Hans Hoppe

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Born	(1949-09-02) September 2, 1949 (age 67) 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 remarks on the rights of property owners to establish private covenant communities to which undesirable people may be denied entrance 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.