About

by Hans Hoppe on June 8, 2009

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 1986, 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 of Economics at UNLV, Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Founder and President of The Property and Freedom Society (2006-present), and Editor-at -Broad of the Journal of Libertarian Studies (2005-2009). He has received multiple awards, including, most recently, the Caminos de la Libertad “A Life for Freedom” Award. In 2006, he was presented with the Gary G. Schlarbaum Award for lifetime defense of liberty, and in 2015, the Murray N. Rothbard Medal of Freedom (video). A lifetime member of the Royal Horticultural Society, he is married to economist Dr. A. Gulcin Imre Hoppe and resides with his wife in Istanbul.

In addition to his recent English-language books (translations), Professor Hoppe is the author of Handeln und Erkennen (Bern 1976); Kritik der kausalwissenschaftlichen Sozialforschung (Opladen 1983); Eigentum, Anarchie und Staat (Oladen 1987) and numerous articles on philosophy, economics and the social sciences.