion, Q & A
18:00-18:15 Coffee Break
18:15-18:30 Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Concluding Remarks and Announcements
20:00-23:00 Gala Reception, Dinner, and Entertainment at the Hotel
The pictures for the 2013 Annual Meeting of the PFS are available here and below. Media for speeches are in the process of being uploaded, and will be linked in the Program and available in the PFS Vimeo channel.
The 2013 Annual Meeting has just concluded; it was a huge success. Best I’ve ever been to, and that’s saying a lot (for reports on earlier meetings, see this page). The final programme is repixeled below. Media of the proceedings will be released in due course.
The speakers and topics for the 2013 meeting are listed below. Media for these presentations will be posted in due course.
From HansHoppe.com.
The Brazilian Philosophy Magazine Dicta & Contradicta Interviews Hans-Hermann Hoppe
by STEPHAN KINSELLA on AUGUST 1, 2013[EDIT]
The Brazilian Philosophy Magazine Dicta & Contradicta Interviews Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Would the change from a statist to a libertarian society help or hinder the production of high culture?
Hoppe: A libertarian society would be significantly more prosperous and wealthy and this would certainly help both low and high culture. But a free society – a society without taxes and tax-subsidies and without so-called “intellectual property rights” – would produce a very differentculture, with a very different set of products, producers, stars and failures.
You see a causal link between a society’s form of government and its moral values and social development. Do you see a similar link between type of government and aesthetic standards and quality of art and entertainment?
Hoppe: Yes I do. Democratic state government systematically promotes egalitarianism and relativism. In the field of human interaction, it leads to the subversion and ultimately disappearance of the idea of eternal and universal principles of justice. Law is swamped and submerged by legislation. In the field of the arts and of aesthetic judgment, democracy leads to the subversion and ultimately disappearance of the notion of beautyand universal standards of beauty. Beauty is swamped and submerged by so-called “modern art.” [click to continue…]
Prof. Hoppe spoke (in German) on the topic “On Taxes and Parasites,” at the occasion of the inaugural conference of the Ludwig von Mises Institut Deutschland, held at Hotel Bayerischer Hof, in Munich, on June 15, 2013.
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