From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy

Hans-Hermann Hoppe was born on September 2, 1949, in Peine, West Germany. He attended the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/M, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for studies in Philosophy, Sociology, History, and Economics. He earned his Ph.D. (Philosophy, 1974) and his “Habilitation” (Sociology and Economics, 1981), both from the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main.

He taught at several German universities as well as at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center for Advanced International Studies, Bologna, Italy. In 1985, he moved from Germany to the United States, to study under Murray Rothbard. He remained a close associate of Rothbard until his death in January, 1995.

An Austrian school economist and libertarian/anarcho-capitalist philosopher, he is currently Professor Emeritus of Economics at UNLV, Distinguished Fellow with the Mises Institute, former editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies (2005–2009), and founder and president of The Property and Freedom Society (2006–present).

Professor Hoppe has written extensively, some of his publications include: Democracy: The God That Failed; The Myth of National Defense; The Economics and Ethics of Private Property; A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism; Handeln und Erkennen; The Great Fiction; Kritik der kausalwissenschaftlichen Sozialforschung; Eigentum, Anarchie und Staat; Wettbewerb der Gauner; and numerous articles on philosophy, economics and the social sciences. His writings have been translated into thirty languages.

He is married to economist Dr. A. Gulcin Imre Hoppe and resides with his wife in Istanbul.