A state is a territorial monopolist of compulsion, an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the exploitation of private property owners through expropriation, taxation, and regulation. But how do states come into existence? There are two theories on the origin of states. One view is associated with
Stephan Kinsella lp-3-1 Mac OS X 10.6.6 Quartz PDFContext Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. “Of Private, Common, and Public Property and the Rationale for Total Privatization . ” Libertarian Papers 3, no. 1 (2011):
I. In the most fundamental sense we are all, with each of our actions, always and invariably profit-seeking entrepreneurs. Whenever we act, we employ some physical means (things valued as goods) — at a minimum our body and its standing room, but in most cases also various other, “external” things — so as to divert the “natural” course of events
Old habits die hard. These should be the best of times for oil-rich Russia, with prices remaining above $50 per barrel. Instead, foreign investors are fleeing , and with them skills, technology, and capital. Amazing how that happens when the state seizes private property and puts businessmen in jail for supposed tax-evasion. Net capital outflow
Here is my preface to the newly published Polish edition of Democracy--The God that Failed . In human history, for better or worse decisive turns in the course of events occur. The most recent of such turns was in 1989 with the implosion of communism all across central and eastern Europe. This had been predicted seventy years before by the
The Free Market 32, no. 8 (August 2014) This article is a selection from “The Ethics of Entrepreneurship and Profit,” a lecture delivered by Prof. Hoppe at the University of Reading, England in June 2014. The capitalist entrepreneur acts with a specific goal in mind: to attain a monetary profit. He saves or borrows saved money, he hires labor,
Volume 12, No. 1 (2009) Hoppe’s response to Block’s foregoing criticism of his previously published notes on the subject of preference and indifference in economic analysis, including a summary of agreements and reconstruction of differences. Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. “Further Notes on Preference and Indifference: Rejoinder to Block.” The Quarterly
Volume 18, Number 1 An Interview With Hans-Hermann Hoppe Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, is professor of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he taught with Murray N. Rothbard from 1985 to 1995. He is the author of Handln und Erkennen (1976), Kritik deer Kausalwissenschaftlichen
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