A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline

03/05/2015 Hans-Hermann Hoppe

A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline is nothing less than a concise revisionist history of man, skillfully presented by Dr. Hoppe. He addresses the rise of family structures, the development of private property, social evolution prior to the Industrial Revolution, and the rise of the state — all without regard for cherished myths. Dr. Hoppe will make you rethink your assumptions regarding man’s development in this engaging book.

A Short History of Man by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Meet the Author

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans-Hermann Hoppe is an Austrian school economist and libertarian/anarcho-capitalist philosopher. He is the founder and president of The Property and Freedom Society.

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References

“On the Origin of Private Property and the Family” and “From the Malthusian Trap” first appeared in Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Great Fiction: Property, Economy, Society, and the Politics of Decline (2012); reprinted with permission of Laissez Books (Baltimore, Maryland).

From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy was published as a booklet by the Mises Institute (2014).

Published 2015 by the Mises Institute and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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