I was born shortly after the end of World War II, in 1949, in the British occupied zone of West Germany. My parents were both refugees, endangered at or forcibly expelled from their original homes in Soviet-occupied East Germany. As countless others of my generation, then, I was raised by a generation of parents and teachers who had just
No one will read For a New Liberty and not see the world with very different eyes afterward. Original Article: “ Hans-Hermann Hoppe on For a New Liberty at 50” This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher
[ See this lecture as a video. ] States, regardless of their constitution, are not economic enterprises. In contrast to the latter, states do not finance themselves by selling products and services to customers who voluntarily pay, but by compulsory levies: taxes collected through the threat and use of violence (and through the paper money they
My speech last year here in Bodrum on Germany’s role in the ongoing war between Russia and the Ukraine, or better and more accurately: between Russia on the one hand and the US, as the boss of NATO, its various European vassals and in particular Germany, and the Ukraine and the Ukrainians as their proxy: as their dispensable tools, useful idiots
[This article is the foreword to Stephan Kinsella’s, Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press , 2023)] The question as to what is justice and what constitutes a just society is as old as philosophy itself. Indeed, it arises in everyday life even long before any systematic philosophizing is to begin. All throughout
“I am speaking to you tonight from my emotional home in Austria to you guys in my intellectual home in Auburn.” Includes an introduction by Joe Salerno. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July
Nací poco después del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en 1949, en la zona de Alemania Occidental ocupada por los británicos. Mis padres eran ambos refugiados, en peligro o expulsados a la fuerza de sus hogares originales en la Alemania Oriental ocupada por los soviéticos. Como otros muchos de mi generación, pues, fui criado por una generación
[ Mira esta conferencia en vídeo. ] Los Estados, independientemente de su constitución, no son empresas económicas. A diferencia de éstas, los Estados no se financian vendiendo productos y servicios a clientes que pagan voluntariamente, sino mediante exacciones obligatorias: impuestos recaudados mediante la amenaza y el uso de la violencia (y
Mi discurso del año pasado aquí en Bodrum sobre el papel de Alemania en la guerra en curso entre Rusia y Ucrania, o mejor y más exactamente: entre Rusia, por un lado, y los EEUU, como jefe de la OTAN, sus diversos vasallos europeos y, en particular, Alemania, y Ucrania y los ucranianos como su apoderado: como sus herramientas prescindibles,
[Este artículo es el prólogo de la obra de Stephan Kinsella, Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press , 2023)] La cuestión de qué es la justicia y qué constituye una sociedad justa es tan antigua como la propia filosofía. De hecho, surge en la vida cotidiana incluso mucho antes de que comience cualquier filosofar
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