HansHoppe.com

Cross-posted at PFS Blog

Prof. Hoppe’s seminal A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism was previously translated into Spanish in 2013 as Una Teoría del Socialismo y el Capitalismo, translated and with a prologue by Juan Fernando Carpio (Editorial Innisree, 2013) (see Spanish Translation of A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism). A new edition is apparently now available: Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Socialismo y Capitalismo, Traducción de Juan Fernando Carpio (quien coordina la traducción), junto con Mariano Bas, Daniel Duarte, Dante Bayona y Gerardo Caprav. Coordinación editorial: Gilberto Ramírez. Prólogo de Jesús Huerta de Soto (Nueva Biblioteca de la Libertad 69. Madrid: Unión Editorial, 2026) (hardback; paperback).

A preview containing the Prólogo de Jesús Huerta de Soto is here (pdf); a Grok translation of Huerta de Soto’s Prologue (Foreword) is below. The 2026 translation unfortunately does not include Carpio’s excellent 2013 prologue  it is recommended.

From Espinosa:

This year’s book is an improved version based on Carpio’s translation, which I personally arranged with Unión Editorial at Juan Fernando Carpio’s request since 2019, but it’s only now being released. This version makes some corrections of errors in the first translation and also includes footnotes which were not present in the previous translation.

From Carpio:

This is based on my 2013 translation, revised and updated by the editor Gilberto, and printed for Spain and a larger audience than previous edition which was connected to USFQ and Innisfree limited (to South America) and ebook editions, as Spain and Union Editorial command a notably larger area of influence (including LatAm as Spain has leverage over LatAm culturally even to this day as it is still 100-200 years ahead etc).

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Die Ökonomie und Ethik des Privateigentums: Studium der politischen Ökonomie und Philosophie, Zweite Ausgabe (2026), a translation of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Economics and Ethics of Private Property, Second Edition (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2006) has been prepared. Text below and pdf here. Translated by Andreas Tank.

The paper version is now available for purchase here. According to the translator: “Anyone who orders from tredition (my print-on-demand provider) helps me generate significantly more revenue, also pays no shipping costs, and there it doesn’t go any faster or slower than anywhere else”

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From StephanKinsella.com:

Libertarians around the world are this year celebrating Murray Rothbard’s 100^th birthday. At the PFS we published a book in his honor, Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment, Stephan Kinsella and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, eds. (Papinian Press and The Saif House, 2026) on his 100^th birthday, March 2, 2026.

And next month, on June 27, 2026, comes the event “100 Years with Rothbard” (permalink) in Porto, Portugal.

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Martín Cabrera has translated into Spanish Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s “Mises Institute: Quo Vadis?: Postscript” (2026). [The text was also translated by Cristian Vasylenko, a frequent translator of Hoppe’s works, for the Rothbard Institute of Brazil.]

For more Spanish translations, click here.

Mises Institute: Quo Vadis?
Postscript

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
17 de abril de 2026

Property and Freedom Journal

Tras mi artículo original,[i] no ha habido ninguna reacción oficial por parte del Instituto Mises (MI), salvo el anuncio de dos frases hecho por sus dos nuevos directores ejecutivos en el que se me despojaba de mi título de Distinguished Senior Fellow, que había ostentado durante mucho tiempo.[ii]

Si acaso, esta reacción y lo ocurrido desde entonces no han hecho más que confirmar mis preocupaciones, críticas y sospechas, como señalaré brevemente a continuación. [continue reading…]

Professor Hoppe has published “Mises Institute: Quo Vadis?: Postscript,” Property and Freedom Journal (April 17, 2026). This is a follow-up to “Mises Institute: Quo Vadis?”, Property and Freedom Journal (March 25, 2026).

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.

1. Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Mises Institute: Quo Vadis?”, Property and Freedom Journal (March 25, 2026); Hoppe Removed as Mises Institute Senior Distinguished Fellow. [↩]

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!

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1. Shades of Day of the Long Knives. [↩]

Juan Fernando Carpio and Martín Cabrera have translated into Spanish Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s “De-Socialization in a United Germany” (1991). This article was originally published in The Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 5, N.º 2 (1991).

For more Spanish translations, click here.

Desocialización en una Alemania unificada

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Como resultado de la derrota de la Alemania hitleriana en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, unos diez millones de refugiados vivían en un territorio alemán drásticamente reducido; el 40 % de la población tenía sus hogares destruidos —la población de Colonia, por ejemplo, había descendido de 750 000 a 32 000 habitantes— y el 60 % estaba subalimentado.^[1] [continue reading…]

Translation of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Mises Institute: Quo Vadis?,” Property and Freedom Journal (March 25, 2026)

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Martín Cabrera has translated into Spanish Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s “Mises Institute: Quo Vadis?” (2026).

For more Spanish translations, click here.

Mises Institute: ¿Quo Vadis?

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
25 de marzo de 2026

Property and Freedom Journal

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, 2026

My 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 75^th 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 80^th 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

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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.

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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.

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1. For his “Habilitation” thesis, in Sociology and Economics, from Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, in 1981, see Hans-Hermann Hoppe, 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); Kinsella, Hoppe’s Habilitation Thesis: Critique of Causal Scientific Social Research. [↩]
2. See Kinsella, Revisiting Argumentation Ethics; Discourse Ethics entry in Wikipedia (which yours truly started, and which has more on Hoppe and Habermas). [↩]
3. Kinsella, Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethics and Its Critics. [↩]
4. Hoppe, My Discovery of Human Action and of Mises as a Philosopher; PFP163 | Hans Hermann Hoppe, “On The Ethics of Argumentation” (PFS 2016), and other references in Kinsella, “Argumentation Ethics and Liberty: A Concise Guide” (2011) and Supplemental Resources. [↩]
5. See Magness on Hoppe; the Kochtopus and the Mises Caucus; see also Prychitko on Habermas and Austrianism: Where’s Hoppe?; Hoppe: Habermas’s Anarcho-Conservative Student. [↩]

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).

Getting Libertarianism Right (Mises 2018): Libertarismus richtig verstehen (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).