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
See also other pieces about the PFS here.
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 257.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England/France): “History and Free Will: the Effect of Historiography on Our Psychology”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 256.
Long-time PFS speaker Sean Gabb (England) was slated to deliver “The Institution of Ancient Slavery” at the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the PFS, Bodrum, Turkey (Sep. 21–26, 2023). He was unable to attend but has submitted a video of the lecture (below). We include this in the podcast feed in the order it was slated to apepar.
Slides: Gabb pfs 2023 Slavery in the Roman World.
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 255.
This talk is from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023.
Alessandro Fusillo (Italy): “The State of Emergency: The government’s Illegal Tool of Domination.”
Other talks to follow in due course.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 254.
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), “The War in the Ukraine in Libertarian Perspective.” This speech has been published as “The War in the Ukraine in Libertarian Perspective,” LewRockwell.com (Sept. 28, 2023).
Other talks to follow in due course.
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As noted here, PFS 20, the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, will be held from Thursday, September 18, 2025 to Tuesday, September 23, 2025, in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess.
Those interested in attending should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership),
Speakers and topics for previous Annual Meetings may be found here.
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“Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.” — Frédéric Bastiat
“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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