Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe despre impracticabilitatea unui Stat mondial şi despre eşecul democraţiilor de tip vestic, the Romanian translation of “Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the Impracticality of One-World Government and the Failure of Western-style Democracy,” The Daily Bell (Mar. 27, 2011), has just been published.
Professor Hoppe was previously interviewed on Australian Broadcasting Corp. Radio, on the topic “Anarcho-capitalist libertarianism: What is it?” (approx. 25 minutes). It was aired on Jan. 23, 2012; audio is available here. As described on the ABC site, “What is anarcho-capitalist libertarianism? Hans Herman Hoppe explains the idea behind it and why it’s a very different and quite radical way to think about government, society and the economy.”
Paul Vahur has organized selected pictures from the 2011 meeting; they can be seen at https://plus.google.com/
UPDATE: now see PFS 2012 Annual Meeting—Speakers and Presentations
Below is the final list of speakers and topics for the Seventh Annual Meeting of the PFS, which will be held in Bodrum, Turkey at the Hotel Karia Princess, from Thursday September 27 through Monday October 1, 2012. Those interested in attending should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Grözinger, Administrative Secretary, regarding conditions, availability, and requirements.
(Note: 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.)
The Final Program
Property and Freedom Society
7th Annual Meeting
September 27 – October 2, 2012
Bodrum, Turkey
Karia Princess Hotel
Final Program Schedule
Thursday, September 27 Arrivals and registration
19:30-23:00 Reception and dinner (pool area)
Friday, September 28
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 Andrew Duncan, Liberty through Literature
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Norman Stone, Comparative History: Turkey and Spain
11:30-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-12:15 Hunt Tooley, Engineering Tragedy: The Meaning of the CIA Coup d’Etat in Iran, 1953
12:30-14:00 Lunch
from 13:30-14:30 informal sessions
(Sean Ring on the Experiences of an Expatriate, and Oliver Janich on the Party of Reason)
15:00-15:30 Rahim Taghizadegan, Understanding Iran and the Iranians
15:30-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-16:15 Karl-Peter Schwarz, Between Restitution and Re-Expropriation: Desocialization in Eastern Europe
16:15-17:30 Duncan, Stone, Tooley,Taghizadegan, Schwarz & Skaskiw, Discussion, Q & A
17:45-19:15 Optional: Private Guided Tour of Bodrum Castle
19:30-22:00 Dinner
Saturday, September 29
8:00-9:45 Breakfast
10:00-10:30 Joseph Salerno, Money: Sound and Unsound
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:15 Guido Huelsmann, The State and the Gold Market
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 Thorsten Polleit, What Do Bankers Know about Money and Banking?
12:15-13:45 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Douglas French, More on “What Bankers Do and Do Not Know”
14:30-14:45 Coffee Break
14:45-16:00 Salerno, Huelsmann,Polleit, French, Hoppe, Discussion, Q & A
16:30 Group Photo in Hotel Lobby
16:45 Departure from the hotel lobby to the fishing village Kadikalesi
17:30-22:00 Reception and Dinner at the beach
& Toast to Ludwig von Mises at the occasion of his 131st birthday on September 29, 1881
Sunday, September 30
8:00-9:45 Breakfast
10:00-10:30 Stephan Kinsella, The (State’s) Corruption of (Private) Law
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:15 Anthony Daniels (Dalrymple), The Ultimate “Freedom:” Choice without Consequences
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 Jeffrey Tucker, One Million Tiny Miseries. Government Policy in Our Time
12:15-14:00 Lunch
14:30-15:00 Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Hayek Myth
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-15:45 Benjamin Marks, On H. L. Mencken as a Libertarian Model
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:15 Daniels, Kinsella, Marks, Hoppe, Tucker, Discussion, Q & A
17:15:17:30 Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Concluding Remarks, Tributes, and Announcements
19:30-23:00 Reception, Gala Dinner, Happy Birthday Ludwig, and Entertainment
Monday, October 1
8:00-9:30 Breakfast
10:00 Meet in the Hotel Lobby. Walk to the Marina
10:30-17:00 Boat Excursion. Lunch on the Boat. Swimming.
19:00-23:00 Dinner and Turkish Night at the Hotel
Tuesday, October 2
For conference attendees staying through Tuesday, a day-trip to Ephesus and the last place of residence and resting place of the Virgin Mary can be arranged. Cost per person is about 85 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 availabe for this purpose at the hotel reception desk.
The same arrangement can be made also for Monday, October 1, as an alternative to the Boat Excursion.
From my post at The Libertarian Standard:
Last year I presented four Mises Academy Mises Academy courses:
- “Rethinking Intellectual Property” (a reprise of one taught previously in 2010);
- “Libertarian Legal Theory”;
- “Libertarian Controversies”; and
- “The Social Theory of Hoppe“.
The audio and slides for the first three courses listed can be found in those links; those for the Hoppe course are appended below. The Hoppe course is discussed in my article “Read Hoppe, Then Nothing Is the Same,” translated into Spanish as “Tras leer a Hoppe, nada es lo mismo“; see also Danny Sanchez’s post Online Hoppe Course Starts Tomorrow. I enjoyed all four courses but my favorite was the Hoppe course. Hoppe has been the biggest intellectual influence of my life, as I detail in “How I Became A Libertarian” (published as “Being a Libertarian” in I Chose Liberty: Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians). I agree with Sanchez that “Hans-Hermann Hoppe is the most profound social theorist writing today.” This is one reason I worked with the brilliant Austro-libertarian theorist, and one of my best friends, Jörg Guido Hülsmann, and one of the greatest guys in the world, to produce the well-received and well-deserved festschrift, Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Mises Institute, 2009).
The experience of teaching the Mises Academy classes was amazing and gratifying, as I noted in my article “Teaching an Online Mises Academy Course.” This and similar technology and Internet-enabled models are obviously the wave of the educational future. The students received an in-depth, specialized and personalized treatment of topics of interest to them, with tests and teacher and fellow student interaction, for a very reasonable price, and judging by their comments and evaluations, they were very satisfied with the courses and this online model. For example, for the Hoppe course, as noted in A Happy Hoppean Student, student Cam Rea wrote, about the first lecture of the course:
Move over Chuck Norris, Hans-Hermann Hoppe is in town! The introduction to “The Social Theory of Hoppe” was extremely thorough. I, a relative newcomer to the Hoppean idea, was impressed by Stephan Kinsella’s introduction to the theory. Mr. Kinsella hit upon all of those who came before Hoppe, and how each built upon another over the past two centuries. In other words, as Isaac Newton stated, “If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Hoppe is the result thus far of those who came before him in the ideals of Austrian Economics and libertarian principles. Nevertheless, Hoppe takes it much further as in the Misesian concept of human action and the science of “praxeology”, from which all actions branch in life.
Overall, the class was extremely enjoyable, the questions concrete, and the answer provided by Mr. Kinsella clear and precise. Like many others in the class, I look forward to more. So tune in next Monday at 7pm EDT. Same Hoppe-time, same Hoppe-channel!
There were also rave reviews given by students of the other courses.
From Radio Free Market (also noted by Andy Duncan in his blog post Radio Free Market World Report: The End of the Mega States?). See also Skaskiw: Is the United States Too Big to Succeed?, full of interesting Hoppean insights comparing the situation in the US to that in Europe. Roman’s previous Mises Daily article, The Military Mentality, was based on his speech “‘Fighting for Freedom’ in Afghanistan: Unintended Consquences and Military Mentality. A Combat Soldier’s Report,” delivered at the PFS 2011 Annual Meeting (video). Here’s the RFM post:
* The End of the Mega States? * with Roman Skaskiw and Andy Duncan
In our latest edition of Radio Free Market World Report, I talk to Roman Skaskiw about the global secession movement and particularly how this applies to the United States and the European Union. We examine why the world’s wealthiest countries, on a per capita basis, tend to be the smallest states, and why the major exception to this general rule, the United States, managed to avoid the trend.
We discuss whether the United States itself should be saved from secession, why European countries tend to be both socialist and independent, and whether the world will move towards a global government or a global constellation of micro-states.Along the way we mention the Ukraine, Ron Paul, Texas, Belgium, Scotland, Ireland, and Iowa, and many other points in-between.Roman is a former officer in the US Army who served two full tours in Iraq and Afghanistan who runs his own libertarian website which you can find below:Much of the interview is based on a recent piece he wrote for Mises.org, which you can find here: http://mises.org/daily/5830/Is-the-United-States-Too-Big-to-Succeed
For the mp3: go to http://www.radiofreemarket.com plus /sites/default/files/WMR_Andy_Duncan_Global_Secession.mp3
Professor Hoppe was the keynote speaker at the recent, very successful Australian Mises Seminar, 25-26th November, 2011, held in a private club in the Sydney CBD. Various posts about the event, and the videos released to date (which are in 1080p HD), are linked below.
Some more reports on the seminar and related posts:
- Hoppe’s Inarticulate Australian Critics: The Hon Dr Peter Phelps, Dr Steven Kates and James Paterson, by Benjamin Marks;
- The Mises Seminar was conducted by Aussienomics, an Austrian-Australian group, Economics.org.au, Liberty Australia, and the Macquare University Libertarian League;
- The Seminar Guide at http://www.mises.org.au/
programme.pdf , or here, a beautifully produced, 108-page programme, full of nice pictures and illustrations of Mises, Rothbard, and others, inspiring quotes, and an overview of the seminar. The main reason for its length is that it contains “Pre-Seminar Reading” (A Primer on Austrian Economics by Jonathan M. Finegold Catalan; the second chapter of Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s book Economic Science and the Austrian Method, on On Praxeology and the Praxeological Foundation of Epistemology; Anatomy of the State by Murray N. Rothbard; and What Libertarianism Is by Stephan Kinsella); - A podcast by some of the organizers discussing the Seminar may be found here;
- The Mises Seminar, from Thoughts on Freedom, Australian Libertarian Society Blog;
- Where There’s Smoke, There’s Libertarians, Nickolai Hubble, The Daily Reckoning—Australia;
- My Journey to Anarchy: From political and economic agnostic to anarchocapitalist, Neville Kennard.
The two videos available so far are embedded below:
Hoppe in Sydney 2011: “The State – The Errors of Classical Liberalism”
Hoppe in Sydney 2011: “Society Without State – Private Law Society”
Hoppe in Sydney 2011 – “Politics, Money and Banking”
Dr Steven Kates on the Classical School vs the Austrian School, includes responses from Hoppe
Professor Hoppe spoke at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies on November 9, 2011. The four videos (two lectures with Q & A, one interview, and one seminar with discussion) are below:
From the blog post at Mises.ro: Video: Colocviu despre Teoria socialismului ?i a capitalismului cu Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Theory of Socialism and Capitalism after 20 years. A Colloquium with the Author from Mises Romania on Vimeo.
The author Hans-Hermann Hoppe, the translator Emanuel-Mihail Socaciu, and the former president of the Mises Institute, Dan Cristian Com?nescu, comment on the significance and ideas of “A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism”, and the legacy of the private Mises Seminar in Bucharest. The comments are followed by questions from the audience.
At the invitation of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Romania, on November 8-11, 2011, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe visited Bucharest for a series of events celebrating 130 years since the birth of Ludwig von Mises and 10 years since the foundation of the Romanian Mises Institute.
Videos below:
Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Theory of Socialism and Capitalism after 20 years. A Colloquium with the Author
Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Theory of Socialism and Capitalism after 20 years. A Colloquium with the Author from Mises Romania on Vimeo.
On Politics, Money, and Banking
On Politics, Money, and Banking (Hans-Hermann Hoppe) from Mises Romania on Vimeo.
Entrepreneurship with Fiat Property and Fiat Money
History, Natural Elites, and State Elites. An Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Hans-Hermann Hoppe gives a speech on Entrepreneurship with Fiat Property and Fiat Money in the Aula Magna of the Romanian-American University in Bucharest, and answers questions from the audience.
At the invitation of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Romania, on November 8-11, 2011, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe visited Bucharest for a series of events celebrating 130 years since the birth of Ludwig von Mises and 10 years since the foundation of the Romanian Mises Institute.
History, Natural Elites, and State Elites. An Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe from Mises Romania on Vimeo.
Entrepreneurship with Fiat Property and Fiat Money (Hans-Hermann Hoppe) from Mises Romania on Vimeo.
PFS member Roman Skaskiw has an interesting article up on Mises Daily today: Is the United States Too Big to Succeed?, full of interesting Hoppean insights comparing the situation in the US to that in Europe.
Roman’s previous Mises Daily article, The Military Mentality, was based on his speech “‘Fighting for Freedom’ in Afghanistan: Unintended Consquences and Military Mentality. A Combat Soldier’s Report,” delivered at the PFS 2011 Annual Meeting (video).
There is a very interesting five part interview (a sixth part is forthcoming), Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part V – Dark Realities (see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4). It’s by Andrew Dittmer, who recently finished his PhD in mathematics at Harvard. Dittmer extensively quotes Hoppe’s writing from his Democracy book in this interview.
Update: Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part VI – Certainty.
The video of my Moscow IP speech is now available on YouTube, as I noted at C4SIF.org:
“Why ‘Intellectual Property’ is not Genuine Property,” Adam Smith Forum, Moscow
by Stephan Kinsella on November 15, 2011
As I noted in a previous post, the 3rd Adam Smith Forum was held earlier this month (Nov. 12, 2011) in Moscow. This event was organized by the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, the Libertarian Party of Russia, and others. The Chairman of the ASF Steering Committee was economist Pavel Usanov, head of the Hayek Institute for Economy and Law, and Andrey Shal’nev, head of the federal committee of the Libertarian Party of Russia, was its co-chairman. I was invited to speak but could not attend in person, so my 47-minute speech “Why Intellectual Property is not Genuine Property” was presented remotely, with Russian subtitles. It is below, along with the original version and the English transcript plus the Russian translation, which was prepared by Maxim Tulenin, head of the Moscow branch of the Libertarian Party of Russia.
Professor Hoppe’s article, “Entrepreneurship With Fiat Property and Fiat Money,” was published today on LewRockwell.com, and is based on a speech first delivered at the Edelweiss Holdings Symposion held in Zuerich, Switzerland, on September 17, 2011.
Professor Hoppe’s article, Social Democratic Hayek: An Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe by Mateusz Machaj, previously published in Polish as Socjaldemokratyczny Hayek, has been translated into Swedish as Intervju med Hans-Hermann Hoppe om Hayek, Mises Sweden, Oct. 13 2011.
Related articles by Professor Hoppe include: “Why Mises (and not Hayek)?“, Mises Daily (Oct. 10, 2011) and F.A. Hayek on Government and Social Evolution: A Critique, Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 7 Num. 1 (1994)
Professor Hoppe’s article, Why the State Demands Control of Money, was published in Mises Daily today. It is based on a speech delivered at the Mises Institute Supporters meeting, September 19-23, 2011, Vienna, Austria. The piece revisits issues discussed in his article Banking, Nation States and International Politics: A Sociological Reconstruction of the Present Economic Order, which also appears as Ch. 3 of his The Economics and Ethics of Private Property.
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