Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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| Born |
September 2, 1949 Peine, West Germany |
| Nationality | German American |
| Institution | Business school of University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| Field | Political philosophy, economics, epistemology |
| School or tradition |
Austrian School |
| Alma mater | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| Influences | Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises |
| Contributions | Argumentation ethics, Property and Freedom Society |
| Awards | The Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize (2006) Franz Cuhel Memorial Prize (Prague Conference on Political Economy 2009) |
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (German: [ˈhɔpə]; born September 2, 1949) is a German-born American Austrian School economist, and libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Senior Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and the founder and president of the Property and Freedom Society.
Hoppe identifies as a culturally conservative libertarian. His call for libertarians to establish private covenant communities, from which he argues homosexuals and political dissidents should be "physically removed" (in accordance with property rights), has provoked controversy among both the libertarian community and Hoppe's colleagues at UNLV Business School. Hoppe also garners controversy due to his support for federal enforcement of immigration laws, which critics argue is at odds with libertarianism and anarchism.
Hoppe was born in Peine, West Germany, did undergraduate studies at Universität des Saarlandes and received his MA and PhD degrees from Goethe University Frankfurt. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, from 1976 to 1978 and earned his habilitation in Foundations of Sociology and Economics from the University of Frankfurt in 1981. From 1986 until his retirement in 2008, Hoppe was a Professor in the School of Business at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, the publisher of much of his work, and was editor of various Mises Institute periodicals.
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