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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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 205.
This talk is from the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Andreas Tögel (Austria), The First Republic: The Rest is Austria – Between Inferiority Complex and Arrogance.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 204.
This talk is from the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Karl-Peter Schwarz (Austria), The Nationality Question in the Late Habsburg Empire
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 203.
This talk is from the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), Homo Austriacus.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 202.
This panel discussion is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. David Dürr (Switzerland), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Frank van Dun (Belgium), Discussion Q&A.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 201.
This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. David Dürr (Switzerland), From Divine Law to Papal Infallibility and Back Again.
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Longtime PFS member Doug French has a good article up on Mises Wire today, “The Turkish Way“. An excerpt:
The Wall Street Journal reported on September 22 that Turkey’s central bank cut that country’s benchmark interest rate to 12 percent from 13 percent, pushing the Turkish lira lower as much as 0.4 percent against the dollar to a new record low after the decision. One US dollar recently bought 18.3866 lira.
The bank of Prime Minister Recep Tyyip Erdoğan made its move the week following Drs. Hans and Gülçin Hoppe’s sixteenth annual Property and Freedom Society salon in booming Bodrum, the port city on the Aegean sea which once hosted a summer population of 170,000 that has since mushroomed to 700,000.
A conference attendee, noting that Bodrum was bustling, queried the panel of Saturday speakers with a question to the effect “Why not go the Turkish way (referring to inflation with an official rate over 80 percent, but a real rate more like 170 percent), there is no rioting in the streets?”
After a couple less than aggressive retorts Thorsten Polleit sternly drove home the point to the questioner, “Inflation ruins the common man.” The government’s printing press will destroy an individual’s lifetime of savings along with decimating a country’s capital.
Doug is referring here to the 16th Annual (2022) Meeting of the PFS, recently held in Bodrum. For previous pieces by Doug related to PFS, see: [continue reading…]
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 200.
This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Progress According to Pinker (Part II).
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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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