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In 2001, Hoppe published '']''. In it, Hoppe compares ] with ] ]. Hoppe states that ]s inherent in a ] make it more prone to destroy wealth than a comparable monarchical regime. Hoppe states that because citizens of a democracy are able to participate in government, their resistance to abuse of government power is less than in monarchies, in which abusive rulers were often overthrown and killed. In 2001, Hoppe published '']''. In it, Hoppe compares ] with ] ]. Hoppe states that ]s inherent in a ] make it more prone to destroy wealth than a comparable monarchical regime. Hoppe states that because citizens of a democracy are able to participate in government, their resistance to abuse of government power is less than in monarchies, in which abusive rulers were often overthrown and killed.


=== Allegations of homophobia ===
⚫ Hoppe wrote in the book: "They – the advocates of alternative, non-family and kin-centred lifestyles such as, for instance, individual hedonism, parasitism, nature-environment worship, homosexuality, or communism – will have to be physically removed from society, too, if one is to maintain a libertarian order."<ref> by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Transaction Publishers, 2001). {{page needed |date=May 2013}}</ref>


On the basis of portions of the book, Hoppe was accused of ] by a number of contemporaries. Economist ] suggested Hoppe had advocated for coercive violence against homosexuals. The accusations stem from a particular passage<ref> by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Transaction Publishers, 2001)</ref>;
], a colleague of Hoppe's at the ], wrote that Hoppe's comments calling for "homosexuals and others to be banned from polite society" was "exceedingly difficult to reconcile it with libertarianism" because "the libertarian philosophy would support the rights of both groups to act

in such manners."<ref> by ] (]) p. 22-23</ref> ] wrote that Hoppe was referring to "private, covenant-based communities—in particular the ones based on more traditional, culturally-conservative heterosexual-family-based norms—who would tend to 'be intolerant of advocates of' ideas incompatible with, or openly hostile to, or 'contrary to the very purpose of' the norms of such a traditionalist covenant."<ref>] , ], 27 May 2010.</ref>
⚫ {{quotation|They – the advocates of alternative, non-family and kin-centred lifestyles such as, for instance, individual hedonism, parasitism, nature-environment worship, homosexuality, or communism – will have to be physically removed from society, too, if one is to maintain a libertarian order.}}

Block, a friend and colleague of Hoppe's at the ], criticized Hoppe's comments as calling for "homosexuals to be banned from polite society." Though Block had previously stated he "abhors" homosexuality,<ref> by ] (Journal of Libertarian Studies, Fall 1994) p. 177-128</ref> he criticized Hoppe for (in his view) advocating aggressive violence against homosexuals.<ref> by ] (]) p. 22-23</ref> Defenders of Hoppe, such as ], claim he is referring only to "advocates" of homosexuality rather than to all homosexuals and that the "physical removal" of the former would be permissible and non-aggressive, so long as it were done in accordance with private property rights.<ref> by ] (The Lew Rockwell Blog, 27 May 2010)</ref>


==Immigration== ==Immigration==
{{Section OR|date=April 2013}}


Hoppe has advanced the position that in a non anarcho-capitalist society some restrictions on immigration are a "second best" option.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Hoppe|first=Hans Hermann|title=Natural Order, The State, and The Immigration Problem|journal=Journal of Libertarian Studies|year=2002|month=Winter|volume=16|issue=1}}</ref>{{primary source-inline|date=April 2013}} Hoppe has advanced the position that in a non anarcho-capitalist society some restrictions on immigration are a "second best" option.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Hoppe|first=Hans Hermann|title=Natural Order, The State, and The Immigration Problem|journal=Journal of Libertarian Studies|year=2002|month=Winter|volume=16|issue=1}}</ref>


{{quotation|First, with the establishment of a state and territorially defined state borders, “immigration” takes on an entirely new meaning. In a natural order, immigration is a person’s migration from one neighborhood-community into a different one (micro-migration). In contrast, under statist conditions immigration is immigration by “foreigners” from across state borders, and the decision whom to exclude or include, and under what conditions, rests not with a multitude of independent private property owners or neighborhoods of owners but with a single central (and centralizing) state-government as the ultimate sovereign of all domestic residents and their properties (macro-migration). If a domestic resident-owner invites a person and arranges for his access onto the resident-owner’s property but the government excludes this person from the state territory, it is a case of forced exclusion (a phenomenon that does not exist in a natural order). On the other hand, if the government admits a person while there is no domestic resident-owner who has invited this person onto his property, it is a case of forced integration (also non-existent in a natural order, where all movement is invited).}} {{quotation|First, with the establishment of a state and territorially defined state borders, “immigration” takes on an entirely new meaning. In a natural order, immigration is a person’s migration from one neighborhood-community into a different one (micro-migration). In contrast, under statist conditions immigration is immigration by “foreigners” from across state borders, and the decision whom to exclude or include, and under what conditions, rests not with a multitude of independent private property owners or neighborhoods of owners but with a single central (and centralizing) state-government as the ultimate sovereign of all domestic residents and their properties (macro-migration). If a domestic resident-owner invites a person and arranges for his access onto the resident-owner’s property but the government excludes this person from the state territory, it is a case of forced exclusion (a phenomenon that does not exist in a natural order). On the other hand, if the government admits a person while there is no domestic resident-owner who has invited this person onto his property, it is a case of forced integration (also non-existent in a natural order, where all movement is invited).}}


Walter Block wrote about Hoppe's immigration position in a 1999 article, "A Libertarian Case for Free Immigration."<ref>Block, Walter. "A Libertarian Case for Free Immigration." ''Journal of Libertarian Studies''. Vol. 13, No. 2. 1999. </ref>{{request quotation|date=April 2013}} Hoppe's views on immigration are controversial within the wider libertarian movement. Walter Block offered arguments against Hoppe's immigration position in a 1999 article, "A Libertarian Case for Free Immigration."<ref>Block, Walter. "A Libertarian Case for Free Immigration." ''Journal of Libertarian Studies''. Vol. 13, No. 2. 1999. </ref>{{request quotation|date=April 2013}}


==Academic freedom controversy== ==Academic freedom controversy==
On March 4, 2004, during a lecture in a course on money and banking, Hoppe hypothesized that homosexuals will generally display shorter ] for capital consumption because they tend not to have biological heirs and thus have a lesser incentive to engage in long-term saving. One of Hoppe's students characterized the remarks as derogatory and a matter of opinion rather than fact.<ref>''Professor, ACLU may sue UNLV'' by Justin Chomintra (''The Rebel Yell'', February 10, 2005)</ref> On 4 March 2004, during a lecture in a course on money and banking, Hoppe hypothesized that homosexuals will generally display shorter ] for capital consumption because they tend not to have biological heirs and thus have a lesser incentive to engage in long-term saving. One of Hoppe's students characterized this statement as ] and a matter of opinion rather than fact.<ref>''Professor, ACLU may sue UNLV'' by Justin Chomintra (The Rebel Yell, 10 February 2005)</ref>


The university's provost, ], issued Hoppe a non-disciplinary letter of instruction on February 9, 2005, with a finding that he had: The university's provost, ], issued Hoppe with a ''non-disciplinary letter of instruction'' on February 9, 2005, finding that he had<ref> from ] (], 9 February 2005)</ref>:


{{quotation|...created a hostile or intimidating educational environment in violation of the University's policies regarding discrimination as to sexual orientation.<ref> from ] (], 9 February 2005)</ref>}} {{quotation|...created a hostile or intimidating educational environment in violation of the University's policies regarding discrimination as to sexual orientation.}}


Alden also instructed Hoppe to "...cease mischaracterizing opinion as objective fact". Hoppe appealed the decision and was represented by the ]. He responded by saying the university had, "blatantly violated its contractual obligations" toward him and described the action as, "frivolous interference with my right to academic freedom". Nine days later, on February 18, 2005, ], President of UNLV, issued a further letter stating: The university also instructed Hoppe to "...cease mischaracterizing opinion as objective fact". Hoppe was represented by the ] and responded by suggesting that the university had, "blatantly violated its contractual obligations" toward him and described the action as, "frivolous interference with my right to academic freedom". 9 days later, on February 18, 2005, ], president of UNLV, issued a further letter stating<ref></ref>:


{{quotation|UNLV, in accordance with policy adopted by the Board of Regents, understands that the freedom afforded to Professor Hoppe and to all members of the academic community carries a significant corresponding academic responsibility. In the balance between freedoms and responsibilities, and where there may be ambiguity between the two, academic freedom must, in the end, be foremost.<ref></ref>}} {{quotation|UNLV, in accordance with policy adopted by the Board of Regents, understands that the freedom afforded to Professor Hoppe and to all members of the academic community carries a significant corresponding academic responsibility. In the balance between freedoms and responsibilities, and where there may be ambiguity between the two, academic freedom must, in the end, be foremost.}}


Harter dismissed the discrimination charge and the non-disciplinary letter was withdrawn from Hoppe's personnel file.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Snyder|first=Martin D.|title=Birds of a Feather?|journal=Academe|date=March 1, 2005|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-829841891.html|accessdate=April 17, 2013, from ]|publisher=American Association of University Professors}}</ref> Harter dismissed the discrimination charge and the ''non-disciplinary'' letter was withdrawn from Hoppe's personnel file.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Snyder|first=Martin D.|title=Birds of a Feather?|journal=Academe|date=March 1, 2005|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-829841891.html|accessdate=April 17, 2013, from ]|publisher=American Association of University Professors}}</ref>


==Works== ==Works==

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Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Born (1949-09-02) September 2, 1949 (age 75)
Peine, West Germany
NationalityGerman American
Academic career
FieldAustrian Economics, Political Philosophy
InstitutionUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas
School or
tradition		Austrian School
Alma materGoethe University Frankfurt
InfluencesLudwig von Mises
Murray Rothbard
Jürgen Habermas
Karl-Otto Apel
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
ContributionsArgumentation ethics, Analysis of democracy and public goods theory
AwardsThe Frank T. and Harriet Kurzweg Award (2004)
The Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize (2006)

Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Template:IPA-de; born September 2, 1949) is a libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher and an Austrian school economist. although he prefers to be known as an advocate of private law society. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Hoppe is the author of several books and his work has been translated into 22 languages. He is currently living with his wife in Istanbul, Turkey.

Career

Born in Peine, West Germany, he attended the Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, and the University of Frankfurt, studying philosophy, sociology, history, and economics. He began his graduate studies reading Marxist thought, under Prof. Jürgen Habermas. After reading Eugen Böhm von Bawerk's criticism of Marxism his orientation began to change.. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Goethe University Frankfurt in 1974. He was later a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, from 1976 to 1978. He earned his habilitation in Foundations of Sociology and Economics from the University of Frankfurt in 1981. He taught at several German universities and at Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center for Advanced International Studies, Italy. In 1986, he moved from Germany to the United States, where he was associated with Murray Rothbard. until the latter's death in January 1995. Hoppe was Professor in the School of Business at University of Nevada, Las Vegas until his retirement in 2008. He was involved in the formation of what came to be called paleo-libertarianism.

Hoppe has been editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies, coeditor of the Review of Austrian Economics, and coeditor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and the author of several articles and books. In 2006, he founded The Property & Freedom Society.

Argumentation ethics

Main article: Argumentation ethics

Hoppe stated his theory of Argumentation ethics as an attempt to establish a priori and value-neutral justification for libertarian ethics.

Hoppe outlined his concept in the publication Liberty in September 1988. In the following issue, the publication carried comments from a number of libertarian thinkers followed by a response to the comments from Hoppe. In his comment, Murray Rothbard wrote that Hoppe's theory was, "a dazzling breakthrough for political philosophy in general and for libertarianism in particular" and that Hoppe, "has managed to transcend the famous is/ought, fact/value dichotomy that has plagued philosophy since the days of the Scholastics, and that had brought modern libertarianism into a tiresome deadlock".

Democracy: The God That Failed

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Main article: Democracy: The God That Failed

In 2001, Hoppe published Democracy: The God That Failed. In it, Hoppe compares monarchies with democratic states. Hoppe states that perverse incentives inherent in a democracy make it more prone to destroy wealth than a comparable monarchical regime. Hoppe states that because citizens of a democracy are able to participate in government, their resistance to abuse of government power is less than in monarchies, in which abusive rulers were often overthrown and killed.

Allegations of homophobia

On the basis of portions of the book, Hoppe was accused of homophobia by a number of contemporaries. Economist Walter Block suggested Hoppe had advocated for coercive violence against homosexuals. The accusations stem from a particular passage;

They – the advocates of alternative, non-family and kin-centred lifestyles such as, for instance, individual hedonism, parasitism, nature-environment worship, homosexuality, or communism – will have to be physically removed from society, too, if one is to maintain a libertarian order.

Block, a friend and colleague of Hoppe's at the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, criticized Hoppe's comments as calling for "homosexuals to be banned from polite society." Though Block had previously stated he "abhors" homosexuality, he criticized Hoppe for (in his view) advocating aggressive violence against homosexuals. Defenders of Hoppe, such as Stephan Kinsella, claim he is referring only to "advocates" of homosexuality rather than to all homosexuals and that the "physical removal" of the former would be permissible and non-aggressive, so long as it were done in accordance with private property rights.

Immigration

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Hoppe has advanced the position that in a non anarcho-capitalist society some restrictions on immigration are a "second best" option.

First, with the establishment of a state and territorially defined state borders, “immigration” takes on an entirely new meaning. In a natural order, immigration is a person’s migration from one neighborhood-community into a different one (micro-migration). In contrast, under statist conditions immigration is immigration by “foreigners” from across state borders, and the decision whom to exclude or include, and under what conditions, rests not with a multitude of independent private property owners or neighborhoods of owners but with a single central (and centralizing) state-government as the ultimate sovereign of all domestic residents and their properties (macro-migration). If a domestic resident-owner invites a person and arranges for his access onto the resident-owner’s property but the government excludes this person from the state territory, it is a case of forced exclusion (a phenomenon that does not exist in a natural order). On the other hand, if the government admits a person while there is no domestic resident-owner who has invited this person onto his property, it is a case of forced integration (also non-existent in a natural order, where all movement is invited).

Hoppe's views on immigration are controversial within the wider libertarian movement. Walter Block offered arguments against Hoppe's immigration position in a 1999 article, "A Libertarian Case for Free Immigration."

Academic freedom controversy

On 4 March 2004, during a lecture in a course on money and banking, Hoppe hypothesized that homosexuals will generally display shorter time preference for capital consumption because they tend not to have biological heirs and thus have a lesser incentive to engage in long-term saving. One of Hoppe's students characterized this statement as derogatory and a matter of opinion rather than fact.

The university's provost, Raymond W. Alden III, issued Hoppe with a non-disciplinary letter of instruction on February 9, 2005, finding that he had:

...created a hostile or intimidating educational environment in violation of the University's policies regarding discrimination as to sexual orientation.

The university also instructed Hoppe to "...cease mischaracterizing opinion as objective fact". Hoppe was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and responded by suggesting that the university had, "blatantly violated its contractual obligations" toward him and described the action as, "frivolous interference with my right to academic freedom". 9 days later, on February 18, 2005, Carol Harter, president of UNLV, issued a further letter stating:

UNLV, in accordance with policy adopted by the Board of Regents, understands that the freedom afforded to Professor Hoppe and to all members of the academic community carries a significant corresponding academic responsibility. In the balance between freedoms and responsibilities, and where there may be ambiguity between the two, academic freedom must, in the end, be foremost.

Harter dismissed the discrimination charge and the non-disciplinary letter was withdrawn from Hoppe's personnel file.

Works

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Festschrift

Further information: Festschrift

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References

  1. Hoppe, Hans-Hermann (1996). "Socialism: A Property or Knowledge Problem?" (PDF) (1): 143–49. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. Hans-Hermann Hoppe and the German Extremist Nationalist Right by Tom Palmer (1 July 2005)
  3. Block, Walter (1996). "Review of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Economics and Ethics of Private Property". Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines. 7 (1). doi:10.2202/1145-6396.1205. These two are truly 'hard acts to follow'. But with the publication of The Economics and Ethics Private Property, Hoppe bids fair to one day claiming the mantle of worthy successor to these two pathbreaking thinkers. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  4. The Hoppe Effect by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr (The Lew Rockwell Blog, 1 September 2009)
  5. Woods, Tomas E. "Democracy vs. Civilization". www.lewrockwell.com. Hoppe, a professor of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is one of the most interesting and compelling living scholars whose work I have studied. I have profited immensely from his writing.
  6. ^ Wile, Anthony (March 27, 2011). "Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the Impracticality of One-World Government and the Failure of Western-style Democracy". The Daily Bell.
  7. "UNLV Catalog" (PDF). Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  8. Translations - (hanshoppe.com)
  9. Jeff Tucker interviews Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1 October 2011)
  10. Hans-Hermann Hoppe Biography (mises.og)
  11. "Juan Ramón Rallo interviews Mises Institute scholar Hans-Hermann Hoppe at the Instituto Juan de Mariana's".
  12. Hoppe (The Lew Rockwell Blog)
  13. The Property & Freedom Society
  14. ^ Symposium: Breakthrough or Buncombe? with comments from Murray Rothbard, David D. Friedman, Leland B. Yeager, David Gordon and Douglas B. Rasmussen and from Hans-Hermann Hoppe.(Liberty, November 1988)
  15. Democracy: The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Transaction Publishers, 2001)
  16. Libertarianism and Libertinism by Walter Block (Journal of Libertarian Studies, Fall 1994) p. 177-128
  17. Libertarianism is unique; it belongs neither to the right nor the left: a critique of the views of Long, Holcombe, and Baden on the left, Hoppe, Feser and Paul on the right by Walter Block (Loyola University) p. 22-23
  18. Hoppe on Covenant Communities and Advocates of Alternative Lifestyles by Stephan Kinsella (The Lew Rockwell Blog, 27 May 2010)
  19. Hoppe, Hans Hermann (2002). "Natural Order, The State, and The Immigration Problem". Journal of Libertarian Studies. 16 (1). {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  20. Block, Walter. "A Libertarian Case for Free Immigration." Journal of Libertarian Studies. Vol. 13, No. 2. 1999.
  21. Professor, ACLU may sue UNLV by Justin Chomintra (The Rebel Yell, 10 February 2005)
  22. Findings and non-disciplinary letter of instruction from Raymond W. Alden III (UNLV, 9 February 2005)
  23. (.pdf) Hans-Herman Hoppes' Website
  24. Snyder, Martin D. (March 1, 2005). "Birds of a Feather?". Academe. American Association of University Professors. Retrieved April 17, 2013, from HighBeam Research. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

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