Property and Freedom Podcast

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 223. This talk is from the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Thorsten Polleit (Germany), The Modern Version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “One Ring To Rule Them All”: A Single World Fiat Money. PFS 2021 Playlist. See also his article based on this speech, A Global Fiat Currency: “One Ring to Rule Them All” (Mises Wire, 9/24/2021). Portuguese translation. See also Hoppe, Banking, Nation States and International Politics: A Sociological Reconstruction of the Present Economic Order (Vol. 4 Num. 1) (also in EEPP).

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 222. This talk is from the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Saifedean Ammous (Palestine/Jordan), Hard Money and Time Preference. PFS 2021 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 221. This talk is from the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Juan F. Carpio (Ecuador), The Body as a Capital Good (pdf). PFS 2021 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 220. This talk is from the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Tim Haffner (United States/Japan), Japan’s First Samurai: Rebellion Against Monopoly Justice. PFS 2021 Playlist.

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? PFS 2021 Playlist. 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). ❧ How Would a Private Law Society Deal with Corona?: Opening Remarks to the Property and Freedom Society Fifteenth Annual Meeting Friday, Sept. 17, 2021 • Bodrum Turkey Hans-Hermann Hoppe In a private law society, all land, every square inch, is privately owned. All apartments, houses, settlements, roads, waterways, seaports and airports, factories, offices, schools, hospitals, etc., have a private owner. This owner is either an individual or a group of individuals, a private association, each with its own house rules, organizational structure and internal decision-making rules and procedures. So this achieves, in contrast to all and any political centralism, a maximum of decentralized decision-making and, at the same time, a maximum of responsibility and responsible action. Every decision is the decision of a particular person or association with regard to their (and only their) private property. And every decision-maker is liable or covers the costs and consequential costs for his decisions or wrong decisions with his own property. For the specific problem of dealing with a pandemic, this means that much like the immigration problem, the urgency of which is currently obscured by the coronavirus, the question in the face of a pandemic is simply “who do I let in and who do I bar?” or “who do I visit and who do I stay away from?” More specifically: Each private property owner or property owner’s association has to decide, based on their own risk assessment of an infectious disease with respect to their property, who they allow to enter their property, when, and under what conditions, and who do they disallow. And, especially in the case of commercially used property, this decision can and will include one’s own preventive measures that are intended to facilitate visitor or customer access by making them appear to reduce or minimize risk. And conversely, visitors or customers may also take precautionary measures on their part to provide unimpeded access to various potential hosts. The result of these multiple individual decisions is a complex web of access and visiting rules. All encounters or meetings of persons take place voluntarily and deliberately. They come about in each case because both the host and the visitor consider the benefit of their encounter to be greater than the risk of possible infectious contagion resulting from it. Therefore, neither host nor visitor have any reciprocal liability claims, should an infection actually occur as a result of their encounter. This risk (including possible hospital costs, etc.) must be borne by each party alone. In this case, liability claims are only possible if, for example, the host deliberately deceived his visitors concerning his own preventive measures or if the visitor deliberately and intentionally violated the host’s conditions of entry. But even without any deception, the decisions of hosts and visitors are never without a price. Every preventive or precautionary measure involves an additional cost that must have an apparent justification, whether by the expectation of additional profits or reduced losses, or whether by increased acceptance or reduced rejection by potential visitors. And, in particular, every private decision-maker also has to bear the costs of possible wrong decisions in this respect, i.e., if the expectations are not only not fulfilled, but even turn into the opposite. If the supposed defense and precautionary measures are not only ineffective, but turn out to be counterproductive and even increase the risk of infection overall, be it of hosts or guests, instead of reducing it.   These are considerable costs that are the responsibility of a private decision-maker and could still be his when faced with an epidemic. His economic existence and his closest social environment may be at stake. In view of this, he will consider his decision thoroughly, and all the more so the more property and friendly relations he has or maintains. He must be quickly prepared, often almost “by force” to learn from his own mistakes and to correct his earlier decisions in order to avoid further economic or social costs. Accordingly, as with all other problems or risks – real or perceived – the same is true in the case of infectious diseases and epidemics. The best – most cost-effective and efficient – way to minimize the damage associated with an epidemic is to decentralize decision-making down to the level of private owners or owner associations. This is because, as mentioned a

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. PFS 2019 Playlist. Transcript at KOL272-2 | Q&A with Hülsmann, Dürr, Kinsella, Hoppe (PFS 2019).

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’ PFS 2019 Playlist.

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. PFS 2019 Playlist.

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. For an article based on the transcript, see “Nobody Owns Bitcoin,” StephanKinsella.com (Sept. 20, 2019). Some related Q&A is in this session which was held later on the same day: Hülsmann, Kinsella, Dürr, Hoppe, Q&A (PFS 2019). Related links/relevant material: Konrad Graf, Are Bitcoins Ownable?: Property Rights, IP Wrongs, and Legal-Theory Implications [PDF] Preston Byrne, What do you legally “own” with Bitcoin? A short introduction to krypto-property On the Danger of Metaphors in Scientific Discourse LeFevre on Intellectual Property and the “Ownership of Intangibles” The “If you own something, that implies that you can sell it; if you sell something, that implies you must own it first” Fallacies, “The Non-Aggression Principle as a Limit on Action, Not on Property Rights,” StephanKinsella.com Blog (Jan. 22, 2010) “IP and Aggression as Limits on Property Rights: How They Differ,” StephanKinsella.com Blog (Jan. 22, 2010) KOL085 | The History, Meaning, and Future of Legal Tender The Limits of Libertarianism?: A Dissenting View KOL249 | WCN’s Max Hillebrand: Intellectual Property and Who Owns Bitcoin Cordato and Kirzner on Intellectual Property Mises on property KOL246 | CryptoVoices: Bitcoin as Property, Digital Goods, Personal Liberty, and Intellectual Property See other links at KOL191 | The Economy with Albert Lu: Can You Own Bitcoin? (1/3) My facebook post discussing ownership of Bitcoin Tom Bell: Copyright Erodes Property? Bitcoin Is Officially a Commodity, According to U.S. Regulator Tax Plan May Hurt Bitcoin, WSJ Swiss Tax Authorities Confirm that Bitcoin is VAT-free in Switzerland Tokyo court says bitcoins are not ownable FinCEN Rules Commodity-Backed Token Services are Money Transmitters Bitcoin Is Officially a Commodity, According to U.S. Regulator; Miami Judge Rules Bitcoin Is Not Money; Dismisses Money Laundering, Transmitting Charges How to handle bitcoin gains on your taxes SEC: US Securities Laws ‘May Apply’ to Token Sales Federal Judge Rules Bitcoin Is Real Money

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. PFS 2019 Playlist.

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. PFS 2019 Playlist.

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. PFS 2019 Playlist.

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. PFS 2019 Playlist.

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. PFS 2019 Playlist.

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’. PFS 2019 Playlist.

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. PFS 2019 Playlist.

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. PFS 2019 Playlist.

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. PFS 2019 Playlist.

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 PFS 2019 Playlist.

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. PFS 2019 Playlist.

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. PFS 2018 Playlist.

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. PFS 2018 Playlist.

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). PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 199. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), The Libertarian Search for a Grand Historical Narrative (Part I). A transcript is available. PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 198. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Frank van Dun (Belgium), What Did the Reformation Reform? PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 197. This panel discussion is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Stephan Kinsella (USA), Norman Stone† (UK/Turkey), Pascal Salin (France), Jeff Deist (USA), Michael Malice (USA), Discussion, Q&A. PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 196. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Jeff Deist (USA), The Zeitgeist Libertarians. PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 195. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Stephan Kinsella (USA), International Law Through A Libertarian Lens. Powerpoint slides embedded below. Also podcast at: KOL250 | International Law Through a Libertarian Lens (PFS 2018). PFS 2018 Playlist. Related material: see material linked in the above slides, including: Kinsella, On the UN, the Birchers, and International Law Rubins, Papanastasiou & Kinsella’s International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide, Second Edition (Oxford, 2020) KOL001 | “The (State’s) Corruption of (Private) Law” (PFS 2012) International Law MOOC (Youtube) Sovereignty, International Law, and the Triumph of Anglo-American Cunning | Joseph R. Stromberg Rosalyn Higgins, Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It (Clarendon, 1994) Mark Janis, International Law (7th Ed. 2018) Restatement (Third) of the Law, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States (1987), HeinOnline, Westlaw (not online) American Society of International Law (ASIL), Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL) https://www.asil.org/resources/electronic-resource-guide-erg and http://www.eisil.org/ M.N. Shaw, International Law (7th Ed. 2017) Ian Brownlie (Crawford), Principles of Public International Law (1966) (8th ed., 2012) Update: See also my International Law, Libertarian Principles, and the Russia-Ukraine War; and Murray Rothbard, “Just War,” in John Denson, ed., The Costs of War: Much of “classical international law” theory, developed by the Catholic Scholastics, notably the 16th-century Spanish Scholastics such as Vitoria and Suarez, and then the Dutch Protestant Scholastic Grotius and by 18th- and 19th-century jurists, was an explanation of the criteria for a just war. For war, as a grave act of killing, needs to be justified. … Classical international law … should be brought back as quickly as possible.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 194b. This is a bonus episode. While at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, guest speaker Michael Malice (USA) interviewed Professor Hoppe for his show “YOUR WELCOME”. PFS 2018 Playlist. From Malice’s shownotes: It took a trip to Bodrum, Turkey, but on this week’s “YOUR WELCOME” Michael Malice sits down for an exclusive interview with the legendary and notorious Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Hoppe is the author of (among other works) “Democracy: The God That Failed” and one of the world’s leading exponents of right-wing libertarian thought–and the consequent subject of many memes. As president and founder of the Property and Freedom Society, Hoppe hosts an annual international meeting of political radicals. Hoppe has taken a policy of declining all interviews so this is a rare chance to see him discuss his work, being a dad, studying with Murray Rothbard and, yes, telling a joke.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 194. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Michael Malice (USA), The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: The God That Failed. PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 193. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Norman Stone† (UK/Turkey), The Cultural Background of the Austrian School PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 192. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Pascal Salin (France), On Understanding France and French Intellectual History. PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 191. This panel discussion is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Sean Gabb (England), X (England), Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England), Discussion, Q&A. PFS 2018 Playlist. Note: Up until today we have been releasing talks from previous meetings at a pace of 5 episodes per week, to get past the backlog. Since we are almost caught up, starting with this episode we are switching to a release schedule of once per week, on Mondays. The material from the upcoming 2022 meeting will start being released in June 2023.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 190. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England), The Psychology of Multiculturalism. PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 189. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), Why Are Western Europeans So Naive? An Empathic Cultural Anthropology. PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 187. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Sean Gabb (England), How Rome Fell and Byzantium Continued for Another Millennium. For further information, see the written version, including the mentioned maps. PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 186. This bonus talk from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society is an interview conducted on site during the meeting: Interview with Stephan Kinsella—Private Law in a Libertarian Society (Grosse Freiheit TV). See also KOL226 | Grosse Freiheit TV Interview: Private Law in a Libertarian Society. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 185. This bonus talk for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society is Professor Hoppe’s “Coming of Age with Murray”, Keynote speech, Mises Institute 35th Anniversary Gala (Oct. 7, 2017). PFS 2017 Playlist. For related, see Murray N. Rothbard and the Ethics of Liberty, Introduction to the new edition of Murray N. Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty (New York: New York University Press, 1998) Hoppe, Libertarianism and the “Alt-Right” (PFS 2017) Hoppe’s Review of Rothbard’s Festschrift Introduction to Democracy: The God That Failed Hoppe’s remarks in Presentation of the 2015 Murray N. Rothbard Medal of Freedom Other links in Kinsella, Hoppe: A Précis

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 184. This panel discussion is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England), Stephan Kinsella (USA), David Dürr (Switzerland), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Discussion, Q&A. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 183. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Libertarianism and the “Alt-Right”. PFS 2017 Playlist. An article based on the talk has been published as Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Libertarianism and the Alt-Right: In Search of a Libertarian Strategy for Social Change,” The Libertarian Alliance (UK) (20 Oct. 2017) (also at VDare). Related talks: Hans Hermann Hoppe, “On The Ethics of Argumentation” (PFS 2016) Q&A (TBD) “Coming of Age with Murray”, Mises Institute 35th Anniversary Gala Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Realistic Libertarianism as Right-Libertarianism” (PFS 2014) The Property And Freedom Society—Reflections After Five Years (video) For a silly response, see Bill Wirtz, Hey Hoppe, this is what the ‘Stupids for Liberty’ do (Nov. 14, 2017) (archive)

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 182. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. David Dürr (Switzerland), Suing the State for Independence. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 181. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Stephan Kinsella (USA), Reflections on the Theory of Contract. PFS 2017 Playlist. See shownotes, slides, transcript, and related links at Kinsella on Liberty ep. 225.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 180. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England), Political Correctness in Medical Journals. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 179. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France), Norman Stone† (UK/Turkey), Janusz Korwin-Mikke (Poland), Patrik Schumacher (Germany/UK), Titus Gebel (Germany), Discussion, Q&A. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 178. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Titus Gebel (Germany), Creating Free Private Cities. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 177. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Patrik Schumacher (Germany/UK), Free Market Urban Order—Urbanism beyond Planning. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 176. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Janusz Korwin-Mikke (Poland), The EU Parliament: A Report from Inside the Insane Asylum. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 175. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Norman Stone† (UK/Turkey), Understanding Hungary and the Hungarians. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 174. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France), The Ethics of Capital Incomes. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 173. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), Entrepreneurs: Heros, Crooks, and Visionaries. PFS 2017 Playlist.