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
The Free Market 11, no. 4 (April 1993) It’s true that the U.S. health care system is a mess, but this demonstrates not market but government failure. To cure the problem requires not different or more government regulations and bureaucracies, as self-serving politicians want us to believe, but the elimination of all existing government controls.
The Free Market 13, no. ( 1995) The intellectual achievements of Murray Newton Rothbard (1926-1995)—eminent scholar and friend—are monumental. He is the author of 25 books and thousands of article in scholarly and popular journals. His work covers the entire spectrum of the social sciences: pure economic theory, history, sociology, philosophy,
The Free Market 6, no. 2 (February 1988) Compared with life in Western countries, where the socialist sector is sizable, life under total socialism is miserable. The standard of living is so deplorable that, in 1961, the socialist East German government built a system of walls, barbed wire, electrified fences, minefields, automatic shooting
[ From A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism , first published in 1989, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall . ] The case of West and East Germany is particularly instructive. Here, history provides us with an example that comes as close to that of a controlled social experiment as one could probably hope to get. A quite homogeneous
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