From Property and Freedom Blog:
Dear Hans,
Given the nature of your recent public statements about the Mises Institute, 1 we hereby grant you a Distinguished Eternal Fellow designation. We will host more than ever your past, present and future articles, books, and lectures on rothbardbrasil.com.
Cross-posted at PFS Blog
This is April 1, but this is not an April Fool’s Day joke (I despise April Fool’s Day jokes).
In response to “Mises Institute: Quo Vadis?,” Property and Freedom Journal (March 25, 2026), Professor Hoppe has been removed as a Distinguished Senior Fellow (~2000–2026) with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, as indicated in the following email exchange. Hans was appointed Senior Fellow early in his association with the Mises Institute, which began when he moved to the US to study with Rothbard in 1985, and elevated to Distinguished Senior Fellow around 2000 or so. Hans remains the only person to have ever received this distinction from the Mises Institute; it now has no one with this designation. 1
In response to all this, Hans asked me to post this image:
Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito!
The Spanish translation of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “De-Socialization in a United Germany,” Rev. Austrian Econ. 5, no. 2 (1991): 77–104 is below. [continue reading…]
Translation of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Mises Institute: Quo Vadis?,” Property and Freedom Journal (March 25, 2026)
Translation of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Mises Institute: Quo Vadis?,” Property and Freedom Journal (March 25, 2026)
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
25 de marzo de 2026
Traducido al español por Martín Cabrera
Mi estrecha y personal relación con el Mises Institute se remonta a más de 40 años, concretamente, a 1985, apenas tres años después de la fundación del Instituto. A lo largo de los años he impartido decenas y decenas de conferencias. He recibido su Schlarbaum Prize y la Rothbard Medal. Durante una década fui editor de su Journal of Libertarian Studies. Soy el único Distinguished Senior Fellow de larga data del MI. Hace apenas dos años, en 2024, fui ponente destacado en la Human Action Conference del Instituto, y en esa ocasión se celebró mi 75º cumpleaños. Ese mismo año envié esta nota de felicitación a Lew Rockwell con motivo de los festejos organizados en honor a su propio 80º cumpleaños: [continue reading…]
I have today published Mises Institute: Quo Vadis? and as Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Mises Institute: Quo Vadis?,” Property and Freedom Journal (March 25, 2026).
Update: Hoppe Removed as Mises Institute Senior Distinguished Fellow
Mises Institute: Quo Vadis?
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
March 25, 2026My close, personal association with the Mises Institute goes back more than 40 years, to 1985, only three years after the Institute’s founding. In the course of the years I have given dozens upon dozens of lectures. I have been awarded its Schlarbaum Prize and the Rothbard Medal. For a decade, I served as editor of its Journal of Libertarian Studies. I am the MI’s only long standing Distinguished Senior Fellow. Only two years ago, in 2024, I was a featured speaker at the Institute’s Human Action Conference, and my 75th birthday was celebrated at the occasion. In the same year I sent this congratulatory note to Lew Rockwell at the occasion of the festivities organized in honor of his own 80th birthday:
Dear Lew, to your 80th birthday I send you my best wishes and want to say thanks for by now almost 40 years of friendship and intellectual camaraderie.
I know you are too humble to say this, but I can certainly do it: You rank among the most brilliant commentators and analysts of the present age and you are the world’s greatest living promoter of sound economics in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard and, more generally, of liberty, peace, common sense, and reason.
Your legacy is assured: You are already a legend.
Yours truly,
Hans
See also recent commentary on Hoppe: Mises Institute: Quo Vadis?, by Bretigne Shaffer, “This Breaks My Heart: Is the Mises Institute built on a shaky foundation?“, On the Banks (Mar 26, 2026) (Bretigne is Butler Shaffer‘s daughter).
https://t.co/QiullNorJR@HoppeQuotes @mises
— Bretigne Shaffer (@Bretigne) March 26, 2026
Professor Hoppe’s Economic Science and the Austrian Method (1995) has been translated into Greek as Η Οικονομική Επιστήμη και η Αυστριακή Μέθοδος (pdf; docx). Text below.
According to the translator, the aptly soi-disant Praxeologos,
Introducing this important work to a Greek audience that is largely unfamiliar with economics (and that includes Professors of Economics) would be of real value.
Please note that the translation includes the recommended bibliography in its original English form, but the footnotes are still missing.
From The Property and Freedom Blog:
Neo-Marxist German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died; see Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96 (AP, March 14, 2026).
As admirers of Hans-Hermann Hoppe know, Habermas was one of Hoppe’s teachers and the principal advisor for his doctoral dissertation in Philosophy on David Hume and Immanuel Kant at Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main from 1968–1974, Handeln und Erkennen [Action and Cognition] (Bern 1976) ). (At the time of time of his PhD dissertation, Hoppe was 24. He regards his “habilitation” thesis, written by the time he has reached intellectual maturity, and of course later work, as far more important than the PhD dissertation.) 1 Hoppe soon abandoned the leftism of Habermas and the Frankfurt School and adopted Misesian Austrian economics and Rothbardian anarchist libertarianism. As Grok and ChatGPT recognize, Hoppe is Habermas’s most famous but politically distant student (other prominent students of Habermas including more aligned figures like Axel Honneth, Rainer Forst, Claus Offe, and Hans Joas).
One thing Habermas became known for was his “discourse ethics”; 2 Hoppe later relied to some degree on aspects of this theory, and to a greater degree on the more coherent and fleshed out views of fellow leftist German philosopher Karl-Otto Apel, 3 in developing his own “argumentation ethics” radical defense of libertarian rights. 4 Some Hoppe critics have overstated impact of Habermas’s ideas on Hoppe’s views; for example, back in 2019, Hoppe-basher Phil Magness made a confused attempt to try to link Hoppe’s views on immigration to his Habermas, even though analysis of democracy and immigration and related views has nothing whatsoever to do with Habermas. 5 Even Hoppe’s rights theory has only a slight connection to Habermas; Hoppe was actually not even aware of Habermas’s discourse ethics when studying under him.
Recently translated into German, by Andreas Tank:
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis,” J. Libertarian Stud. 9, no. 2 (Fall 1990): 79–93, also in EEPP: “Wo Marx richtig liegt” (“What Marx Gets Right”) (pdf).
“Socialism: Social-Democratic Style,” ch. 4 of A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism (Kluwer, 1989; Mises Institute reprint, 2007; Laissez Faire Books, 2013): title translated as “Social Democracy,” “Sozialdemokratie” (pdf).
“Natural Elites, Intellectuals, and the State,” Mises Daily (07/21/2006): “Natürliche Eliten, Intellektuelle und der Staat” (pdf).
The Private Production of Defense, Ludwig von Mises Institute Essays in Political Economy (alternate version, from Journal of Libertarian Studies 14:1 (Winter 1998-1999): 27-52) (also in The Great Fiction): Die Privatisierung der Verteidigung (pdf).
Recently translated into German, by Andreas Tank:
A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism (Kluwer, 1989; Mises Institute reprint, 2007; Laissez Faire Books, 2013): Eine Theorie über Sozialismus und Kapitalismus (pdf).
From the Property and Freedom Blog:
From an email sent to PFS Members today:
Dear PFS Members,
As you know, earlier this month we published, on Murray Rothbard’s 100th Birthday, March 2, 2026, Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment online in digital format, and we are working on kindle, paperback, and deluxe hardcover/cloth editions which will be released well before our upcoming 20th Anniversary PFS meeting in September.
Appreciative of our efforts at the PFS to prepare and publish this book, and aware that such books are usually produced at a loss, some PFS members and friends have expressed an interest in helping to defray PFS costs associated with this and other projects. Accordingly, we will list Patrons in the published version of the book and provide a signed copy of the hardback to each Patron (after the 2026 PFS Annual Meeting, when many of the contributors will be available for signing). [continue reading…]
German translation of Hoppe’s “Introduction” to Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment (Papinian Press and The Saif House, 2026), by Andreas Tank:
Hoppe, Einleitung
– Aus Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment, Stephan Kinsella und Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Hrsg. (Houston: Papinian Press and Property and Freedom Society, 2026) –
Als Gülçin und ich im Mai 2006 das Karia Princess für das erste Treffen der Property and Freedom Society (PFS) eröffneten, waren viele organisatorische und inhaltliche Fragen in unseren Köpfen noch ungelöst. Es dauerte Jahre des Experimentierens und Lernens: des Definierens, Verfeinerns und Optimierens des Produkts, das heute die PFS und ihr jährlicher Salon ist. [continue reading…]
La Grande Fiction: L’État, cet imposteur (Éditions Le Drapeau blanc, 13 Oct. 2016), a French translation of The Great Fiction, with a preface by Guido Hülsmann, a translation of the which (by Google; not yet revised) is below. (Improved translation in the works from Stephane Geyres)
by Jörg Guido Hülsmann [continue reading…]
Danish translation of A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline forthcoming, by Rasmus Hansen, co-founder SHOP21.DK, who has previously published several Mises Institute books into Danish in collaboration with Jonas Ejlersen (Anatomy of the State, For a New Liberty, What Has Government Done to Our Money?).
