Now available: Ekonomi och praxeologi, translation of Economic Science and the Austrian Method
Below is an English translation of Professor Hoppe’s interview by “Wirtschaftswoche”, Germany’s leading business-weekly. The interview covers various topics, including the business cycle, the nature of the state, anarcho-capitalism, taxation as expropriation, and the like.
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Interview in Wirtschaftswoche
“Taxes are expropriation”
by Malte Fischer
The anarcho-libertarian economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe argues for a state-free society. Where government has, for example, no right to compel the citizens to pay taxes to finance armed forces.
Business Week:
Professor Hoppe, We currently have booming state intervention in both the economy and in society again. Many citizens want more government and less market. How do you explain that?
Hoppe:
History shows that crises promote the growth of the state. This is particularly evident in wars and terrorist attacks. Governments use such crises in order to pose as crisis-solvers. This also applies to the financial crisis. It has provided the governments and central banks with a welcome opportunity to intervene even more in the economy and society. Government representatives have managed to lay the blame for the crisis on capitalism, the markets and greed.
Without the intervention of central banks and governments in the form of liquidity injections and stimulus programs, wouldn’t the world have been thrown into a deep depression like in the 1930s?
There is a misconception that governments and central banks can aid the economy with programs to help it bounce back. Even in the 1930s in the USA there were economic stimulus programs. But the Great Depression did not end until after the Second World War. In prior years, the U.S. unemployment never fell below 15 percent. The banks were hoarding the central bank money, instead of using it to lend.
The current circumstances are similar. The money is not getting into the goods markets, therefore the prices of commodities barely rise. But that does not mean that there is no inflation. You just have to look at how the stock markets are developing to identify where the money is going. Inflation is taking place on the asset markets. [continue reading…]
Professor Hoppe has been interviewed by “Wirtschaftswoche”, Germany’s leading business-weekly:
Update: English translation of the interview; Italian translation
And for a special treat, a video of Professor Hoppe making schnitzel at the 2013 Annual Meeting (on the PFS Youtube channel).
Interview mit Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Die logische Schönheit des Libertarismus, in eigentümlich frei, Aug. 8, 2013 has just been published, which is a German translation of Cultura e liberdade – uma entrevista com Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Brazilian Philosophy Magazine Dicta & Contradicta Interviews Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Portugese); English translation: The Logical Beauty of Libertarianism.
Several works by Professor Hoppe and commentaries on his work are now available in Japanese. Including English, Professor Hoppe’s writing is now available in 27 languages.
- The Economics and Ethics of Private Property Part 1, 私有財産の経済学と倫理学 第一部
- Fallacies of the Public Goods Theory and the Production of Security (The Economics and Ethics of Private Property) 公共財理論と安全性の提供における誤謬
- The Economics and Sociology of Taxation (The Economics and Ethics of Private Property) 課税の経済学と社会学
- Banking, Nation States, and International Politics (The Economics and Ethics of Private Property) 銀行業、国民国家と国際政治
- Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis (The Economics and Ethics of Private Property) マルクス主義者とオーストリア派の階級分析
- Theory of Employment, Money, Interest and the Capitalist Process: The Misesian Case Against Keynes (The Economics and Ethics of Private Property) 雇用、貨幣、利子、及び資本主義過程の理論－
ケインズに対するミーゼス派の主張 - How is Fiat Money Possible? – or, The Devolution of Money and Credit (The Economics and Ethics of Private Property) 法定不換紙幣―つまり貨幣と預金の退化―
は如何にして起こりうるのか - Against Fiduciary Media (The Economics and Ethics of Private Property) 信用媒体に反対する
- Socialism: A Property or Knowledge Problem? (The Economics and Ethics of Private Property) 社会主義-財産の問題か、あるいは知識の問題か
- The Economics and Ethics of Private Property Part 1 (On-demand,paperback) 私有財産の経済学と倫理学（第一部）
- Commentary: by Kazunori Echigo, Shiga University professor emeritus in Japan: Kazunori Echigo ‘Neo-Austrian School and the Opponent’ 越後和典「新オーストリア学派とその論敵」
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Achievement: Protection of Gold Standard and Free Banking ハンス＝ヘルマン・ホッペの業績 金本位制と自由銀行業の擁護
- The Critical Review of Keynes’s The General Theory: The Achievement of Hans-Hermann Hoppe ケインズ「一般理論」の批判的考察 ハンス＝ハーマン・ホップの業績
- Political Economy of Monarchy and Democracy: The Achievement of Hans-Hermann Hoppe 君主制と民主制の政治経済学 ハンス─ヘルマン・ホッペの業績
The Croatian and Serbian translations of Professor Hoppe’s speech Staat oder Privatrechtsgesellschaft? (State or Private Law Society) delivered at the 14th Philosophicum Lech is now available at the following links:
Croatian Translation: Država ili društvo privatnog prava?
Serbian Translation: Država ili društvo privatnog prava?
Below is a recent post from Mises Deutschland: Of the Moral and Economic Benefit of Tax-Evasion (in German), Vom moralischen und wirtschaftlichen Wohl der Steuerhinterziehun.
A Spanish translation of Prof. Hoppe’s seminal A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism is now available, as Una Teoría del Socialismo y el Capitalismo, translated by and with a new Foreword by Prof. Juan Fernando Carpio. Barnes & Noble; Casa del Libro; epub; pdf.
Update: See also Presentando al prof. Hoppe la traducción de su libro; photo below.
The Brazilian Philosophy Magazine Dicta & Contradicta Interviews Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Would the change from a statist to a libertarian society help or hinder the production of high culture?
Hoppe: A libertarian society would be significantly more prosperous and wealthy and this would certainly help both low and high culture. But a free society – a society without taxes and tax-subsidies and without so-called “intellectual property rights” – would produce a very differentculture, with a very different set of products, producers, stars and failures.
You see a causal link between a society’s form of government and its moral values and social development. Do you see a similar link between type of government and aesthetic standards and quality of art and entertainment?
Hoppe: Yes I do. Democratic state government systematically promotes egalitarianism and relativism. In the field of human interaction, it leads to the subversion and ultimately disappearance of the idea of eternal and universal principles of justice. Law is swamped and submerged by legislation. In the field of the arts and of aesthetic judgment, democracy leads to the subversion and ultimately disappearance of the notion of beautyand universal standards of beauty. Beauty is swamped and submerged by so-called “modern art.” [continue reading…]
Prof. Hoppe spoke (in German) on the topic “On Taxes and Parasites,” at the occasion of the inaugural conference of the Ludwig von Mises Institut Deutschland, held at Hotel Bayerischer Hof, in Munich, on June 15, 2013.
Update: text:
From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy
The following is a video of Prof. Hoppe speaking at the Rafael del Pino Foundation’s Master Lecture Series in Madrid, Spain, on June 20, 2013: “From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy: A Tale of Moral and Economic Folly and Decay.”
From the UK publication The Libertarian:
Hans-Hermann Hoppe in 10 Great Quotes
by Eric Field,
By Eric Field
Hans-Hermann Hoppe is one of the most defining of contemporary libertarian thinkers. A graduate of the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany and a former Marxist, Hoppe’s is best known for his rigorously logical examination of culture, human action, and the state. Hoppe has at times courted controversy for his belief that natural hierarchies are essential to human liberty. Regardless of whether or not one agrees with much of Hoppe’s statements, he has greatly improved the quality of libertarian discourse. So much so, that “Hoppean” has become a synonym for rigorously supported scholarly support for libertarianism.
Ekonomia I Eytka Własności Prywatnej, the Polish translation of Professor Hoppe’s The Economics and Ethics of Private Property, is now available.
See also: Etica y Economia de la Propiedad Privada, Spanish translation of The Ethics and Economics of Private Property.
Economía Y Ética de la Propiedad Privada, the Spanish translation of Professor Hoppe’s The Economics and Ethics of Private Property, is available at the following links:
- PDF version available here
- Paper edition: http://amzn.to/13Fq0Rq
- Electronic edition for América: http://amzn.to/10mk2al
- Electronic edition for Spain:http://amzn.to/12lXSal
See also: Etica y Economia de la Propiedad Privada, Spanish translation of The Ethics and Economics of Private Property
German translation of the speech presented at the 2012 PFS meeting: Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “The Hayek Myth” (PFS 2012).
To right is the cover of Monarquia, Democracia Y Orden Natural. Una Vision Austriaca De La Era Americana (2nd Spanish edition of Democracy: The God That Failed), trans. and prologue by Prof. Jeronimo Molina (University of Murcia). It can be ordered by email; see also this link.
Online reviews and discussion include:
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe: razÛn y libertad (RecensiÛn: MonarquÌa, democracia y orden natural), Liberalismo.org, por Antonio MuÒoz Ballesta
- La Monarquia, revindicada (local PDF copy), por Juan Ram ón Rallo
- Hoppe en Madrid: dos teorias morales, por Daniel Rodríguez Herrera
See also
- Auge y Caída de la Ciudad (The Rise and Fall of the City, Mises.org, Nov. 23, 2005 (an extract of chapter 9 of Democracy: The God That Failed)), traducción de Rodrigo Betancur
- Monarquia, Democracia y Orden Natural, Spanish translation of The Political Economy of Monarchy and Democracy, and the Idea of a Natural Order, Journal of Libertarian Studies Vol. 11 Num. 2.
- Problemas de la Democracia, La Revista de Libertad Digital, Viernes, 5 de Noviembre de 2004 (also published in Diario de America and Venezuela Analitica); abbreviated Spanish version of Down With Democracy, Enterprise and Education, The Association of Private Enterprise Education Newsletter, Summer 1995.
For other Spanish translations of Hoppe’s works, see here.
Professor Hoppe’s Economic Science and the Austrian Method has been translated into Chinese by Hongchao Tan.
