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On March 4, 2004, during a lecture in a course on money and banking, Hoppe stated that, in part owing to the fact that they are generally childless, homosexuals do not plan for the future to the same extent as heterosexuals. Hoppe said that homosexuals, like the very young and the very old, are more present-oriented with respect to their behavioral patterns, and also stated some economists believed that [[John Maynard Keynes]]' "spend it now" philosophy was influenced by his homosexuality. A student later formally accused Hoppe of creating a "hostile classroom environment".<ref name=Lake>Richard Lake, [http://web.archive.org/web/20050209040615/http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Feb-05-Sat-2005/news/25808494.html UNLV accused of limiting free speech], [[Las Vegas Review-Journal]], February 05, 2005.</ref>
On March 4, 2004, during a lecture in a course on money and banking, Hoppe stated that, in part owing to the fact that they are generally childless, homosexuals do not plan for the future to the same extent as heterosexuals. Hoppe said that homosexuals, like the very young and the very old, are more present-oriented with respect to their behavioral patterns, and also stated some economists believed that [[John Maynard Keynes]]' "spend it now" philosophy was influenced by his homosexuality. A student later formally accused Hoppe of creating a "hostile classroom environment".<ref name=Lake>Richard Lake, [http://web.archive.org/web/20050209040615/http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Feb-05-Sat-2005/news/25808494.html UNLV accused of limiting free speech], [[Las Vegas Review-Journal]], February 05, 2005.</ref>


An investigation was conducted and the university's provost, [[Raymond W. Alden III]], issued Hoppe a non-disciplinary letter of instruction on February 9, 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."<ref>{{cite web|last=Alden, III|first=Raymond W.|title=Findings and non-disciplinary letter of instruction|url=http://www.mises.org/pdf/hoppeletter.pdf|authorlink=Raymond W. Alden III|date=February 9, 2005}}</ref>
An investigation was conducted and the university's provost, [[Raymond W. Alden III]], issued Hoppe a non-disciplinary letter of instruction on February 9, 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", asserted that Hoppe's opinion was not supported by peer-reviewed academic literature, and criticized Hoppe for "refusing to substantiate" his statement about homosexuals with any evidence, despite being repeatedly asked to provide it. <ref>{{cite web|last=Alden, III|first=Raymond W.|title=Findings and non-disciplinary letter of instruction|url=http://www.mises.org/pdf/hoppeletter.pdf|authorlink=Raymond W. Alden III|date=February 9, 2005}}</ref>{{undue-inline |date=May 2013}}


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, ''[http://archive.mises.org/3137/the-thought-police-and-hoppe/ Professor, ACLU may sue UNLV]'', ''The Rebel Yell''{{Unreliable source|date=May 2013}}, February 10, 2005; reprinted by [[Stephen Kinsella]] at Mises.org, February 10, 2005.</ref> He was represented by the [[American Civil Liberties Union]]. ACLU attorney Allen Lichtenstein said "The charge against professor Hoppe is totally specious and without merit".<ref name=Lake/>
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, ''[http://archive.mises.org/3137/the-thought-police-and-hoppe/ Professor, ACLU may sue UNLV]'', ''The Rebel Yell''{{Unreliable source|date=May 2013}}, February 10, 2005; reprinted by [[Stephen Kinsella]] at Mises.org, February 10, 2005.</ref> He was represented by the [[American Civil Liberties Union]]. ACLU attorney Allen Lichtenstein said "The charge against professor Hoppe is totally specious and without merit". The local ACLU chapter president stated that while "[w]e don't subscribe to Hans' theories and certainly understand why some students find them offensive," university attempts to reprimand Hoppe for stating them violated his academic freedom.<ref name=Lake/>{{undue-inline |date=May 2013}}


On February 18, 2005, [[Carol Harter]], President of UNLV, dismissed the discrimination charge and the non-disciplinary letter was withdrawn from Hoppe's personnel file.<ref name="Snyder">{{cite journal|last=Snyder|first=Martin D.|title=Birds of a Feather?|journal=Academe|date=March 1, 2005|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-829841891.html|accessdate=April 17, 2013, from [[HighBeam Research]]|publisher=American Association of University Professors}}</ref> She wrote:
On February 18, 2005, [[Carol Harter]], President of UNLV, dismissed the discrimination charge and the non-disciplinary letter was withdrawn from Hoppe's personnel file.<ref name="Snyder">{{cite journal|last=Snyder|first=Martin D.|title=Birds of a Feather?|journal=Academe|date=March 1, 2005|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-829841891.html|accessdate=April 17, 2013, from [[HighBeam Research]]|publisher=American Association of University Professors}}</ref> She wrote:

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Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Born (1949-09-02) September 2, 1949 (age 75)
Peine, West Germany
NationalityGerman American
Academic career
FieldAustrian Economics, Political Philosophy
InstitutionUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas
School or
tradition		Austrian School
Alma materGoethe University Frankfurt
InfluencesLudwig von Mises
Murray Rothbard
Jürgen Habermas
Karl-Otto Apel
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
ContributionsArgumentation ethics, Analysis of democracy and public goods theory
AwardsThe Frank T. and Harriet Kurzweg Award (2004)
The Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize (2006)

Hans-Hermann Hoppe (German: [ˈhɔpə]; born September 2, 1949) is a German-born libertarian philosopher who describes himself as an advocate of private law society.[3][4] Hoppe is the author of several books and his work has been translated into 22 languages.[5] He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas[6] and currently resides in Istanbul, Turkey.[4]

Career

Hoppe was born in Peine, West Germany, studied philosophy, history, sociology and economics at the Universität des Saarlandes and did his graduate work at the University of Frankfurt where he received a PhD in Philosophy in 1974. In graduate school, he initially read Marxist thought under Prof. Jürgen Habermas, but his orientation began to change after he read Böhm Bawerk's criticism of Marxism.[7] 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. He taught at several German universities and at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center for Advanced International Studies, Italy.[8] In 1986, he moved from Germany to the United States, where he was associated with Murray Rothbard.[9] until the latter's death in January 1995. Hoppe was Professor in the School of Business at University of Nevada, Las Vegas until his retirement in 2008. He was involved in the formation of what came to be called paleo-libertarianism.[10]

Hoppe has been editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies, co-editor of the Review of Austrian Economics, and coeditor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and the author of several articles and books. In 2006, he founded The Property & Freedom Society.[11]

Argumentation ethics

Main article: Argumentation ethics

Hoppe stated his theory of Argumentation ethics as an attempt to establish a priori and value-neutral justification for libertarian ethics.[12]

Hoppe outlined his concept in the publication Liberty in September 1988. In the following issue, the publication carried comments from a number of libertarian thinkers followed by a response to the comments from Hoppe. In his comment, 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".[12]

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Main article: Democracy: The God That Failed

In 2001, Hoppe published Democracy: The God That Failed. In it, Hoppe compares monarchies with democratic states. Hoppe states that perverse incentives inherent in a democracy make it more prone to destroy wealth than a comparable monarchical regime. Hoppe states that because citizens of a democracy are able to participate in government, their resistance to abuse of government power is less than in monarchies, in which abusive rulers were often overthrown and killed.

Hoppe wrote in the book: "They – the advocates of alternative, non-family and kin-centred 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."[13]

Walter Block, a colleague of Hoppe's at the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, wrote that Hoppe's comments calling for "homosexuals and others to be banned from polite society" was "exceedingly difficult to reconcile it with libertarianism" because "the libertarian philosophy would support the rights of both groups to act in such manners."[14] Stephan Kinsella wrote that Hoppe was referring to "private, covenant-based communities—in particular the ones based on more traditional, culturally-conservative heterosexual-family-based norms—who would tend to 'be intolerant of advocates of' ideas incompatible with, or openly hostile to, or 'contrary to the very purpose of' the norms of such a traditionalist covenant."[15]

Immigration

Hoppe has advanced the position that in a non anarcho-capitalist society some restrictions on immigration are a "second best" option.[16][non-primary source needed]

First, with the establishment of a state and territorially defined state borders, “immigration” takes on an entirely new meaning. In a natural order, immigration is a person’s migration from one neighborhood-community into a different one (micro-migration). In contrast, under statist conditions immigration is immigration by “foreigners” from across state borders, and the decision whom to exclude or include, and under what conditions, rests not with a multitude of independent private property owners or neighborhoods of owners but with a single central (and centralizing) state-government as the ultimate sovereign of all domestic residents and their properties (macro-migration). If a domestic resident-owner invites a person and arranges for his access onto the resident-owner’s property but the government excludes this person from the state territory, it is a case of forced exclusion (a phenomenon that does not exist in a natural order). On the other hand, if the government admits a person while there is no domestic resident-owner who has invited this person onto his property, it is a case of forced integration (also non-existent in a natural order, where all movement is invited).

Walter Block wrote about Hoppe's immigration position in a 1999 article, "A Libertarian Case for Free Immigration."[17][need quotation to verify]

Academic freedom controversy

On March 4, 2004, during a lecture in a course on money and banking, Hoppe stated that, in part owing to the fact that they are generally childless, homosexuals do not plan for the future to the same extent as heterosexuals. Hoppe said that homosexuals, like the very young and the very old, are more present-oriented with respect to their behavioral patterns, and also stated some economists believed that John Maynard Keynes' "spend it now" philosophy was influenced by his homosexuality. A student later formally accused Hoppe of creating a "hostile classroom environment".[18]

An investigation was conducted and the university's provost, Raymond W. Alden III, issued Hoppe a non-disciplinary letter of instruction on February 9, 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", asserted that Hoppe's opinion was not supported by peer-reviewed academic literature, and criticized Hoppe for "refusing to substantiate" his statement about homosexuals with any evidence, despite being repeatedly asked to provide it. [19][undue weight? – discuss]

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".[20] He was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU attorney Allen Lichtenstein said "The charge against professor Hoppe is totally specious and without merit". The local ACLU chapter president stated that while "[w]e don't subscribe to Hans' theories and certainly understand why some students find them offensive," university attempts to reprimand Hoppe for stating them violated his academic freedom.[18][undue weight? – discuss]

On February 18, 2005, Carol Harter, President of UNLV, dismissed the discrimination charge and the non-disciplinary letter was withdrawn from Hoppe's personnel file.[21] She wrote:

UNLV, in accordance with policy adopted by the Board of Regents, understands that the freedom afforded to Professor Hoppe and to all members of the academic community carries a significant corresponding academic responsibility. In the balance between freedoms and responsibilities, and where there may be ambiguity between the two, academic freedom must, in the end, be foremost.[22]

Hoppe later wrote about the incident in an article called "My Battle With the Thought Police".[23] Martin Snyder of the American Association of University Professors wrote in the organization's publication Academe that "Freedom of faculty members to express views, however unpopular or distasteful, is an essential condition of an institution of higher learning that is truly free.[21]

Works

Books

Interviews

Articles

  • Collection of Hoppe's publications
  • Full text of Hoppe's 1998 introduction to The Ethics of Liberty by Murray Rothbard (also in PDF format)
  • Hoppe, Hans Hermann (1988). "On the Ultimate Justification of the Ethics of Private Property" (PDF). Liberty. 2. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Hoppe, Hans Hermann. "In Defense of Extreme Rationalism: Thoughts on D. McCloskey's The Rhetoric of Economics" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • Hoppe, Hans Hermann (1988). "breakthrough or buncombe?" (PDF). Liberty. 2. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • "My Battle With the Thought Police" Hoppe's own account on what happened
  • Hoppe's archives at LewRockwell.com
  • Hoppe, Hans Hermann (1996). "Small is Beautiful and Efficient: The Case for Secession". Telos. 107. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

Festschrift

Further information: Festschrift

See also

References

  1. ^ Hoppe, Hans-Hermann (1996). "Socialism: A Property or Knowledge Problem?" (PDF) (1): 143–49. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ Hans-Hermann Hoppe and the German Extremist Nationalist Right by Tom Palmer (1 July 2005)
  3. ^ Block, Walter (1996). "Review of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Economics and Ethics of Private Property". Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines. 7 (1). doi:10.2202/1145-6396.1205. These two [Ludwig von Mises and Murry N Rothbard] are truly 'hard acts to follow'. But with the publication of The Economics and Ethics Private Property, Hoppe bids fair to one day claiming the mantle of worthy successor to these two pathbreaking thinkers. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  4. ^ a b Wile, Anthony (March 27, 2011). "Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the Impracticality of One-World Government and the Failure of Western-style Democracy". The Daily Bell.
  5. ^ Translations - (hanshoppe.com)
  6. ^ "UNLV Catalog" (PDF). Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  7. ^ Jeff Tucker interviews Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1 October 2011)
  8. ^ Hans-Hermann Hoppe Biography (mises.og)
  9. ^ "Juan Ramón Rallo interviews Mises Institute scholar Hans-Hermann Hoppe at the Instituto Juan de Mariana's".
  10. ^ Hoppe (The Lew Rockwell Blog)
  11. ^ The Property & Freedom Society
  12. ^ a b Symposium: Breakthrough or Buncombe? with comments from Murray Rothbard, David D. Friedman, Leland B. Yeager, David Gordon and Douglas B. Rasmussen and from Hans-Hermann Hoppe.(Liberty, November 1988) [Volume 2, Number 2]
  13. ^ Democracy: The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Transaction Publishers, 2001). [page needed]
  14. ^ 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 by Walter Block (Loyola University New Orleans) p. 22-23
  15. ^ Stephan Kinsella Hoppe on Covenant Communities and Advocates of Alternative Lifestyles, LewRockwell.com, 27 May 2010.
  16. ^ Hoppe, Hans Hermann (2002). "Natural Order, The State, and The Immigration Problem". Journal of Libertarian Studies. 16 (1). {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  17. ^ Block, Walter. "A Libertarian Case for Free Immigration." Journal of Libertarian Studies. Vol. 13, No. 2. 1999. [1]
  18. ^ a b Richard Lake, UNLV accused of limiting free speech, Las Vegas Review-Journal, February 05, 2005.
  19. ^ Alden, III, Raymond W. (February 9, 2005). "Findings and non-disciplinary letter of instruction" (PDF).
  20. ^ Justin Chomintra, Professor, ACLU may sue UNLV, The Rebel Yell[unreliable source?], February 10, 2005; reprinted by Stephen Kinsella at Mises.org, February 10, 2005.
  21. ^ a b Snyder, Martin D. (March 1, 2005). "Birds of a Feather?". Academe. American Association of University Professors. Retrieved April 17, 2013, from HighBeam Research. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  22. ^ Carol Harter (February 18, 2005). "Statement of Dr. Carol Harter, President of UNLV, regarding Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe" (PDF).
  23. ^ Hans-Hermann Hoppe, My Battle With the Thought Police, LewRockwell.com, April 12, 2005
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