A friend alerted me to this excellent 10-part lecture series by Professors Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Guido Hülsmann, presented in Denmark in 2005, which may be of interest to our members and others.
An Open Letter to Walter E. Block
Breaking up with a person you have known for more than thirty years, with whom you have participated in countless conferences and co-authored a couple of articles, even if only in the somewhat distant past, is nothing done lightly. It is even harder, if one shares with this person a common standing as a public intellectual and both our names are mentioned frequently in one breath as prominent students of the same teacher, Murray N. Rothbard, and as leading intellectual lights of the modern libertarian movement founded by Rothbard.
But then: in this position, it becomes near-imperative to always stay on guard and take notice if a person closely associated with your own name goes astray and falls into serious error, and you may be compelled to publicly distance and dis-associate yourself from this person in order to protect your own personal and intellectual reputation (along with Rothbard’s and that of the entire libertarian intellectual edifice). Such is the case with Walter Block.
Read more at Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “An Open Letter to Walter E. Block,” LewRockwell.com (Jan. 31, 2024). There are already Portuguese and Spanish translations available. Also published as “An Open Letter to Walter E. Block,” Mises Wire (Feb. 1, 2024).
For related material, see Kinsella, Ammous vs. Block on Israel.
Longtime PFS member Doug French (see his various articles about previous PFS meetings here) has updated and expanded his work Early Speculative Bubbles & Increases In The Supply of Money. It should be available in early March. From the Amazon description:
Dive into the Untold Story of Historical Bubbles: Discover the Monetary Secrets Behind World’s Greatest Economic Mysteries.
For the discerning reader with a passion for economic history, Early Speculative Bubbles & Increases In The Supply of Money: 4th Expanded Edition opens the vault to the past’s most captivating financial enigmas. Douglas E. French masterfully charts a course through history’s turbulent monetary waters, revealing the underlying currents that drove the world’s most talked-about economic bubbles. [continue reading…]
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 269.
This panel discusssion is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Doug French (USA), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Josef Šíma (Czech Republic), Olivier Richard (Switzerland), Stephan Kinsella (USA), “Discussion, Q&A.”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 268.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey): “On Centralization, Secession and the Problem of Self-Defense.”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 266.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Doug French (USA): “The Financial Newsletter Racket”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 265.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Stephan Kinsella (USA), “There Ain’t No Intellectual Property: The Personal Story of a Discovery” (also podcast as KOL420).
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 264.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Olivier Richard (Switzerland): “Is Mankind Getting Dumber? Some Empirical Evidence.”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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The 2024 (Eighteenth) Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society was held from Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024 (arrivals) to Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024 (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),
The list of speakers and topics for the 2024 Annual Meeting follows. The presentations and panels below may be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist and will be released in forthcoming weeks on the Property and Freedom Podcast. [continue reading…]
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 263.
This panel discussion is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Thorsten Polleit (Germany), David Dürr (Switzerland), Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria),Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France), “Discussion, Q&A.”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 262.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), “Competition as a Cover-Up Procedure.”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 261.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
David Dürr (Switzerland): “Swiss Confederation 2023: The Last 25 Years Ahead.”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 260.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France): “Private Philanthropy As a Competitor of the Welfare State.”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 259.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Thorsten Polleit (Germany): “The Economics of The “Great Reset”: Getting To The Truth.” Dr. Polleit has also posted his own audio as well as the text of his speech (soundcloud; text).
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 258.
This panel discussion is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Alessandro Fusillo (Italy), Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England/France), “Discussion, Q&A.”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Turkey Is Sustaining Major Inflation. Something Has to Give
by Doug French
Mises Wire, Nov. 1, 2023
Bloomberg reports that price inflation in Turkey was more than 60 percent in September. The 61.5 percent reading was released by the Turkish government’s statistical office. Being on the ground in Turkey for Hans-Hermann and Gülçin Hoppe’s Property and Freedom Society meeting, I can say the vibe was not hyperinflationary. The shelves are not empty and the port city of Bodrum is booming. Professor Hoppe told the crowd Bodrum has grown from a population of fifty thousand to a million for the whole peninsula. No matter the destruction to the Turkish lira, money keeps pouring into peninsula real estate, watercraft, and businesses.
For Doug’s previous articles about PFS and Turkey, see
- Doug French, “The Turkish Way,” Mises Wire (Oct. 11, 2022)
- Doug French on PFS 2012: The World’s Greatest Haircut (Oct. 2, 2012)
- Doug French, The Beauty of Trade at the Grand Bazaar, Mises Wire (June 14, 2011)
- June 21st 2006: Hoppean Property and Freedom by Doug French, LewRockwell.com
- May 30th 2006: Hoppe Talks Turkey, by Doug French, LewRockwell.com
See also other pieces about the PFS here.
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