by Stephan Kinsella
on September 3, 2011
Reposted from Andy Duncan’s blog, The God that Failed:
In the magnificent Peter Sellers film, The Mouse That Roared, the strangely English-speaking Duchy of Grand Fenwick, a tiny nation between France and Switzerland, defeats the United States in a rather bizarre nuclear stand-off.
Will another such Duchy, the tiny Italian town of Filettino, similarly defeat the horrible coerced agglomeration known as Italy, inside the even more horrible coerced agglomeration known as the European Union?
We can but hope.
For Filettino has declared its independence from Rome, in a bid to emulate San Marino, Monaco, the Vatican City, and Andorra (and I suppose the Cantons of Switzerland itself, when they shook off the First Reich of the mass murderer Charlemagne, and his rotten Holy Roman Empire).
Obviously, we will see if Filettino’s independence lasts, or if it is just another political stunt, but it is an interesting event to witness nevertheless. For when in the future we look back from ‘Hoppe World’ and work out how we got there, historians will regard such incidents as being symptomatic of a wider terminal malaise of coerced collectivism:
Go Filettino!
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by Stephan Kinsella
on August 16, 2011
Interviu cu Hans-Hermann Hoppe despre taxare, the Romanian translation of Professor Hoppe’s Philosophie Magazine Interview on Taxation, has just been posted on the Mises Romania site. It has also been translated into several other languages.
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by Stephan Kinsella
on August 11, 2011
In this humorous interview parody, Exclusive Oliver Marc Hartwich Interview on Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Benjamin Marks skewers the confused criticism of Professor Hoppe’s ideas by one … confused critic.
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by Stephan Kinsella
on August 9, 2011
PFS friend Benjamin Marks has a witty post about Professor Hoppe’s upcoming participation in the Australian Mises Seminar (25-26th November, 2011, Macquarie University, Sydney): Why the 2012 double Nobel laureate is coming to Sydney.
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by Stephan Kinsella
on August 4, 2011
Professor Hoppe delivered the following lectures at Mises U 2011:
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by Stephan Kinsella
on August 4, 2011
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by Stephan Kinsella
on July 25, 2011
Recent addition to online translations: ??-???·???????????????????, Chinese translation of Socialism: A Property or Knowledge Problem? (RAE, Vol. 9 Num. 1), translated by Nicolas DONG.
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by Stephan Kinsella
on June 16, 2011
John Derbyshire, attendee of the 2011 PFS Annual Meeting, reflects on this experience there in Taki’s Magazine:
by John Derbyshire
June 02, 2011
I spent the Memorial Day weekend as a guest of Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s
Property and Freedom Society at their annual conference in Bodrum, Turkey. It was a wonderfully relaxing break, for which I am very much obliged to the good professor, his charming wife, and their co-organizers. I gave
a talk about China and got to see some of Turkey (a country that was new to me), and I listened to some interesting and instructive lectures.
The PFS exists to help promote the economic and political libertarianism of Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. I was in Bodrum because Prof. Hoppe was kind enough to invite me, not because I am a particularly dogmatic disciple of those gents. I approve of them and their doctrines in a vague, general sort of way, as I approve of anything much to the right of the statist elephantiasis dominant in the modern West and which looks to be sailing into some great crisis in the near future.
On the other hand I have issues with libertarianism—with free trade, for instance, and with the open-borders dogma that too many libertarians (though not all the ones at Bodrum, perhaps not even a majority) cling to with religious zeal.
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by Stephan Kinsella
on June 16, 2011
Very nice reflections on the recent 2011 PFS Annual Meeting by attendee Benjamin Marks:
by Benjamin Marks, Economics.org.au editor-in-chief
and Mencken’s Conservatism author
In light of the furore arising from my appointment as editor-in-chief of the Australian economics organisation, Economics.org.au, it was decided that I travel as far away from Australia as I could until the media frenzy subsided. I was philosophical about this, figuring that having reached the pinnacle of the Australian economics profession with my appointment, the only challenges left for me were abroad anyway. So, in my new capacity as senior foreign correspondent for Economics.org.au, I attended the 6th Annual Property and Freedom Society (PFS) Conference in Bodrum, Turkey.
The significance of the conference being in Turkey cannot be understated. There was a gaudy Turkish election campaign of some sort playing out during the conference, and big clunky polluting vehicles were driven around the poorly-maintained and traffic-clogged streets with loud songs and speeches advertising the candidates. Imagine an ice cream van that went three times as fast, emitted noise almost as irritating as “Greensleeves” and offered something people had to be forced to fund. Pedestrians were treated like taxpayers. Despite not understanding the language that the election profundities were in — I was the only conference participant who was not at least bilingual —, they were still just as comprehensible to me as the confabulations of English-speaking politicians.
[continue reading…]
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by Stephan Kinsella
on June 16, 2011
Nice review of the 2011 PFS Annual Meeting by Andy Duncan: A Few Days outside the Asylum.
A Few Days outside the Asylum
Mises Daily: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 by Andy Duncan
[The Cobden Centre (2011)]
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans may remember a splendid character (first appearing in So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish) called Wonko the Sane, who lived upon the Earth outside of the asylum. I now know how Wonko felt.
Being a man who claims to be the hardest hard-core Rothbardian in England, (and it’s pistols at dawn in the mist for anyone who wishes to argue the point), I feel I was last inside the bubble of civilization two years ago, when I was lucky enough to be invited to Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Property and Freedom Society conference, held in 2009. The two years since, inside the asylum, have passed in a hilarious blur as various pin-headed identikit Labservatives or Conliberals jaw-boned at each other (at my expense) about how different they are from each other, because some like pink dots on their blue ties while others prefer yellow dots on their pink ties.
Oh, how Jonathan Swift so beautifully captured the futility of anyone believing in the usefulness of politicians with his immortal book, Gulliver’s Travels, and his description of the ropedancers: [continue reading…]
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by Stephan Kinsella
on June 13, 2011
Two presentations by Prof. Hoppe (in German) from September 24 2010, Philosophicum Lech 2010, “Der Staat, Wieviel Herrschaft braucht der Mensch?”:
The text is available on Hoppe’s German Translations page: Staat oder Privatrechtsgesellschaft? [Text of speech delivered at the 14th Philosophicum Lech, 24 Sept. 2010].
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by Stephan Kinsella
on June 12, 2011
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by Stephan Kinsella
on June 12, 2011
My article, “Read Hoppe, Then Nothing Is the Same,” discussing my upcoming Mises Academy course, “The Social Theory of Hoppe” (Mondays, July 11-Aug. 21, 2011) was published on Mises Daily last Friday, June 10 2011. The article has also been translated into Spanish: Tras leer a Hoppe, nada es lo mismo.
“Read Hoppe, Then Nothing Is the Same” by Stephan Kinsella
Combining Misesian praxeology with Rothbardian insights, Hoppe has developed a magnificent, integrated edifice of rational thought.
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by Stephan Kinsella
on May 26, 2011
From today’s Mises Daily:
Argumentation Ethics and Liberty: A Concise Guide
Mises Daily: Monday, May 23, 2011 by Stephan Kinsella
Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe burst onto the Austrolibertarian scene in the late 1980s, when he moved to the United States to study under and work with his mentor Murray Rothbard. Since his arrival, Professor Hoppe has produced a steady stream of pioneering contributions to economic and libertarian theory. A key contribution of Professor Hoppe is his provocative “argumentation-ethics” defense of libertarian rights.
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by Hans Hoppe
on May 20, 2011
The Social Theory of Hoppe: A Mises Academy Course taught by Stephan Kinsella, July 11-Aug. 21, 2011
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by Hans Hoppe
on May 20, 2011
Interesting article on LewRockwell.com:
The Biblical Nature of Hoppean Monarchism
by Ryan Bassett
Hans Hermann Hoppe has been widely recognized for stating the advantages of a traditional monarchy over that of what is essentially mob rule, that is, Democracy. While it is true that Hans Hoppe is not a monarchist but rather an anarcho-capitalist his insights into the frailties and destructive nature of Democracy are thorough and convincing. His brilliant work, Democracy: The God That Failed, is to date probably his best scholarly work on the subject.
However, the very idea of monarchism is completely antithetical to modern sensibilities in the West. This is particularly true in the United States where a traditional European-style monarchy has not existed since the founding of the nation during the late 18th century. Having been founded upon republican principles, supposedly the official gateway to liberty, Americans possess a natural inclination to dismiss the very idea of monarchy out of hand, branding it as being contrary to a liberty-based and economically prosperous civilization. While it is true that monarchies fail to provide the libertarian panacea many naturally crave it is also an intellectual mistake to envision a republican or democratic form of government as the ideal for liberty. Christians, despite their monarchist past, are just as adamant in their protestations toward any form of civilization outside the mainstream view of republicanism and democracy, erroneously viewing it, like their secular counterparts, as the height of human civilization. Is this actually the case however?
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by Hans Hoppe
on May 10, 2011
Professor Hoppe’s article, “Of Private, Common, and Public Property and the Rationale for Total Privatization”, Libertarian Papers 3, 1 (2011) (published as “The Rationale for Total Privatization,” Mises Daily (Mar. 14, 2011)), has been published in Portugese at Mises Brasil: “O fundamento lógico para a privatização total” (May 6, 2011).
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by Hans Hoppe
on May 9, 2011
From the Mises Blog:
State or Private-Law Society
In the history of social and political thought, myriad proposals have been offered as solutions to the problem of social order. Many believe that the search for a single “correct” solution is futile and illusory. Yet a correct solution does exist. The solution is the idea of private property.
FULL ARTICLE by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
(Video of the speech may be found at Hoppe in Brasil on the State versus the Private Law Society.)
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by Hans Hoppe
on May 5, 2011
As I noted here, Professor Hoppe recently delivered the speech “State or Private Law Society?” in April 2011 at the 2nd Austrian School Conference, Mises Institute Brasil, in Porto Alegre.
His second talk delivered at the same conference, “Economic Crises: How to Cause Them and How to Make Them Worse by ‘Curing’ Them,” is now also available. [Youtube videos of the talk may be found here.]
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