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Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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Hans-Hermann Hoppe (; German: [ˈhɔpə]; born 2 September 1949) is a German-American academic associated with Austrian School economics, anarcho-capitalism, right-wing libertarianism, and opposition to democracy. He is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), senior fellow of the Mises Institute think tank, and the founder and president of the Property and Freedom Society.Hoppe has written extensively in opposition to 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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans-Hermann Hoppe has received more than 1,137,903 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Hans-Hermann Hoppe is the 162nd most popular economist (up from 181st in 2019), the 1,967th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,396th in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Hans-Hermann Hoppe ranks 162 out of 315Before him are Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, James Heckman, Oskar R. Lange, Bengt Holmström, Robert F. Engle, and Frank Knight. After him are Piero Sraffa, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Paul Milgrom, Nicholas Kaldor, Peter Diamond, and Wilhelm Röpke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Hans-Hermann Hoppe ranks 139Before him are Michael W. Young, Paul Rodgers, Thierry Sabine, José Pékerman, Ric Flair, and Lindsay Wagner. After him are Carlos Bianchi, David Foster, Georges Leekens, Leslie Easterbrook, Alexander Gradsky, and Alice Walton.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans-Hermann Hoppe ranks 1,967 out of 6,142Before him are Prince Albert of Prussia (1837), Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694), Friedrich Naumann (1860), Christoph Probst (1919), Friedrich Wieck (1785), and Johann Georg Gmelin (1709). After him are Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Theodor Lipps (1851), Louis VI, Elector Palatine (1539), Louis IV, Elector Palatine (1424), Gottfried Silbermann (1683), and Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803).

Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Hans-Hermann Hoppe ranks 18Before him are Oskar Morgenstern (1902), Adolph Wagner (1835), Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Ernest Mandel (1923), Ernst Engel (1821), and Gustav von Schmoller (1838). After him are Wilhelm Röpke (1899), Walter Eucken (1891), Lujo Brentano (1844), Adam Müller (1779), Albert O. Hirschman (1915), and E. F. Schumacher (1911).