Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Hoppe in 2024
Born (1949-09-02) 2 September 1949 (age 75)
MovementAnarcho-capitalism
Cultural conservatism
Paleolibertarianism
Spouse(s)Gülçin Imre Hoppe[3]
Margaret Rudelich (div.)[4]
Academic career
Field
InstitutionsBusiness school of University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Mises Institute
Property and Freedom Society
School or
tradition
Austrian School
Continental philosophy
Alma materGoethe University Frankfurt
Influences
ContributionsArgumentation ethics
Capitalist critique of democracy
AwardsThe Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize (2006)[1]
Franz Cuhel Memorial Prize (Prague Conference on Political Economy 2009)[2][third-party source needed]
Websitehttp://www.hanshoppe.com
Signature

Hans-Hermann Hoppe (/ˈhɒpə/;[5] German: [ˈhɔpə]; born 2 September 1949) is a German-American academic associated with Austrian School economics, anarcho-capitalism, right-wing libertarianism, and opposition to democracy.[6][7][8][9][10] He is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), senior fellow of the Mises Institute think tank, and the founder and president of the Property and Freedom Society.[11][12]

Hoppe has written extensively in opposition to democracy, notably in his 2001 book Democracy: The God That Failed.[13][14][10] The book favors exclusionary "covenant communities" that are "founded for the purpose of protecting family and kin".[15][16] A section of the book favoring exclusion of democrats and homosexuals from society helped popularize Hoppe on the far-right.[13][17][18]

Hoppe was a protégé of Murray Rothbard, who established him at UNLV, where Hoppe taught from 1986 to 2008.[19][7][6] In 2004, a student's complaint about Hoppe's lecture comments regarding homosexuals and time preference led to an investigation and non-disciplinary letter to Hoppe by UNLV, which was subsequently withdrawn after a controversy over academic freedom.[18]

Hoppe founded the Property and Freedom Society in 2006; among the speakers at the organization's conferences in Turkey, some have been white nationalists.[20][21][22][13]

  1. ^ Kanopiadmin (18 August 2014). "The Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize". Mises Institute Awards. Ludwig von Mises Institute. Archived from the original on 10 November 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  2. ^ History of PCPE Archived 25 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine, CEVRO Institute, Prague
  3. ^ Deist, Jeff (March–April 2020). "Vol 6, No 2" (PDF). The Austrian. Auburn, AL: Mises Institute. p. 12. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  4. ^ Block, Walter E.; Futerman, Alan G. (May 2024). "Rejoined to Hoppe on Israel Versus Hamas" (PDF). MEST Journal: 1–57. Retrieved 8 May 2024. Hoppe is himself divorced. This, presumably, renders him 'abnormal and perverse.' Also, this is hypocrisy.
  5. ^ "Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Why Democracy Fails" Archived 25 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ a b Dieterle, David A. (2013). Economic Thinkers: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Greenwood. p. 145. ISBN 978-0313397462.
  7. ^ a b Olsen, Niklas; Slobodian, Quinn (April 2022). "Locating Ludwig von Mises: Introduction". Journal of the History of Ideas. 83 (2): 257–267. doi:10.1353/jhi.2022.0012. ISSN 1086-3222. PMID 35603613. S2CID 248987154. Archived from the original on 31 May 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  8. ^ Plehwe, Dieter; Slobodian, Quinn (2020). Nine Lives of Neoliberalism. London: Verso. p. 16. ISBN 9781788732550.
  9. ^ Hawley, George (2017). Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism. United States: University Press of Kansas. pp. 167–170. ISBN 9780700625796. In order to restore private property rights and truly erode the state, libertarians must actually be "radical and uncompromising conservatives". He insisted that libertarians must always favor the right to discriminate, even on the basis of race, and further argued that as long as states exist, states should have the right to restrict or completely ban foreign immigration.
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  11. ^ "Hans-Hermann Hoppe". Ludwig von Mises Institute. 20 June 2014. Archived from the original on 13 November 2019. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  12. ^ "UNLV Catalog" (PDF). p. 47. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 June 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
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  15. ^ Jensen, Jacob (April 2022). "Repurposing Mises: Murray Rothbard and the Birth of Anarchocapitalism". Journal of the History of Ideas. 83 (2): 332. doi:10.1353/jhi.2022.0015. ISSN 1086-3222. PMID 35603616. S2CID 248985277. Archived from the original on 12 July 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
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  20. ^ Mower, Lawrence (May 11, 2007). "Researchers tied to hate groups get invitations." Las Vegas Review-Journal
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