Hans Hoppe e a insustentável defesa do Estado (LVM Editora, 2019) (“Hans Hoppe and the unsustainable defense of the State”) has just been published in Portuguese. This work is part of a collection aimed at popularizing the thought of various great thinkers organized by Prof. Dennys Xavier. The volume on Professor Hoppe’s thought is the fourth in the series; the others in the series so far include volumes on Hayek, Ayn Rand, and Thomas Sowell.
What Must Be Done (2009, based on a lecture delivered in 1997) has been translated into Portuguese as part of a pocket-book collection as O que deve ser feito (LVM Editora, 2019; translation by Paulo Pozonoff, preface by Rodrigo Saraiva Marinho).
A previous translation by Fernando Fiori Chiocca was previously published in 2013, and is available here.
Speech delivered in German on 23 November 2019 at the Palais Coburg in Vienna, Austria, at an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the publication of Mises’s Human Action. English translation by Robert Grözinger
My Path to the Austrian School of Economics
[This talk was delivered 23 November at the Palais Coburg in Vienna, Austria, at an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the publication of Mises’s Human Action.]
Nowadays, it’s not uncommon for people as young as 20 or 30 to feel they have to share their memories with the world. Even at an advanced age, I prefer not to talk publicly about personal things and experiences in my life, but to reserve this for private conversations.
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Preface to Against the Left: A Rothbardian Libertarianism, by Llewellyn H Rockwell Jr. (Rockwell Communications LLC, 2019).
PREFACE
by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Every person, including identical twins, is unique, different from and unequal to all other persons. Everyone is born at a different time and/or place. Everyone has two different, older and unequal biological parents, a male father and a female mother. Every person, throughout its entire life, faces and must act in a different and unequal environment with different and unequal opportunities and challenges, and every person’s life, its accomplishments and its failings, its joys and satisfactions as much as its disappointments, sorrows and sufferings, then, is different from and unequal to that of everyone else. Moreover, this natural inequality of any and all human beings is still greatly amplified with the establishment of any and every society based on the division of labor. [continue reading…]
This is an interview of Dr. Hoppe by Mikhail Svetov, the organizer of his recent trip to Moscow [“Historical Patterns and Tendencies from an Austro-Libertarian Perspective”: Hoppe in Moscow].
From the Youtube notes: “Conversation with dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe about corrupting money in politics, perils of democracy, split between Cato Institute and Rothbard, freedom of association and getting libertarianism right.”
An Arabic translation of Professor Hoppe’s Democracy: The God That Failed is now available, just published by a publishing house in Kuwait, Takween Publishing, at their press in Lebanon, with an introduction by Nader Kadhum, a professor at Bahrain.
Professor Hoppe’s works are now available in 28 languages in addition to English.
For more on Takween, see Kuwaiti translating English classics into Arabic sees ‘booming’ business.
Talk in Hangar-7 – Brexit instead of Brussels: Is the Future of the Nation Belonging?
On October 31, the Brexit is to be completed. Now there is a deal between the EU and the UK. What consequences would Brexit have for Austria? And how justified is the yearning for the nation state?
For the past three years, negotiations have been on Britain’s exit from the EU. Now there is another deal, but does the British Parliament agree? Or it threatens but the hard Brexit, both sides do not want and should not be possible according to British law. What could an agreement look like? Will Brexit continue to strengthen nationalist forces across Europe? And why is the EU increasingly losing its appeal?
It is not just since the British exit referendum in June 2016 that many European citizens are yearning for a strong and sovereign nation state. What is behind this wish? Why is the EU evidently moving away from its citizens? What makes Europe today and does the EU really bring us more advantages than disadvantages?
Guests:
Karoline Edtstadler, ÖVP delegation leader in Brussels
Leigh Turner, British ambassador to Austria
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, economist and anarcho-capitalist
Aleksandra Rybinska, Polish publicist
Stefan Junker, psychologist and author
Moderation: Michael Fleischhacker
[Update: Link below is bad; alternative link here: https://bittubers.com/post/6043bbbb-0901-401d-9c90-ffeb2bf90a8c]
Talk im Hangar-7 – Brexit statt Brüssel: Gehört die Zukunft der Nation?
On the 6th of October 2019 some 1500 Russians came to listen to Libertarian thinker Hans-Hermann Hoppe in Moscow. It was the biggest libertarian event in the history of Russia and the biggest libertarian lecture in Europe. Foreword and afterword by Mikhail Svetov.
The event was “Hans Hermann Hoppe: So To Speak”, and the title of Professor Hoppe’s speech was: “Historical Patterns and Tendencies in Austro-Libertarian Perspective” — in which he tells three related stories or narratives that explain the present world.
First: regarding the origin of states and the changes of state constitutions over time: a historical reconstruction.
Second: regarding the concentration of states, issues of war and imperialism.
Third: regarding money and banking and monetary centralization.
[Update: see also: Getting Libertarianism Right: Interview in Russia]
From PFS 2019:
Hülsmann, Kinsella, Dürr, Hoppe, Q&A (PFS 2019)
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From the recently-concluded Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the PFS, Bodrum, Turkey (Sept. 12–17, 2019).
For others, see the links in the Program, or the PFS YouTube channel, including the growing PFS 2019 YouTube Playlist.
Additional information about the 2020 Annual Meeting (scheduled for Sept. 10–15, 2020) will be released presently.
From PFS 2019:
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Failure of ‘Ontological Naturalism’ (PFS 2019)
From the recently-concluded Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the PFS, Bodrum, Turkey (Sept. 12–17, 2019).
For others, see the links in the Program, or the PFS YouTube channel, including the growing PFS 2019 YouTube Playlist. Additional media of the proceedings will be released presently.
Additional information about the 2020 Annual Meeting (scheduled for Sept. 10–15, 2020) will be released presently.
A Chinese (Mandarin) translation of Professor Hoppe’s The Ethics and Economics of Private Property has officially passed Chinese censorship review and will be published soon in mainland China.
Uma Breve História do Homem: Progresso e Declínio, a Brazilian Português translation of A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline (Mises 2015), is now available on Amazon Brazil.
According to Matheus Vieira, who alerted me to this, the first run (about 5 thousand copies) sold out already in about 9 months and is already on the second run—very impressive given the subject matter and type of book. Vieira also informs me that the publisher is working on a translation of The Economics and Ethics of Private Property.
A slew of Hungarian translations of Professor Hoppe’s works has just come to our attention, and are all listed here:
As noted here, at the 2019 Austrian Economics Research Conference in Auburn at the Mises Institute, Professor Hoppe was honored a panel presentation “The Significance of Hans-Hermann Hoppe,” on the occasion of Professor Hoppe’s 70th birth year.
Lew Rockwell’s recent review of Professor Hoppe’s Getting Libertarianism Right is here and repixeled below:
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Part I of The Libertarian Quest for a Grand Historical Narrative, Mises Wire (Nov. 5 2018), has been translated into Portuguese, as A busca libertária por uma narrativa histórica global (March 13, 2019).
Hoppe on Austrian TV (SERVUS TV) on Brexit and the EU. (SERVUS TV is a private TV-station, and part of the Quo Vadis Veritas Foundation established by Dietrich Mateschitz, co-founder and majority owner of Red Bull) Published on Jan 23, 2019.
The other discussants:
- Irmgard Griss, member of the Austrian parliament for the NEOS (LEFT-liberals), and former head of the Austrian Supreme Court
- Leigh Turner, British Ambassador to Austria
- Marcus Pretzell, member of the European Parliament (elected on the list of the AfD – Alternative für Deutschland – who left the party immediately after his election to join a new, somewhat more PC splinter group, the Blues)
- Thomas Brezina, Austrian living in London, internationally bestselling author of children’s books
Update: English subtitles for selected excerpts are available below (from HANS-HERMANN HOPPE ON BREXIT):
