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Hans-Hermann Hoppe (born September 2, 1949) is an Austrian school economist of the anarcho-capitalist tradition, and a former economics professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

He earned his Ph.D. (Philosophy, 1974) and his Habilitation (Foundations of Sociology and Economics, 1981), both from the Goethe-Universität. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from 1976 to 1978. In 1986, he moved from Germany to the United States, to study under Murray Rothbard. He remained a close associate until Rothbard’s death in January 1995. Hoppe was Professor of Economics at University of Nevada, Las Vegas until retirement in 2008.

He gave a series of speeches at conferences that were organized by Lew Rockwell, Burt Blumert, and Murray Rothbard for the purpose of creating what came to be known as paleo-libertarianism.

Hoppe is a Distinguished Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and, until December, 2004, the editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies. The author of several widely-discussed books and articles, he has put forth an “argumentation ethics” defense of libertarian rights, based in part on the discourse ethics theories of German philosophers Jürgen Habermas (Hoppe’s PhD advisor) and Karl-Otto Apel. In 2005, he founded the Property and Freedom Society. (CC Wikipedia 04/01/2010)

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