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Professor Hoppe spoke at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies on November 9, 2011. The four videos (two lectures with Q & A, one interview, and one seminar with discussion) are below:

From the blog post at Mises.ro: Video: Colocviu despre Teoria socialismului ?i a capitalismului cu Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Theory of Socialism and Capitalism after 20 years. A Colloquium with the Author from Mises Romania on Vimeo.

The author Hans-Hermann Hoppe, the translator Emanuel-Mihail Socaciu, and the former president of the Mises Institute, Dan Cristian Com?nescu, comment on the significance and ideas of “A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism”, and the legacy of the private Mises Seminar in Bucharest. The comments are followed by questions from the audience.

At the invitation of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Romania, on November 8-11, 2011, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe visited Bucharest for a series of events celebrating 130 years since the birth of Ludwig von Mises and 10 years since the foundation of the Romanian Mises Institute.

Videos below:

Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Theory of Socialism and Capitalism after 20 years. A Colloquium with the Author

Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Theory of Socialism and Capitalism after 20 years. A Colloquium with the Author from Mises Romania on Vimeo.

On Politics, Money, and Banking

On Politics, Money, and Banking (Hans-Hermann Hoppe) from Mises Romania on Vimeo.

Entrepreneurship with Fiat Property and Fiat Money

History, Natural Elites, and State Elites. An Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans-Hermann Hoppe gives a speech on Entrepreneurship with Fiat Property and Fiat Money in the Aula Magna of the Romanian-American University in Bucharest, and answers questions from the audience.

At the invitation of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Romania, on November 8-11, 2011, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe visited Bucharest for a series of events celebrating 130 years since the birth of Ludwig von Mises and 10 years since the foundation of the Romanian Mises Institute.

History, Natural Elites, and State Elites. An Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe from Mises Romania on Vimeo.

Entrepreneurship with Fiat Property and Fiat Money (Hans-Hermann Hoppe) from Mises Romania on Vimeo.

Guy Kedem sent over a link to his article Dialogical Libertarianism: Ultimate Foundation of Ethics, which is a Hebrew-language discussion of Hoppe’s argumentation ethics theory of libertarian rights.

For more on argumentation ethics, see “Argumentation Ethics and Liberty: A Concise Guide,” Mises Daily (May 27, 2011) (includes “Discourse Ethics and Liberty: A Skeletal Ebook”).

There is a very interesting five part interview (a sixth part is forthcoming), Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part V – Dark Realities (see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4). It’s by Andrew Dittmer, who recently finished his PhD in mathematics at Harvard. Dittmer extensively quotes Hoppe’s writing from his Democracy book in this interview.

Update: Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part VI – Certainty.

De la théorie économique du laissez-faire à la politique du liberalisme has just been posted (see below). This is a French translation of chapter 11, “From the Economics of Laissez Faire to the Ethics of Libertarianism,” and the Appendix, “Four Critical Replies,” of The Economics and Ethics of Private Property.

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Professor Hoppe’s article, “Entrepreneurship With Fiat Property and Fiat Money,” was published today on LewRockwell.com, and is based on a speech first delivered at the Edelweiss Holdings Symposion held in Zuerich, Switzerland, on September 17, 2011.

Update: Republished in Mises Daily on Nov. 18, 2011.

Professor Hoppe has the following upcoming speaking events:

• Speaking at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies (November 9, 2011)
• Speaking at the Romanian-American University (November 10, 2011)
•  On November 21, at the invitation of Hong Kong’s Lion Rock Institute, he will speak at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong;
• On November 25 and 26, he will speak in Sydney, at a conference and seminar organized by the Australian Mises Institute;
•  On November 28, he will be a dinner speaker at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron;
• On November 30, Professor Hoppe will conduct a seminar at the Mannkal Foundation in Perth.

Professor Hoppe’s article, Social Democratic Hayek: An Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe by Mateusz Machaj, previously published in Polish as Socjaldemokratyczny Hayek, has been translated into Swedish as Intervju med Hans-Hermann Hoppe om Hayek, Mises Sweden, Oct. 13 2011.

Related articles by Professor Hoppe include: “Why Mises (and not Hayek)?“, Mises Daily (Oct. 10, 2011) and F.A. Hayek on Government and Social Evolution: A Critique, Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 7 Num. 1 (1994)

Professor Hoppe’s article, Why the State Demands Control of Money, was published in Mises Daily today. It is based on a speech delivered at the Mises Institute Supporters meeting, September 19–23, 2011, Vienna, Austria. The piece revisits issues discussed in his article Banking, Nation States and International Politics: A Sociological Reconstruction of the Present Economic Order, which also appears as Ch. 3 of his The Economics and Ethics of Private Property.

Update: This article was republished on 8/11/2021 on Mises.org.

Professor Hoppe’s article, Why Mises (and not Hayek)? (Oct. 4, 2011), was published in Mises Daily today. It is based on a speech delivered at the Mises Institute Supporters meeting, September 19-23, 2011, Vienna, Austria.

Professor Hoppe taught five classes at the Mises U 2011 in Auburn, Alabama, this past July, including his great speech The Science of Human Action, which kicked off Mises U (his other Mises U 2011 lectures are here). In this speech, Professor Hoppe discusses his intellectual biography and relationship with Rothbard, as well as the Austrian approach and methodology. While he was in town, Jeff Tucker conducted a fascinating interview with him (see video below). In this wide-ranging interview, Professor Hoppe discusses in more detail the history of his intellectual odyssey from leftist to Misesian-Rothbardian, his various books, various topics such as German reintegration, the centralizing effects of constitutions (including the US Constitution and EU), why states with more liberal economies are more imperialist, the interesting and heretofore undisclosed story of exactly how communist policies in East Germany led him to discover Mises, and more.

As announced on B.K. Marcus’s post at the Mises blog today (see below), the Hoppe festschrift that Guido Hülsmann and I edited, Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Mises Institute, 2009), which was already available in PDF and print, is now available in a free epub format as well. Kindle and other ebook formats should be available soon. The festschrift was presented to Professor Hoppe, just a month or so before his 60th birthday, at a private ceremony on July 29, 2009, in Auburn, AL during Mises University 2009 (see Hoppe Festschrift Published). Pictures from the ceremony are embedded below.

Hoppe’s Festschrift now in ePub

Property, Freedom, and Society: Marzipan in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Also, as I noted in Book Review of Hoppe Festschrift, David Howden wrote an excellent review of the festschrift in New Perspectives on Political Economy. And, as I noted in that post, and in Bodrum Days and Nights: The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: A Partial Report, as a piece of Festschrift trivia: at the recent Property and Freedom Society conference in Bodrum, Turkey, a guest presented a festschrift-cake he had had made in Estonia, entitled “Property, Freedom, and Society: Marzipan in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe,” which was served as part of the dessert at the closing banquet.

Reposted from Andy Duncan’s blog, The God that Failed:

Principato di Filettino: A step on the road to Hoppe World?

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Andy Duncan

In the magnificent Peter Sellers film, The Mouse That Roared, the strangely English-speaking Duchy of Grand Fenwick, a tiny nation between France and Switzerland, defeats the United States in a rather bizarre nuclear stand-off.

Will another such Duchy, the tiny Italian town of Filettino, similarly defeat the horrible coerced agglomeration known as Italy, inside the even more horrible coerced agglomeration known as the European Union?

We can but hope.

For Filettino has declared its independence from Rome, in a bid to emulate San Marino, Monaco, the Vatican City, and Andorra (and I suppose the Cantons of Switzerland itself, when they shook off the First Reich of the mass murderer Charlemagne, and his rotten Holy Roman Empire).

Obviously, we will see if Filettino’s independence lasts, or if it is just another political stunt, but it is an interesting event to witness nevertheless. For when in the future we look back from ‘Hoppe World’ and work out how we got there, historians will regard such incidents as being symptomatic of a wider terminal malaise of coerced collectivism:

• Italian town Filettino declares independence

Go Filettino!

Interviu cu Hans-Hermann Hoppe despre taxare, the Romanian translation of Professor Hoppe’s Philosophie Magazine Interview on Taxation, has just been posted on the Mises Romania site. It has also been translated into several other languages.

In this humorous interview parody, Exclusive Oliver Marc Hartwich Interview on Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Benjamin Marks skewers the confused criticism of Professor Hoppe’s ideas by one … confused critic.

PFS friend Benjamin Marks has a witty post about Professor Hoppe’s upcoming participation in the Australian Mises Seminar (25-26th November, 2011, Macquarie University, Sydney): Why the 2012 double Nobel laureate is coming to Sydney.

Professor Hoppe delivered the following lectures at Mises U 2011:

• Probability and Insurance (Saturday, July 30, 2011)
• Property and the Social Order (Thursday, July 28, 2011)
• Advanced Graduate Seminar (Tuesday, July 26, 2011)
• Praxeology: The Method of Economics (Monday, July 25, 2011)
• The Science of Human Action (Sunday, July 24, 2011)

“The Yield from Money Held” Reconsidered, Mises Daily (May 14, 2009)

Recent addition to online translations: ??-???·???????????????????, Chinese translation of Socialism: A Property or Knowledge Problem? (RAE, Vol. 9 Num. 1), translated by Nicolas DONG.