Professor Hoppe’s monograph Kritik der kausalwissenschaftlichen Sozialforschung: Untersuchungen zur Grundlegung von Soziologie und Ökonomie [Critique of Causal Scientific Social Research: Studies on the Foundation of Sociology and Economics] (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1983) has been translated into English by Andreas Tank. This monograph based is the published version of his “Habilitation” thesis, in Sociology and Economics, 1981, from the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main.
It available here and pasted below. Note from Tank: the footnotes from chapters 2 and 3 are not yet included because they do not appear in the online text, but only in the scanned book. It will take me about a month [today’s date is Oct. 1, 2025) to manually type these footnotes and translate them separately. [continue reading…]
On War, Democratic Peace, and Reeducation: The “German Experience” in Reactionary Perspective
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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All States make war. Indeed, States owe their very origin to war and are the result of war.[1] But there are different sorts of wars. Historically, for instance, there exists the ideal-typical distinction and difference of and between monarchical wars on the one hand and democratic wars on the other.[2][continue reading…]
[27:32] Tom Woods: Some people’s contribution to thought is “woke is bad.” I agree—woke people are hopeless, their arguments baseless. But speculating beyond that isn’t allowed because the range of acceptable opinion is tiny, with “woke is bad” taking up most of it. You and Tucker touched on issues not even well-known enough to be third rails, like democracy’s long-term problems. You made comments, possibly derived from Hans-Hermann Hoppe, about monarchy and democracy’s incentive structures. There’s nothing wrong with discussing this, but it shocked someone. The response was pointing and shouting, no engagement, because we’re dealing with not very bright people on the far-left wing of our movement. How can you live under this system, see how impossible it is to move the needle even when most agree with you, and not question it? You can’t pinpoint who’s to blame or get anyone to listen—they just repeat slogans. What would it take for their brains to switch on?
Hans-Hermann Hoppe is a divisive thinker, though not in the way one might expect. He does not shout, nor does he sermonise. He reasons. And in A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline, published by the Mises Institute, he offers a calm but devastating account of how civilisation was built—and how it is now being dismantled, largely with democratic consent. It is not a cheerful book. But then again, neither is history.
At 113 pages, this is no sprawling chronicle. It is a tightly argued triptych of essays: “On the Origin of Private Property and the Family,” “From the Malthusian Trap to the Industrial Revolution,” and “From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy.” Each follows logically from the last, and each takes aim at a cherished myth of modernity. Progress, Hoppe reminds us, is real. But it is also reversible.
Oscar Grau has translated the resignation of Hans-Hermann Hoppe and other academics from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Germany, due to the recently award announced in favor of the president of Argentina, Javier Milei.
Renuncia al Consejo Asesor Científico del Instituto Ludwig von Mises Alemania
El 13 de julio de 2025, el Prof. Dr. Rolf W. Puster, el Prof. Dr. Jörg Guido Hülsmann y el Prof. Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe anunciaron su renuncia al Consejo Asesor Científico del Instituto Ludwig von Mises Alemania. Solo dos de los cinco miembros originales permanecen en dicho Consejo.
A continuación, Puster, Hülsmann y Hoppe explican los motivos de su dimisión. [continue reading…]
Jesús Huerta de Soto, “Long live freedom! Laudation for Javier Milei,” Misesde.org (26.06.2024) (which had the note: “Note: The contents of the articles do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Germany)
Resignation from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Germany
On 13 July 2025, Prof. Dr. Rolf W. Puster, Prof. Dr. Jörg Guido Hülsmann and Prof. Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe declared their resignation from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Germany. Only two of the original five members remain on that Board.
Below, Puster, Hülsmann and Hoppe explain the reasons for their resignation. [continue reading…]
Both books have passed the official appraisal of Shanghai Administration of Press and Publication, which is very good news. Furthermore, these two books will be included in the series of “Classics of the Austrian School of Economics”, in which we already have ten classic works translated and published in the market a few years ago.
Profesor Hoppe, en la actualidad la intervención estatal ha llegado a un punto álgido tanto en el ámbito económico como en el social. Muchos ciudadanos quieren más gobierno y menos mercado. ¿Cómo explica esto?
La historia demuestra que las crisis promueven la expansión del Estado. Eso es particularmente evidente con las guerras y los ataques terroristas. Los gobiernos utilizan esas crisis para presentarse como si fuesen ellos quienes fuesen a solucionar las crisis. Esto también es aplicable a las crisis financieras. Ha brindado a los gobiernos y a sus bancos centrales una oportunidad para intervenir todavía más en la economía y en la sociedad. Los representantes del gobierno se las han arreglado para echar la culpa de la crisis al capitalismo, a los mercados y a la avaricia.[continue reading…]
Filozofia polityczna Hansa-Hermanna Hoppego. Studium krytyczne (The Political Philosophy of Hans-Hermann Hoppe: A Critical Study) (Oficyna Wydawnicza, August 2024), a PhD dissertation by Norbert Slenzok, has recently been published (available only in Polish at present).
Abstract: The present book offers a critical examination of the political philosophy of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a leading libertarian thinker. In addition to expounding upon Hoppe’s philosophy, we also engage in assessing its truth value. This evaluation involves reinterpreting, reformulating, or even rejecting Hoppe’s arguments when necessary to refine and defend his overarching system. Indeed, it is exactly the book’s main thesis that Hoppean philosophy constitutes a full-fledged system. As is shown, that system springs up from epistemological rationalism (apriorism) conceived along the lines of Kantian transcendentalism and pragmatism, as reconstructed and integrated with one another by Karl-Otto Apel’s transcendental pragmatics of language, the Erlangen constructivist school, and Austrian school praxeology. This epistemological position underpins Hoppe’s greatest intellectual achievement: his argumentation ethics, which aims to establish the ultimate grounding for libertarian justice theory, centered around self-ownership and original acquisition. With epistemology and ethics as its pillars, Hoppe’s system extends to the core domains of political theory: anarchy and the state, philosophy of history, questions of culture and civilization, and the practical problems of political strategy.
I asked Grok4 (SuperGrok) and ChatGPT to provide executive summaries of Hoppe’s thought. Results below; I have not reviewed these.
My prompt:
Take these documents by Hans-Hermann Hoppe and provide an organized executive summary of Hoppe’s social thought: his economics and economic theory, his views on rights and libertarianism, democracy, immigration, and other issues. Organize it systematically, and include detailed links, references, footnotes/endnotes, and so on. Entitle this Hoppe’s Social Theory: An Executive Summary. Make this as detailed and comprehensive as possible and as long as necessary.
Taki Theodoracopulos LewRockwell.com, June 27, 2025
Both the system and the word “democracy” were invented by the Greeks, specifically the Athenians. “Demos” was the ancient word for “people,” hence the rule of the people is democracy. I’ve always preferred the selective kind, as practiced by the Brits until late in the 19th century—when one needed to own property before qualifying to vote—and the kind that made ancient Athens great, an obligatory education before being allowed to cast a ballot. That kept the demagogues in their place, because if you are correctly educated you can sniff out the fraud and duper from a mile away. [continue reading…]
Oscar Grau has translated into Spanish Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s blog responding to the remarks, insults and arguments recently uttered by Javier Milei, president of Argentina, in a speech in Madrid, Spain.
El Sr. Milei se considera un gran teórico monetario de la tradición austriaca. Para ilustrar su inigualable brillantez, he aquí dos reveladoras exposiciones. [continue reading…]
My latest for @mises : Hoppe is a great economist, @JMilei should just follow his advice and close the Argentinian central bank already! https://t.co/9IowIqPd2T
Mr. Milei fancies himself to be a great monetary theorist in the Austrian tradition. To illustrate his unrivalled brilliance here are two revealing exhibits.
The first exhibit concerns the consequences of the closure of the central bank that Milei has claimed, already before his election, to be a non-negotiable demand of his. This is certainly an interesting question worthy of careful analysis. Kristoffer Hansen, for instance, has provided such an analysis from an Austrian perspective. And here is Milei’s answer, then, provided before, and again at a recent major conference in Madrid as to why he hasn’t done so already: If you were to shut down the central bank, and no more pesos were printed, then the result would be hyperinflation! Huh? No more pesos being printed leads to hyperinflation. How in the world is that possible? Great mind this Milei. Yet if you doubt this conclusion he calls you an “imbecile.”
The second exhibit concerns the status of fiat currency. For Milei, the paper peso issued by the central bank represents government debt. And yet, if you were to present your paper pesos at the central bank and were to ask that it repay its debt, what would be its answer? Most likely the bank would declare you a nut, and offer you a new peso bill for your old one. And that would be it. Yet if you do not agree with Milei on fiat money being debt, he calls you an “idiot.”
Quoting Hansen, then, “Milei is no Austrian, and that he resorted to name-calling and quack theories in response to Hoppe’s calm critique suggests that he is not much of an economist either.”
Update: Curtis Yarvin’s Cranky Yearnings: “Running parallel to Yarvin’s radical libertarianism—which he believes will lead to human flourishing—is his conviction that there is no spontaneous order. Anarchism is anathema to him; he believes order must be imposed by a narrowly defined but unassailable state. He cites the Victorian thinker Thomas Carlyle, whom Yarvin describes as a “royalist libertarian,” as his inspiration for this position. And Yarvin’s turn against democracy and toward monarchy was in part midwifed by another radical libertarian, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, who argued democrats naturally follow short-term incentives and in doing so create unceasing risks to the state. Kings, on the other hand, are free to plan for the longer term, and are therefore superior.”
A couple of months ago the following correspondence took place. I knew of course what sort of publication The New Yorker is, and based on the very first question I was certain that my name would be mentioned, no matter what. Hence, to forestall any possible misrepresentation, I decided to reply. But I refused to simply talk and insisted on doing things in writing so that I could later prove what was and wasn’t said.
Dear Professor Hoppe,
I’m a writer at The New Yorker who is working on a story about the political blogger Curtis Yarvin. Mr. Yarvin has described you to me as one of his biggest influences. I just finished reading Democracy: The God That Failed, and it is evident just how influential it has been on his work. I’d be grateful to speak with you for the story about your philosophy and its influence on the neoreactionary movement here in the United States. Are there some windows you might be free to speak this week? [continue reading…]
Sascha Koll, “Jack Dorseys Kampf gegen geistige Monopole,” Freiheitsfunken Funken: Libertäre Glücksschmiede (April 24, 2025) (“Jack Dorsey’s fight against intellectual monopolies: A plea for a free market of ideas”). German translation below.
Professor Hoppe’s monograph Kritik der kausalwissenschaftlichen Sozialforschung: Untersuchungen zur Grundlegung von Soziologie und Ökonomie [Critique of Causal Scientific Social Research: Studies on the Foundation of Sociology and Economics] (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1983) has been translated into English by Andreas Tank. This monograph based is the published version of his “Habilitation” thesis, in Sociology and Economics, 1981, from the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main.
