Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 219.
This talk is from the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Welcome and Introductions; How Would a Private Law Society Deal with Corona?
The notes for this presentation are provided below. See also Hoppe, On the Corona Panic and Other Insanities: Interview by Andrea Venanzoni,” LewRockwell.com (Aug. 4, 2021). [continue reading…]
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 218.
This panel discussion is from the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France), Stephan Kinsella (United States), David Dürr (Switzerland), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Discussion, Q&A.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 217.
This talk is from the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), The Failure of ‘Ontological Naturalism’
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Longtime PFS member Deanna Forbush (see her talk at PFP135) has just published an article in a mainstream newspaper defending the legality of prostitution, quoting the Austro-libertarian reasoning of Rothbard, Hoppe, and yours truly. Impressive.
Deanna Forbush, “When it comes to prostitution, let freedom be the last word,” The Nevada Independent (Feb. 3, 2023).
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 216.
This talk is from the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. David Dürr (Switzerland), Rights of Way – Ways out of the State.
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From my personal blog:
As reported at Mises.org, Yuri Maltsev has passed away. David Gordon has some nice words about Yuri there. I had been friends with Yuri for years. He attended the first Property and Freedom Society meeting in 2006, and many others since then, such as:
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 215.
This talk is from the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Stephan Kinsella (United States), Nobody Owns Bitcoin. PFS 2019 Playlist.
See also KOL274 | Nobody Owns Bitcoin (PFS 2019).
Powerpoint slides embedded below.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 214.
This panel disucssion is from the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France), Less (Marcel) Mauss, More (Ludwig) Mises.
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The 2023 (Seventeenth) Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society was held from Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023 (arrivals) to Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023 (departures), in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess.
Those interested in attending the 2024 Meeting should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership),
The list of speakers for the 2023 Annual Meeting follows (in order of presentation). For information about the previous meeting, see here. Video is available at the PFS 2023 Playlist, and audio is available at the Property and Freedom Podcast. [continue reading…]
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 213.
This panel discussion is from the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Cristiano Chiocca (Brazil), Antony Müller (Germany/Brazil), X (England), Matteo Salonia (Italy/England), Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England/France), Discussion, Q&A.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 212.
This talk is from the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England/France), Murder Mysteries then and now: Agatha Christie and Ian Rankin.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 211.
This talk is from the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Matteo Salonia (Italy/England), Private Wealth and Self-Defense in Medieval Genoa.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 209.
This talk is from the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Antony Müller (Germany/Brazil), Class, Ethnicity, and Power.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 208.
This talk is from the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Cristiano Chiocca (Brazil), The ‘Old Republic’ and the ‘New’.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 207.
This talk is from the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), Karl-Peter Schwarz (Austria), Andreas Tögel (Austria), Frank Karsten (The Netherlands), Discussion, Q&A.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 206.
This talk is from the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Frank Karsten (The Netherlands), Discrimination: Inescapable and Prudential.
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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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