Thorsten Polleit’s speech for the 2012 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 from Property & Freedom Society on Vimeo.

Update: see Andy Duncan GoldMoney interview: Thorsten Polleit discusses “collective corruption”

Anthony Daniel’s speech for the 2012 Annual Meeting is now available:

Anthony Daniels, “The Ultimate Freedom, Choice Without Consequences”, PFS 2012 from Property & Freedom Society on Vimeo.

Hans Hoppe’s speech for the 2012 Annual Meeting is now available:

PFP101 | Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Hayek Myth (PFS 2012)

Cross-posted from HansHoppe.com:

“Ludwig von Mises und der Liberalismus”

by JAY BAYKAL on NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Doug French’s speech for the 2012 Annual Meeting is now available:

Douglas French, “What Bankers Do & Do Not Know”, PFS 2012 from Property & Freedom Society on Vimeo.

From Joakim Fagerström  on Mises Sweden, an interview he conducted at the  7th Annual Meeting of the PFS:

Doug French is Senior Editor at Laissez Faire Club and served as the president at the Mises Institute for many years. Doug received his master degree under the direction of Murray N. Rothbard at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas after many years in the business of banking.

Doug is one of the reasons why the Mises Institute has expanded so much over the years. He has not only achieved a lot in his life but he is also a true inspiration for other people. Doug knows how to build great teams to achieve results. He is always humble and ready to share his knowledge. As an example he spent an evening sharing his knowledge on PFS with younger think thanks. It is truly a privilege to be able to ask and get advice from someone like Doug. The good thing with Doug is that he has experience from “real” think thanks not the kind of public policy think thanks that wants to stay close to the political power in Washington and get corrupted step by step.

Doug was also kind enough to give this interview. In this interview you will hear him talk about PFS and the plans for Laissez Fair Books which I am sure will see a fantastic growth the coming years together with Doug and Jeffrey.

You can read his latest articles at Laissez Faire Books here.

http://vimeo.com/52999676

Professor Hoppe has an article up on Mises Institut Deutschland about the founding of that Institute (Oct. 23, 2012).

This interesting article, by Joakim Fagerström and Joakim Kampe, was posted today on LewRockwell.com

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Hoppe’s Dangerous Books

by Joakim Fagerström and Joakim Kampe

A few months ago we were invited to speak at the European Students For Liberty regional conference in Stockholm. Our institute has previously written articles for ESFL and we have also delivered a webinar for them, on May 1^st on the topic The Myth of the Socialist Paradise Sweden. It was a great event with about 200 attendees and it was, to our knowledge, greatly appreciated. Thus, we were truly looking forward to speaking at a one of their conferences that was going to be held in our hometown.

The topic of the speech was “How to achieve freedom”. In the speech we were going to bring up Mises and use him as a role model in the struggle for freedom, and how you had to be uncompromising in your struggle and never water down your message in order to better suit the masses. What mattered was devotion to truth and to your principles. After all, Mises in his memoirs concludes that if there was one thing that he regretted it was that he compromised too much (Memoirs, p. 60).

As a part of our attendance at the event we were planning on selling books from many of the great authors and legends like Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Henry Hazlitt, Stephan Kinsella, Linda and Morris Tannehill and many more. Since these books are hard to get and a bit more expensive in Sweden we always try to sell them at good prices. We were granted the permission to have a table to sell the books from during the day. At this point everything was ok.

However, a few days before the event we announced at the ESFL event page that we were going to sell these books during the day and about ten minutes later we got a message from the organizers asking us to immediately remove the “Hoppe comment”. [continue reading…]

Professor Hoppe will be speaking on “Privatrechtsgesellschaft statt Staat” at the Modelhof Akademie, Nov. 23, 2012.

Westralian mining legend Ron Manners of Mannkal belongs in The Property and Freedom Society

Other entries featuring Benjamin Marks» , Property and Freedom Society»

by Benjamin Marks, Capitalism.HK and Economics.org.au editor

O fortunate age! O happy times! in which shall be made public my incomparable atchievements, worthy to be ingraved in brass, on marble sculptured, and in painting shewn, as great examples to futurity! and O! thou sage inchanter, whosoever thou may’st be, doom’d to record the wondrous story! forget not, I beseech thee, the trusty Property and Freedom Society, the firm companion of my various fate!
~ Don Quixote de la Mancha¹

Complying with Rothbard’s strict unanimity criterion, Turkey is the only modern day libertarian country. It is difficult for those who don’t speak a word of Turkish to comprehend the marvel, but I was able to get a good taste after interviewing scores of English-speakers in Turkey, all of whom were anarchocapitalist. This must be due to the diplomatic manoeuvrings and popular scheming of Turkey’s Property and Freedom Society (PFS), especially its annual meetings, with The Honourable Hans-Hermann Hoppe as host alongside his wife Gülçin as “the indispensable framework”. I was very fortunate that the 7th annual PFS meeting coincided with my recent visit to the southwest Turkish city of Bodrum.

Bodrum has so rich a history that it is even where “the father of history” Herodotus resided, and so, although I do not claim to be a professional historian, its history of historical awareness plausibly explains how it became the most libertarian country in the world today. The conference venue was the Hotel Karia Princess, which sounds like a cruise ship, and in the beginning of its history the evidence would indicate that it was a cruise ship that decided to stay put at the best location rather than travel to pick up passengers, or, more likely, to return them. The rooms were large enough for a modest harem. The food! The food was fit for a: libertarian. And the drinks! At 16 months since the last Property and Freedom Society meeting, it was a long time between drinks. And for Duncan of the U.K., Doolittle of the U.S. and De Roeck of Belgium, it looked like it was also a long time between meals. Evidently drinking like a fish has a different meaning to eating like a fish. It is very libertarian to think of progress as weight loss.

What I found most representative of PFS was a conversation I had involving the youthful Kinsella jnr. He is understandably so familiar with censoring his opinions that his father had to remind him that it is okay to speak his mind at PFS, which Hoppe proclaims a “political correctness free zone”. I think everyone struggled a little with this; jetlag was a non-issue compared with turning down our self-censorship settings. Many of us had forgotten where our self-censorship setting was, as we find it easier to just change the channel. I wonder if the popularity of sport can be explained as simply people finding somewhere where they are allowed to speak their mind and genuinely speak out in plain language against the opposition.

What I found fiercest was the very gentlemanly Karl-Peter Schwarz chastising Václav Klaus and Tyler Cowen for their opposition to returning land confiscated by governments to their rightful owners.

What I found funniest was Hoppe reading out the many functions of government that Hayek supported. Next time Hoppe delivers that speech there needs to be an intermission. But even without an intermission, or any time constraints of any sort since Hoppe wrote the schedule, even then! there was still only time for the speech to be just basically a list of where Hayek supported government.

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From VDare:

John Derbyshire On Hans-Herman Hoppe–The Last Paleolibertarian

By John Derbyshire on September 24, 2012 at 1:32am

What a menagerie we have become, here on the political Right!

Neoconservatives we all know about. They are the guys who favor restraint in taxation and regulation while being supportive of free trade, the welfare state, globalization, and the World Policemanrole. Neoconservatives are currently basking in well-funded triumph, having taken over the Republican Party.

Paleoconservatives are still with us, or at least Pat Buchanan andChronicles magazine are. They preach restraint in foreign relations,traditional values, patriotism, and the Tariff.

Somewhere in between the two lie neo-reactionaries. I can’t quite get a handle on this term, but I have been seeing it with rising frequency this past few months. Is it really possible to have a category that includes both Jonah Goldberg and the weird but brilliant Mencius Moldbug? (I am a regular reader of MM, insofar as one can be a regular reader of a blogger who sometimes goes two months between posts.)

One percipient observer sees the beginnings of an entirely new kind of conservatism, distinct from all the foregoing: a “Dark Enlightenment,” of which I am (he says) one of the fuglemen, along with the aforementioned Mencius Moldbug.

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From Sean Gabb on VDare:

Libertarianism, Conservatism, And Immigration: The Hoppe Solution

By Sean Gabb on October 21, 2012 at 12:14am

[See also John Derbyshire On Hans-Herman Hoppe—The Last Paleolibertarian]

[Peter Brimelow writes: Alas, I had to miss the recent annual meeting of Hans-Herman Hoppe’s Property and Freedom Society in Bodrum, Turkey—for my thoughts on last year’s and earlier meetings, see here. The next meeting will be heldSeptember 19-24 2013 and I encourage VDARE.com readers to go. I’m consoling myself by posting a shortened version of Sean Gabb’s contribution, “Hans-Hermann Hoppe And the Political Equivalent of Nuclear Fusion,” to the festschrift Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, edited by Jörg Guido Hülsmann and Stephan Kinsella.]

I have been invited to contribute a chapter to this book of appreciations of Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Now, he is a person of forbidding achievements. He has made important contributions toeconomics, to political theory, to law, and to epistemology, among much else. He is also a person of much organizational ability, and the conferences he runs at Bodrum for his Property and Freedom Society have rapidly established themselves as one of the high points in the libertarian calendar.

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Smiling in Bodrum By Michael J. McKay

“Why are you smiling?”

My friend asked me this as our van accelerated away on our departure from Bodrum, Turkey.

I was unable to answer him, frankly, because I had stopped noticing. I guess I had been smiling permanently since my arrival at the Property and Freedom Society conference six days earlier.

Last year, my dear friend and blogger-colleague, Andy Duncan, wrote an excellent article entitled “A Few Days Outside the Asylum”. This beautifully summarized how wonderful and special the annual PFS Conference becomes to its attendees. Andy is a far better writer than I am and everyone would be served to read (or re-read) his wonderful article, which you can find here.

Why would anyone want to travel to Turkey and endure such cost and trouble, just to hear a few days of lectures that will be posted for free viewing on the Internet, anyway?

Ah, but that is only one of the pearls of distributed wisdom that one receives in Bodrum.

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Professor’s Hoppe’s Economic Science and the Austrian Method has been translated into Spanish, as “La ciencia económica y el método austriaco” [PDF] by Dante Bayona. It should be available soon for purchase in paper form on Amazon.

The Eighth Annual Meeting of the PFS will be held from Thursday, September 19, to Tuesday, September 24, 2013, in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess. Those interested in attending should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Grözinger, Administrative Secretary, regarding conditions, availability, and requirements.

The Seventh Annual Meeting of the PFS was held in Bodrum, Turkey, from Thursday September 27 through Monday October 1, 2012. The list of speakers and topics may be found here. Audio and video of the presentations will be available presently. The list of speakers for the Sixth Annual Meeting (May 26-30, 2011) may be found in the Program; video of the presentations are available here.