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Hans-Hermann Hoppe Bio
June 2006
Professor Hoppe was born on September 2, 1949, in Peine, West Germany. He attended the
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/M, and the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, for studies in Philosophy, Sociology, History, and Economics. He earned his Ph.D.
(Philosophy, 1974) and his “Habilitation” (Sociology and Economics, 1981), both from the
Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main.
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 of Rothbard until his death in January, 1995.
An Austrian school economist and libertarian/anarcho-capitalist philosopher,
he is currently Professor
of Economics at UNLV, Distinguished Fellow with the
Ludwig von Mises Institute, Founder and President of The Property and Freedom Society (2006-present), and
Editor-at-Large of the Journal of Libertarian Studies.
In addition to his recent English-language books, Professor Hoppe is the author of Handeln und Erkennen (Bern 1976); Kritik der kausalwissenschaftlichen
Sozialforschung (Opladen 1983); Eigentum, Anarchie und Staat (Opladen 1987) and numerous articles on
philosophy, economics and the social sciences.
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