Property, Freedom and Society | Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Jeffrey Tucker interviews Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Distinguished Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 28 July 2011.

[snakeriverhombre]

This guy wrote one of the best books I've ever read in his book "Democracy the God that failed"!!!

[vinicius]

He mentioned us 😍
The free market will free individuals in Brazil

[Liberty-rnwy]

100% correct about Germany, a country I lived in. Centralized Germany gave us two world wars. Decentralized Germany gave us great culture and art and science. Nietzsche had a great line: "The state is the coldest of cold monsters and from its mouth comes this lie - 'I am the people'."

[somercet]

"A free trade zone only requires two sentences, 'whatever you want to ship out, you ship out, whatever you want to import, you can import.'" Thank you Mr Hoppe. Interesting that Europe is still free of free trade.

[Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too]

In a mere 75 seconds into the interview, he accomplishes the feat of articulating the truth, even when the subject matter is challenging and deeply personal. From that moment onward, we know there will be no tolerance for triviality or endeavors to inadequately rationalize facts. I already like this man. Strangely enough, I have always jumped over him whenever his name has come up during my forty years of being an anarcho-capitalist. I became one completely all by my own from an intuition there was something severely wrong with the world.

[KatsKettlebellDojo]

Currently reading Democracy: The God that Failed. It's one of the best books I've ever read in my life, totally blowing my mind, can't put it down.

[zbyszanna]

Btw. wasn't it Marx who said that democracy is the road to socialism? I think it was him.

[donstacy]

The "lost opportunity" of East Germany's reunification with West Germany also applies to the fantasized mergers of North Korea and South Korea and Taiwan and China.

[Liberty-rnwy]

I had the same exact experience in 1986 in East Germany with having to exchange money but nothing to buy but Marxist books. It was actually quite comical. I remember one book said environmentalism is a bourgeois illusion. And one book was called something like Abraham Lincoln and the US Communist Party. Books like that.

[zbyszanna]

I agree that Eastern Europeans were robbed blindly and the process which was used was called privatization (and it was a privatization of a sort, but had nothing to do with what market economists would advise). The problem is after some reforms used by the establishment to steal as much as possible, the window of free market was shut and is being sealed even tightly with every day and every new "reform".

[zbyszanna]

"Listen lad, if the Nobel Price perpetually awarded economic thought worked, there would be no crises." - this is exactly what people from Misesian circles been saying for ages. Misesians (free market economists) have almost nothing in common with those interventionists who usually receive the Prize of Central Bank of Sweden (better known as Nobel Prize in Economics). And yes, Misesians say it is exactly because of their failed interventionist policies we have constant crisises..

[zbyszanna]

If you understand capitalism as a free market capitalism, then there is no way it could have failed, because there wasn't any in the first place. What we have today (and had for a long time now) is a fascism light. Seriously you cannot call a market free if it has almost 70000 pages of regulations (and central banking).
Democracy is the worst system, when you want to have a free market. There is a book by Hoppe called "Democracy: a god that failed" which sheds more light onto it.

[josealfredoguerrerobautist]

I attended Mises University back in 1991 at Stanford University. Great lectures. He's awesome.

[zbyszanna]

Cont2: Austrians base their approach on 3 assumptions:
a) humans act
b) they have their ends (goals)
c) they use means to reach their ends (they choose best means possible - at least in their opinion).

[zbyszanna]

Cont 2: them pretty interesting. I think the best book to start is "Economy in one lesson" by Henry Hazzlit. Also there is "Man, Economy and the State" by M. Rothbard or "Human Action" by Mises (I haven't read it yet, but I've heard it is really good). You will see where Austrians come from and you will see your arguments are really not a critique of an Austrian way, but rather of the neoliberals.

[Krifko]

Tucker dresses like he is from the 1920's.

[TheEmperorsChampion]

Former leftists make the best libertarian/ free market advocates

[zbyszanna]

I said exactly what Hayek said. On the free market it is not necessary for any single entrepreneur to have complete knowledge of the market for the markets to work. Quite contrary, each entrepreneur only needs a handful of prices in order to be able to work efficiently. More to say, it is impossible for any single actor to posses such knowledge (even disregarding the enormous costs of gathering such data, parts of it will never be available to anyone but the final consumer).

[CurtHowland]

There is huge pressure that only "left" is against the status quo.

[IvanTheHeathen]

@orthzar Triple H!! LOL!! I LOVE IT!!! Motorhead should play every time Hans comes in to give a speech!