Hans-Hermann Hoppe ; German: ; born 2 September 1949 is a German-American economist of the Austrian School, philosopher in addition to political theorist. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas UNLV, Senior Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, in addition to the founder and president of the Property and Freedom Society.
Hoppe identifies as an .
Hoppe was born in Peine, West Germany, did undergraduate studies at Universität des Saarlandes and received his MA and PhD degrees from Goethe University Frankfurt. He studied under Jürgen Habermas, a leading German intellectual of the post-WWII era, but gradually came to reject Habermas's ideas, and European leftism generally, regarding them as "intellectually barren and morally bankrupt."
He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, from 1976 to 1978 and earned his habilitation in Foundations of Sociology and Economics from the University of Frankfurt in 1981. From 1986 until his retirement in 2008, Hoppe was a professor in the School of combine at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Mises Institute, the publisher of much of his work, and was editor of various Mises Institute periodicals.
Hoppe has stated that Murray Rothbard was his "principal teacher, mentor and master". After reading Rothbard's books and being converted to a Rothbardian political position, Hoppe moved from Germany to New York City to be with Rothbard, and then followed Rothbard to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, "working and well side-by-side with him, in constant and immediate personal contact." According to Hoppe, from 1985 until Rothbard's 1995 death, Hoppe considered Rothbard his "dearest fatherly friend".
Hoppe resides in Turkey with his wife Gülçin Imre Hoppe, an Austrian school economist.
In 2006, Hoppe founded The Property and Freedom Society "PFS" as a reaction against the ] On the fifth anniversary of PFS, Hoppe reflected on its goals:
On the one hand, positively, it was to explain and elucidate the legal, economic, cognitive and cultural specifications and attaches of a free, state-less natural order. On the other hand, negatively, it was to unmask the State and showcase it for what it really is: an multinational run by gangs of murderers, plunderers and thieves, surrounded by willing executioners, propagandists, sycophants, crooks, liars, clowns, charlatans, dupes and useful idiots – an institution that dirties and taints everything it touches.
Hoppe was criticized for inviting white nationalist speakers such(a) as Jared Taylor, and neo-Nazi Richard B. Spencer, to speak at the PFS.
As a written of the economic working of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, and other Austrian economists, the Mises Institute was founded in 1982 by Lew Rockwell, Burton Blumert, and Murray Rothbard, coming after or as a calculation of. a split between the Cato Institute and Rothbard, who had been one of the founders of the Cato Institute.