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Template:Short description Template:Pp Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox economist Template:Libertarianism US Template:Conservatism US Template:Anarcho-capitalism sidebar Template:Austrian School sidebar Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Template:IPAc-en;<ref>"Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Why Democracy Fails" Template:Webarchive</ref> Template:IPA; born 2 September 1949) is a German-American academic associated with Austrian School economics, anarcho-capitalism, right-wing libertarianism, and opposition to democracy.<ref name=":2">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=":4">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name=":7">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=":10">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=":9" /> From 1986 until 2008 he was professor of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). He is a senior fellow of the Mises Institute think tank. In 2006 he emigrated to Turkey and founded the Property and Freedom Society.<ref name="Hans-Hermann Hoppe">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="UNLV cat">Template:Cite web</ref> Some of the speakers at the organization's conferences in Turkey have been white nationalists.<ref name=":23">Mower, Lawrence (May 11, 2007). "Researchers tied to hate groups get invitations." Las Vegas Review-Journal</ref><ref name=":8" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":1" />

Hoppe has written extensively in opposition to democracy, notably in his 2001 book Democracy: The God That Failed.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="gordondemocracy" /><ref name=":9" /> The book favors exclusionary "covenant communities" that are "founded for the purpose of protecting family and kin".<ref name=":11">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name=":5" /> A section of the book favoring exclusion of democrats and homosexuals from society helped popularize Hoppe on the far-right.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":13" /><ref name="Snyder" />

Hoppe was a protégé of Murray Rothbard, who established him at UNLV, where Hoppe taught from 1986 to 2008.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":2" /> In 2004, a student's complaint about Hoppe's lecture comments regarding homosexuals and time preference led to an investigation and non-disciplinary letter to Hoppe by UNLV,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> which was subsequently withdrawn after a controversy over academic freedom.<ref name="Snyder" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Early life and education

Murray Rothbard, whom Hoppe called his mentor and master

Hoppe was born in 1949 in Peine, West Germany.<ref name=":12" /> His parents had settled there in 1946 after fleeing from East Elbia, which after WW2 came under Soviet occupation. He has stated the expropriation of his mother’s family who were East Elbean Junkers has been a lasting trauma, and that he was raised with a Protestant ethic.<ref name="Deist" />

Hoppe completed his undergraduate studies at Saarland University<ref name=":12">Jeff Tucker interviews Hans-Hermann Hoppe Template:Webarchive (1 October 2011)</ref> and received his MA and PhD degrees in Philosophy from Goethe University Frankfurt.<ref name="UNLV cat" /> He studied under Jürgen Habermas, a leading German intellectual of the post-WWII era, but came to reject Habermas's ideas and European leftism generally.<ref>Lew Rockwell, introduction to Hoppe's A Short History of Man (2015), Auburn, Mississippi: Mises Institute, p. 9</ref>

He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, from 1976 to 1978 and earned his habilitation in Foundations of Sociology and Economics from the University of Frankfurt in 1981.

Career

From 1981-1985 he taught in West Germany and Italy.<ref name=":2" /> In 1986 Hoppe came to the United States through Murray Rothbard on a scholarship from the Center for Libertarian Studies, and Rothbard also established Hoppe at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.<ref name=":6">Template:Cite book</ref> From 1986<ref name=":1" /> until his retirement in 2008,<ref name=":2" /> Hoppe was a professor in the School of Business at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Mises Institute, a libertarian think tank that is publisher of much of his work, and was editor of various Mises Institute periodicals.<ref>Hans Herman Hoppe, The Economics and Ethics of Private Property Template:Webarchive, 2nd Ed., Mises Institute, p. xii, Template:ISBN.</ref>

Hoppe has said that Rothbard was his "principal teacher, mentor and master".<ref name="Bell1">Template:Cite web</ref> Hoppe said he was "working and living side-by-side with him, in constant and immediate personal contact," and said that from 1985 until Rothbard's 1995 death, he considered Rothbard his "dearest fatherly friend".<ref>Hoppe, Hans-Hermann (1995). L. Rockwell (Ed.), from Murray Rothbard, In Memoriam Template:Webarchive. Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute. pp. 33–37</ref>

Mises Institute and John Randolph Club

The Mises Institute was founded in 1982 by Lew Rockwell, Burton Blumert, and Murray Rothbard,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> following a split between the Cato Institute and Rothbard, who had been one of the founders of the Cato Institute.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>Template:Primary source inline After Rothbard's death in 1996, Hoppe was a leading anarcho-capitalist figure at the Mises Institute.<ref name=":4" />

Hoppe was active in the John Randolph Club, a far-right alliance of paleolibertarians and paleoconservatives that was organized by Rothbard and associated with the Rockford Institute.<ref name=":1" /> The club was known for promoting secessionist and neo-Confederate views in the 1990s.<ref name=":1" />

Property and Freedom Society

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In 2006, Hoppe founded The Property and Freedom Society (PFS), with annual conferences in Bodrum, Turkey. It and the Mises Institute represent a paleolibertarian challenge to the Mont Pelerin Society and Atlas Network of think tanks.<ref name=":7" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=":9" /> Figures of the European New Right and the American alt-right have attended PFS conferences.<ref name=":9">Template:Cite book</ref> Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe describe Hoppe as a "racialist right-wing libertarian", and Slobodian writes that the conferences have included members of the former John Randolph Club along with "new advocates of stateless libertarianism and racial secession".<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":1" />

In 2011, on the fifth anniversary of PFS, Hoppe reflected on its goals: "On the one hand, positively, it was to explain and elucidate the legal, economic, cognitive and cultural requirements and features of a free, state-less natural order. On the other hand, negatively, it was to unmask the State and showcase it for what it really is: an institution run by gangs of murderers, plunderers and thieves, surrounded by willing executioners, propagandists, sycophants, crooks, liars, clowns, charlatans, dupes and useful idiots – an institution that dirties and taints everything it touches."<ref name="4H PFS">Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2016, Hoppe was criticized for inviting white nationalist speakers such as Jared Taylor and neo-Nazi Richard B. Spencer to speak at the PFS, where also venture capitalist Peter Thiel spoke.<ref name=":23"/><ref name="Ganz" /><ref name=":3">Template:Cite web</ref> Describing the PFS, the Southern Poverty Law Center said in 2016 that "in Hoppe one can see the connection between the ultra-Libertarians and white nationalists".<ref name=":3" /> Intelligencer in 2017 described the annual PFS meeting as "Davos, but for racists".<ref name=":8">Template:Cite web</ref> Slobodian wrote in 2023 that "prophets of racial and social breakdown share the stage with investment advisors and financial consultants" at the conferences.<ref name=":1" />

Views

On democracy

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Hoppe's book Democracy: The God That Failed, published in 2001, argues that democracy is a cause of civilizational decline.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Passages in the book oppose universal suffrage and favor "natural elites".<ref name=":1" /> In the book, Hoppe blames democratic forms of government for various social and economic problems, and attributes democracy's failures to pressure groups which seek to increase government expenditures and regulations. Hoppe proposes alternatives and remedies, including secession, decentralization of government, and "complete freedom of contract, occupation, trade and migration".<ref>R.M. Pearce, Book Review: Democracy: the God That Failed Template:Webarchive, The National Observer (Australia), No. 56, Autumn 2003.</ref> Hoppe argues that monarchy would preserve individual liberty more effectively than democracy.<ref name="gordondemocracy">David Gordon, Review of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God that Failed Template:Webarchive, "The Mises Review" of Ludwig von Mises Institute, Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2002; Volume 8, Number 1.</ref> The book helped popularize Hoppe in the far-right, particularly a section of the book that called for the exclusion of political rivals.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":13">Template:Cite web</ref>

Janek Wasserman writes that Hoppe "reimagined the Austrian legacy as one of authoritarianism, conservatism, antidemocracy, and anti-Enlightenment".<ref name=":9" /> Steven Horwitz called the approaches of Hoppe and his Mises Institute colleague Joseph Salerno "a fascist fist in a libertarian glove".<ref name=":9" /> The political scientist George Hawley writes that Hoppe "may be the most important bridge between libertarianism and the Alt-Right".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Hawley notes that Hoppe has argued that "libertarians must actually be radical conservatives", and that libertarians must favor a right to discrimination, including on the basis of race.<ref name=":10" />

In Hoppe's view, Wasserman writes, "the successes of the fin-de-siecle age—and the Austrian school—were not the product of liberal predominance or cosmopolitan virtues but of the ancien régime and its restrictive social order".<ref name=":9" /> Regarding democracy and the arts, Hoppe argued in 2013 that "democracy leads to the subversion and ultimately disappearance of the notion of beauty and universal standards of beauty. Beauty is swamped and submerged by so-called 'modern art'."<ref>Fonseca, Joel (1 August 2013). "The Brazilian Philosophy Magazine Dicta & Contradicta Interviews Hans-Hermann Hoppe" Template:Webarchive. Mises Institute Brazil</ref>

Reviewing Democracy: The God That Failed, Walter Block, a colleague of Hoppe's at the Mises Institute, wrote that Hoppe's arguments shed light "on historical occurrences, from wars to poverty to inflation to interest rates to crime". While Hoppe concedes that 21st-century democracies are more prosperous than the monarchies of old, Hoppe argues that if nobles and kings replaced today's political leaders, their ability to take a long-term view of a country's well-being would "improve matters", Block wrote. Block shared what he called minor criticisms of Hoppe's theses regarding time preferences, immigration and the gap between libertarianism and conservatism.<ref>Walter Block, Review of Democracy: The God that Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 61, No. 3, July 2002.</ref>

Alberto Benegas-Lynch Jr., a professor of economics at the University of Buenos Aires who is associated with the libertarian Cato Institute,<ref>"Alberto Benegas Lynch." Template:Webarchive Cato.org</ref> criticized Hoppe's thesis that monarchy is preferable to democracy.<ref name="Reply2ABL">Hoppe, Hans-Hermann (1997). "On Theory and History. Reply to Benegas-Lynch Jr." Template:Webarchive. Published in Gerard Radnitzky, ed., Values and the Social Order, Vol. 3 (Aldershot: Avebury, 1997).</ref> Benegas-Lynch provided evidence that modern monarchies tend to be far poorer than modern democracies. In response, Hoppe argued that comparing mostly African monarchies with mostly European democracies led to a distortion.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>Template:Third-party inline

Asked by The Intercept in 2021 about his incorporation into far-right internet memes celebrating political murder, Hoppe responded that the question was ignorant, writing, "I have been an intellectual champion of private property right, free markets, freedom of contract and association, and peace", and, "What do I know? There are lots of crazy people out there!"<ref name=":13" />

Covenant communities and discrimination

In Democracy: The God That Failed, Hoppe argues in favor of property owners' right to establish communities with exclusive criteria for admission and acceptance.<ref name="pp. 216–2182" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Hoppe describes a society of "covenant communities" made up of residents who have signed an agreement defining the nature of that community. Hoppe believes that these covenant communities should have the right to certain forms of discrimination, including the physical separation of people whose lifestyle is deemed incompatible with the norms of that community.Template:Cn He writes that "There would be little or no 'tolerance' and 'openmindedness' so dear to left-libertarians. Instead, one would be on the right path toward restoring the freedom of association and exclusion implied in the institution of private property".<ref name="Hoppe211">Hoppe, Hans-Hermann (2001). Democracy: The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order, Transaction Publishers, p. 211. Template:ISBN</ref><ref name=":5">Block, Walter (2007). "Plumb-Line Libertarianism: A Critique of Hoppe" Template:Webarchive. Reason Papers.</ref>

Hoppe writes: "In a covenant concluded among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private property, no such thing as a right to free (unlimited) speech exists, ... naturally no one is permitted to advocate ideas contrary to the very purpose of the covenant of preserving and protecting private property, such as democracy and communism. There can be no tolerance toward democrats and communists in a libertarian social order. They will have to be physically separated and expelled from society. Likewise, in a covenant founded for the purpose of protecting family and kin, there can be no tolerance toward those habitually promoting lifestyles incompatible with this goal. They – the advocates of alternative, non-family and kin-centered lifestyles such as, for instance, individual hedonism, parasitism, nature-environment worship, homosexuality, or communism – will have to be physically removed from society, too, if one is to maintain a libertarian order."<ref name="pp. 216–2182">Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed, pp. 216–218</ref><ref name="Snyder" />

Commenting on this passage, Martin Snyder of the American Association of University Professors said Hoppe's words will disturb "[t]hose with a better memory than Hoppe for segregation, apartheid, internment facilities and concentration camps, for yellow stars and pink triangles".<ref name="Snyder" /> Walter Block describes Hoppe as calling for homosexuals and others to be banned from polite society, and says of Hoppe's statement: "it is stark, it is well written, it is radical...it is still exceedingly difficult to reconcile with libertarianism."<ref>Walter Block (Loyola University New Orleans), "Libertarianism is unique; it belongs neither to the right nor the left: a critique of the views of Long, Holcombe, and Baden on the left, Hoppe, Feser and Paul on the right" Template:Webarchive, undated, published at Ludwig von Mises Institute website, pp. 22–23.</ref>

Critics such as Phillip Magness have argued that Hoppe's cultural conservative views were not derived from Mises's Austrian economics, but rather from outside philosophical traditions such as other right-wing political thought and the Frankfurt School.<ref> "Magness, P.W. (2019). Racial Determinism and Immigration in the Works of Ludwig von Mises: A Critique of Slobodian's Alt-Right Thesis. Social & Political Philosophy eJournal. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3490778</ref>

Support for immigration restrictions

Template:Capitalism sidebar Although a self-described anarcho-capitalist who favors abolishing the nation-state, Hoppe also garners controversy due to his support for governmental enforcement of immigration laws, which critics argue is at odds with libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Ganz">Template:Cite news</ref> Hoppe argues that as long as states exist, they should impose some restrictions on immigration. He has equated free immigration to "forced integration" which violates the rights of native peoples, since if land were privately owned, immigration would not be unhindered but would only occur with the consent of private property owners.<ref name="migrations">Hans Hoppe, On Free Immigration and Forced Integration Template:Webarchive, LewRockwell.com, 1999.</ref>

Hoppe's Mises Institute colleague Walter Block has characterized Hoppe as an "anti-open immigration activist" who argues that, though all public property is "stolen" by the state from taxpayers, "the state compounds the injustice when it allows immigrants to use [public] property, thus further "invading" the private property rights of the original owners".<ref name="mises2">Anthony Gregory and Walter Block On Immigration: Reply to Hoppe Template:Webarchive, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 21, No. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 25–42.</ref> However, Block rejects Hoppe's views as incompatible with libertarianism.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> He argues that Hoppe's logic implies that flagrantly unlibertarian laws such as regulations on prostitution and drug use "could be defended on the basis that many tax-paying property owners would not want such behavior on their own private property".<ref name="BlockLaborEcon">Template:Cite book</ref> Another libertarian author, Simon Guenzl, writing for Libertarian Papers, argues that: "supporting a legitimate role for the state as an immigration gatekeeper is inconsistent with Rothbardian and Hoppean libertarian anarchism, as well as with the associated strategy of advocating always and in every instance reductions in the state's role in society."<ref name=":0">Template:Cite journal</ref>

In terms of specific immigration restrictions, Hoppe argued that an appropriate policy will require immigrants to the United States to display proficiency in English in addition to "superior (above-average) intellectual performance and character structure as well as a compatible system of values".<ref>Walter Block and Gene Callahan, Is There a Right to Immigration?: A Libertarian Perspective Template:Webarchive, Human Rights Review, October–December 2003.</ref> He suggested that these criteria would lead to a "systematic pro-European immigration bias". Jacob Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation argued that the immigration test Hoppe advocated would probably be prejudiced against Latin American immigrants to the United States.<ref>Jacob Hornberger, Let's Stick with Traditional American Values! Template:Webarchive, The Future of Freedom Foundation, 1 February 2000.</ref>Template:Third-party inline

Remarks about homosexuals and academic investigation

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Hoppe at an event in New York City in 2017.

Hoppe's statements and ideas concerning race and homosexuality have repeatedly provoked controversy among his libertarian peers and his colleagues at UNLV. Following a 4 March 2004, lecture on time preference at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), a student complained that Hoppe created a hostile classroom environment by asserting that homosexuals tend to be more shortsighted than heterosexuals in their ability to save money and plan economically, in part because they tend not to have children.<ref name="Snyder_a">Template:Cite news</ref> Hoppe also suggested that John Maynard Keynes's homosexuality might explain his economic views, with which Hoppe disagreed.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Hoppe also stated that very young and very old people, and couples without children, were less likely to plan for the future. Hoppe told a reporter that the comments lasted only 90 seconds of a 75-minute class, no students questioned the comments, and that in 18 years of giving the lecture he had not received a complaint about them. At the request of university officials, Hoppe apologized to the class. He said, "Italians tend to eat more spaghetti than Germans, and Germans tend to eat more sauerkraut than Italians" and said that he was speaking in generalities. The student alleged that Hoppe did not take the complaint seriously and filed a formal complaint. Hoppe told the reporter that he felt as if he was the victim in the incident and that the student should have been told to "grow up".<ref name="Lake">Richard Lake, Template:Cite web Las Vegas Review-Journal, 5 February 2005.</ref>

An investigation was conducted, and the university's provost, Raymond W. Alden III, issued Hoppe a non-disciplinary letter of instruction on 9 February 2005, with a finding that he had "created a hostile or intimidating educational environment in violation of the University's policies regarding discrimination as to sexual orientation". Alden also instructed Hoppe to "... cease mischaracterizing opinion as objective fact" and said that Hoppe's opinion was not supported by peer-reviewed academic literature.<ref name="alden2005">Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Third-party inline

Hoppe appealed the decision, saying the university had "blatantly violated its contractual obligations" toward him, and described the action as "frivolous interference with my right to academic freedom".<ref>Justin Chomintra, Professor, ACLU may sue UNLV Template:Webarchive, The Rebel Yell, 10 February 2005; reprinted by Stephen Kinsella at Mises.org, 10 February 2005.</ref> He was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, which threatened legal action.<ref name="LVSFeb8">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Lake" /> The Nevada ACLU executive director said, "We don't subscribe to Hans' theories and certainly understand why some students find them offensive ... But academic freedom means nothing if it doesn't protect the right of professors to present scholarly ideas that are relevant to their curricula".<ref name="Lake" /> Alden's decision was picked up by Fox News and several blogs and libertarians organized a campaign to contact the university.<ref name="LVSFeb8" /> The university received two weeks of bad publicity and the Interim Chancellor (Nevada System of Higher Education) Jim Rogers expressed concerns about "any attempts to thwart free speech".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Jim Rogers rejected Hoppe's request for a one-year paid sabbatical.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> UNLV President Carol Harter acted upon Hoppe's appeal on 18 February 2005, deciding that Hoppe's views, even if non-mainstream or controversial, should not be cause for reprimanding him. She dismissed the discrimination complaint against Hoppe, and the non-disciplinary letter was withdrawn from Hoppe's personnel file.<ref name="Snyder">Template:Cite journal</ref> She wrote, "In the balance between freedoms and responsibilities, and where there may be ambiguity between the two, academic freedom must, in the end, be foremost."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>Template:Third-party inline

Hoppe later wrote about the incident and the UNLV investigation in an article entitled "My Battle With the Thought Police".<ref name="ThoughtPolice">Hans-Hermann Hoppe, "My Battle With the Thought Police", Ludwig von Mises Institute web site, 12 April 2005.</ref> Martin Snyder of the American Association of University Professors wrote that he should not be "punished for freely expressing his opinions".<ref name="Snyder" />

Various controversies about academic freedom, including the Hoppe matter and remarks made by Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, prompted the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to hold a conference on academic freedom in October 2005.<ref>The role of academic tenure was included during the conference. Template:Cite news</ref> In 2009 UNLV proposed a new policy that included the encouragement of reporting by people who felt that they had encountered bias.<ref name="Hsu">The proposed policy defined "bias incidents" as "'verbal, written, or physical acts of intimidation, coercion, interference, frivolous claims, discrimination, and sexual or other harassment motivated, in whole or in part, by bias" based on characteristics including actual or perceived race, religion, sex (including gender identity or gender expression or a pregnancy-related condition), physical appearance and political affiliation.' Template:Cite news</ref> The proposed policy was criticized by the Nevada ACLU and some faculty members who remembered the Hoppe incident as adverse to academic freedom.<ref name="Hsu" /><ref>Policy on Bias Incidents and Hate Crimes (Final draft) Template:Webarchive, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, Department of Police Services, Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Policy on Bias Incidents and Hate Crimes.</ref>

Argumentation ethics

Hoppe in 2005

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In the September 1988 issue of Liberty,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Hoppe attempted to establish an a priori and value-neutral justification for libertarian ethics by devising a new theory which he named argumentation ethics.<ref name="libertymag">Template:Cite journal</ref> Hoppe asserted that any argument which in any respect purports to contradict libertarian principles is logically incoherent.<ref>Template:Cite journal Relevant text on Page 3: "Therefore, [Hoppe] concludes that the libertarian view of property rights is the only one that can possibly be defended by rational argument."</ref>

Hoppe argued that, in the course of having an argument about politics (or indeed any subject), people assume certain norms of argumentation, including a prohibition on initiating violence. Hoppe then extrapolated this argument to political life in general, arguing that the norms governing argumentation should apply in all political contexts. Hoppe claimed that, of all political philosophies, only anarcho-capitalist libertarianism prohibits the initiation of aggressive violence (the non-aggression principle); therefore, any argument for any political philosophy other than anarcho-capitalist libertarianism is logically incoherent.Template:Third-party inline

In the following issue, Liberty published comments by ten libertarians,<ref name="blog.mises">Template:Cite web</ref> followed by a rejoinder from Hoppe.<ref name="libertymag" /> In his comment for Liberty, Hoppe's friend and Mises Institute supervisor Murray Rothbard wrote that Hoppe's theory was "a dazzling breakthrough for political philosophy in general and for libertarianism in particular" and that Hoppe "has managed to transcend the famous is/ought, fact/value dichotomy that has plagued philosophy since the days of the Scholastics, and that had brought modern libertarianism into a tiresome deadlock".<ref name="libertymag" /> However, the majority of Hoppe's colleagues surveyed by Liberty rejected his theory.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> In his response, Hoppe derided his critics as "utilitarians".<ref name="libertymag" />Template:Third-party inline

Mises Institute Senior Fellow Roderick T. Long stated that Hoppe's a priori formulation of libertarianism denied the fundamental principle of Misesean praxeology. On the issue of utilitarianism, Long wrote, "Hoppe's argument, if it worked, would commit us to recognizing and respecting libertarian rights regardless of what our goals are – but as a praxeologist, I have trouble seeing how any practical requirement can be justified apart from a means-end structure."<ref name="Long Hoppriori">Template:Cite web</ref> Libertarian philosopher Jason Brennan rejected Hoppe's argument, saying, "Hoppe's argument illicitly conflates a liberty right with a claim right, and so fails."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>Template:Third-party inline

J. Mikael Olsson argued that Hoppe had not provided any non-circular reasons why we "have to regard moral values as something that must be regarded as being established through (consensual) argument instead of 'mere' subjective preferences for situations turning out in certain ways". In other words, the theory relies "on the existence [of] certain intuitions, the acceptance of which cannot itself be the result of 'value-free' reasoning."<ref>J. Mikael Olsson, Austrian Economics as Political Philosophy Template:Webarchive, Stockholm Studies in Politics 161, pp. 157, 161.</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>Template:Third-party inline

According to commentators, his original appropriation theory based on argumentation ethics initially tended toward the labor theory of property, but later moved toward the first possession theory of property perspective.<ref>Dominiak, Łukasz. (2023). Mixing Labor, Taking Possession, and Libertarianism: Response to Walter Block. Studia Z Historii Filozofii, 14(3), 169–195.</ref><ref> Kinsella, Stephan. 2008. Against Intellectual Property. Auburn: Mises Institute.</ref>

Influence

Hoppe was an influence on the neoreactionary monarchist blogger Curtis Yarvin, also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Javier Milei, the president of Argentina, has cited Hoppe as one of his major influences and has recommended his bibliography in the past, despite recent grievances between both about the ideologic purity of Milei's administration and the praxis for a libertarian on a democratic system.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Personal life

Hoppe resides in Turkey with his wife Gülçin Imre Hoppe, an Austrian school economist and hotelier.<ref name="Hans-Hermann Hoppe" /><ref>Salihovic, Elnur (2015). Major Players in the Muslim Business World. Universal Publishers.</ref><ref name=":1" /> According to her, she comes from a family of medical doctors and she studied economic theory in 2003 at University of Istanbul and became a Miesian. In 2006, Hoppe left Las Vegas and they "started a life together". As of 2024 their patchwork family consisted of four children and seven grandchildren. Emily Hoppe Dalton lives with her husband and children in California while his son Nick with wife and two daughters moved to Austria in 2019.<ref name="liber">Template:Cite book</ref>

Ther PFS Congress series takes place at their family-owned hotel, the Karia Princess in Bodrum.<ref name="liber"/>

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