Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Born in Peine[?] West Germany, he attended the Universität des Saarlandes[?] in Saarbrücken, and the Goethe-Universität[?], Frankfurt am Main, studying Philosophy, Sociology, History, and Economics. He earned his Ph.D. (Philosophy, 1974) and his “Habilitation[?]” (Foundations of Sociology and Economics, 1981), both from the Goethe-Universität. He was a post-doctoral fellow[?] at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from 1976 to 1978.

He taught at several German universities as well as at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center for Advanced International Studies[?], Bologna, Italy. In 1986, he moved from Germany to the United States, to study under Murray Rothbard. He remained a close associate until Rothbard's death in January, 1995.

Hoppe is currently Professor of Economics at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a Senior Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and Editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies[?].

Books

• Handeln und Erkennen[?] (Bern 1976)
• Kritik der kausalwissenschaftlichen Sozialforschung[?] (Westdeutscher Verlag[?] 1983)
• Eigentum, Anarchie und Staat[?] (Westdeutscher Verlag[?] 1987))
• A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism[?] (Kluwer[?] 1989)
• The Economics and Ethics of Private Property[?] (Kluwer[?], 1993)
• Economic Science and the Austrian Method[?] (Mises Institute, 1995)
• Democracy: The God That Failed[?] (Transaction, 2001)

External link

• Hans-Hermann Hoppe homepage (http://www.hanshoppe.com/)