As PFS 2023 attendees are aware, longtime PFS member Stephan Kinsella’s book Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023) was recently published. Professor Hoppe provided the Foreword. A special inaugural print run was available at the recent PFS Annual Meeting (see pix below).
The book is now available to order in paperback and hardcover (pre-order), on some of the major platforms. Ebook versions and a free PDF will be available presently. [continue reading…]
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 252.
Over the years those lucky enough to study under Rothbard and Hoppe at UNLV in the 80s/90s have given some talks about their experiences there, usually spearheaded by Doug French, former Mises Institute President. This includes a panel at the Mises Institute’s 35th Anniversary event in New York in 2017 (schedule; Youtube playlist), and a panel at the Property and Freedom Society Annual Meeting in 2015 (PFP129 | Memories: Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) as Mentor and Teacher, Hoppe, DiLorenzo, French, Iglody (PFS 2015)).
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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. 22–24, 2023). He was unable to attend but has submitted a video of the lecture (below). Slides: Gabb pfs 2023 Slavery in the Roman World.
see PFP265.
Audio and video from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the PFS, Bodrum, Turkey (Sep. 24, 2023) will be posted and podcast soon. Kinsella’s informal audio is up already. Read more>>
Audio and video from the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the PFS, Bodrum, Turkey (Sep. 24, 2023) will be posted and podcast soon. One of the speakers already had his audio put up as well as the text of his speech: Thorsten Polleit (Germany): “The Economics of The “Great Reset”: Getting To The Truth” (soundcloud; text).
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 251.
This talk is from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Frank Van Dun (Belgium), David Dürr (Switzerland), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Discussion, Q&A.
Transcript below.
PFP251 | Van Dun, Hoppe, Dürr, Discussion, Q&A (PFS 2022) [continue reading…]
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 250.
This talk is from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), “Growing to Understand Contemporary Germany—and Weep: Part II: US-NATO, Germany, Russia, and the Ukraine”.
Transcript at “Growing to Understand Contemporary Germany and Weep – Part II,” LewRockwell.com (Oct. 17, 2022)
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 249.
This talk is from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), “Growing to Understand Contemporary Germany—and Weep: Part I: Germany: East and West, Reunification, and the US”.
Transcript at “Growing to Understand Contemporary Germany and Weep – Part I,” LewRockwell.com (Oct. 15, 2022)
https://youtu.be/bRnruHeWp0M
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (40.4MB)
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 248.
This talk is from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. David Dürr (Switzerland), “War and Peace – and the Law.”
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 247.
This talk is from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Frank Van Dun (Belgium), “Socialization and the Loss of Law-based Accountability—A Philosophical Reflection”.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (44.5MB)
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 246.
This talk is from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Thorsten Polleit (Germany), Karl-Friedrich Israel (Germany/France), Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France), Alessandro Fusillo (Italy), Stephan Kinsella (Texas), Discussion, Q&A.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (38.2MB)
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 245.
This talk is from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Stephan Kinsella (Texas), “Selling Does Not Imply Ownership, and Vice-Versa: A Dissection”.
See also KOL395 | Selling Does Not Imply Ownership, and Vice-Versa: A Dissection (PFS 2022).
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (19.8MB)
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 244.
This talk is from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Alessandro Fusillo (Italy), “Roman Law Reconsidered”.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (26.0MB)
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 243.
This talk is from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France), “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science”.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (29.3MB)
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 242.
This talk is from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Karl-Friedrich Israel (Germany/France), “A Critique of Inflation Measurement”.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (26.4MB)
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.
To donate with BITCOIN please use the address below. If you would like us to credit your payment (for dues, conference fees, etc.) please email Stephan Kinsella (nskinsella@gmail.com) when you make the bitcoin payment.
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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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