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Economy, Society, and History

by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Mises Institute, 2021210 pagesISBN 9781610167338

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Author
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
First published
2021
Format
PDF, EPUB, and Kindle
Pages
210
ISBN
9781610167338
Publisher
Mises Institute
License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

History & biography Austrian theory & method

In June 2004, Professor Hoppe presented a 10-lecture series, a sweeping historical narrative and vision for a society rooted in markets and property. Economy, Society, and History is a blueprint for understanding the world, rethinking it, and creating a better one.

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Who wrote Economy, Society, and History?
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (born 1949) is a German-American economist and philosopher who completed his dissertation under Jürgen Habermas before moving to the United States and studying under Murray Rothbard, whose chair at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas he… This archive holds 16 of Hoppe's works.

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15 chapters · 73,781 words · free to read here

  1. Front Matter
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Lecture 1: The Nature of Man and the Human Condition: Language, Property, and Production
  5. Lecture 2: The Spread of Humans around the World: The Extension and Intensification of the Division of Labor
  6. Lecture 3: Money and Monetary Integration: The Growth of Cities and the Globalization of Trade
  7. Lecture 4: Time Preference, Capital, Technology, and Economic Growth
  8. Lecture 5: The Wealth of Nations: Ideology, Religion, Biology, and Environment
  9. Lecture 6: The Production of Law and Order, Natural Order, Feudalism, and Federalism
  10. Lecture 7: Parasitism and the Origin of the State
  11. Lecture 8: From Monarchy to Democracy
  12. Lecture 9: State, War, and Imperialism
  13. Lecture 10: Strategy, Secession, Privatization, and the Prospects of Liberty
  14. Index
  15. About this edition
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