Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans-Hermann Hoppe (born 2 September 1949) is a German-American philosopher and economist associated with Austrian School economics, anarcho-capitalism, right-wing libertarianism, paleolibertarianism, and opposition to democracy. From 1986 until 2008 he was professor of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). He was a senior fellow of the Mises Institute think tank until being removed in April 2026. In 2006 he emigrated to Turkey and founded the Property and Freedom Society. Hoppe has written extensive criticisms of democracy, notably in his 2001 book Democracy: The God That Failed. The book favors exclusionary covenant communities that are "founded for the purpose of protecting family and kin". A section of the book favoring exclusion of democrats and homosexuals from society helped popularize Hoppe on the far-right. Some of the speakers invited at his Property and Freedom Society conferences in Turkey have been white nationalists. Hoppe was a protégé of Murray Rothbard, who established him at UNLV, where Hoppe taught from 1986 to 2008. 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and time preference led to an investigation and non-disciplinary letter to Hoppe by UNLV, which was subsequently withdrawn after a controversy over academic freedom. At the September 2026 PFS meeting, Hoppe made comments about the Holocaust that scholars such as philosopher Matt Zwolinski from Bleeding Heart Libertarians have described as Holocaust denial.

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