Professor Hoppe taught five classes at the Mises U 2011 in Auburn, Alabama, this past July, including his great speech The Science of Human Action, which kicked off Mises U (his other Mises U 2011 lectures are here). In this speech, Professor Hoppe discusses his intellectual biography and relationship with Rothbard, as well as the Austrian approach and methodology. While he was in town, Jeff Tucker conducted a fascinating interview with him (see video below). In this wide-ranging interview, Professor Hoppe discusses in more detail the history of his intellectual odyssey from leftist to Misesian-Rothbardian, his various books, various topics such as German reintegration, the centralizing effects of constitutions (including the US Constitution and EU), why states with more liberal economies are more imperialist, the interesting and heretofore undisclosed story of exactly how communist policies in East Germany led him to discover Mises, and more.
As announced on B.K. Marcus’s post at the Mises blog today (see below), the Hoppe festschrift that Guido Hülsmann and I edited, Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Mises Institute, 2009), which was already available in PDF and print, is now available in a free epub format as well. Kindle and other ebook formats should be available soon. The festschrift was presented to Professor Hoppe, just a month or so before his 60th birthday, at a private ceremony on July 29, 2009, in Auburn, AL during Mises University 2009 (see Hoppe Festschrift Published). Pictures from the ceremony are embedded below.
Property, Freedom, and Society: Marzipan in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Also, as I noted in Book Review of Hoppe Festschrift, David Howden wrote an excellent review of the festschrift in New Perspectives on Political Economy. And, as I noted in that post, and in Bodrum Days and Nights: The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: A Partial Report, as a piece of Festschrift trivia: at the recent Property and Freedom Society conference in Bodrum, Turkey, a guest presented a festschrift-cake he had had made in Estonia, entitled “Property, Freedom, and Society: Marzipan in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe,” which was served as part of the dessert at the closing banquet.
Reposted from Andy Duncan’s blog, The God that Failed: Principato di Filettino: A step on the road to Hoppe World? Posted on September 3, 2011 by Andy Duncan 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 [...]
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.
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.
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.
Professor Hoppe delivered the following lectures at Mises U 2011: Probability and Insurance (Saturday, July 30, 2011) Property and the Social Order (Thursday, July 28, 2011) Advanced Graduate Seminar (Tuesday, July 26, 2011) Praxeology: The Method of Economics (Monday, July 25, 2011) The Science of Human Action (Sunday, July 24, 2011)
Recent addition to online translations: 汉斯-赫尔曼·霍佩：社会主义：财产问题还是知识问题？, Chinese translation of Socialism: A Property or Knowledge Problem? (RAE, Vol. 9 Num. 1), translated by Nicolas DONG.
John Derbyshire, attendee of the 2011 PFS Annual Meeting, reflects on this experience there in Taki’s Magazine: The Shadow Science of Economics 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 [...]
Very nice reflections on the recent 2011 PFS Annual Meeting by attendee Benjamin Marks: No Booboisie at Gülçin’s Galt’s Gulch 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 [...]
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 [...]
Two presentations by Prof. Hoppe (in German) from September 24 2010, Philosophicum Lech 2010, “Der Staat, Wieviel Herrschaft braucht der Mensch?”: Vortrag von Univ. Prof. Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Staat oder Privatrechtsgesellschaft” (45MB MP3 file), Vortrag von Univ. Prof. Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Staat oder Privatrechtsgesellschaft” (68MB MP3 file) The text is available on Hoppe’s German Translations [...]
From the PFS 2011: Politics, Money and Banking. Everything You Need to Know in 30 Minutes pfs-2011 Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Politics, Money and Banking. Everything You Need to Know in 30 Minutes from Sean Gabb on Vimeo.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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).
