Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Overview
Hans-Hermann Hoppe is an Austrian School
Austrian School
The Austrian School of economics is a heterodox school of economic thought. It advocates methodological individualism in interpreting economic developments , the theory that money is non-neutral, the theory that the capital structure of economies consists of heterogeneous goods that have...

 economist
Economist
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 of the anarcho-capitalist
Anarcho-capitalism
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 tradition, and a Professor Emeritus of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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.
Born in Peine
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, West Germany
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, he attended the Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken
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, and the Goethe University
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main
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, Frankfurt am Main, studying philosophy
Philosophy
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, sociology
Sociology
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, history
History
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, and economics
Economics
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. His doctoral studies began with Marxist thought, under Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theory on the concepts of 'communicative rationality' and the 'public sphere'...

 as his Ph.D advisor. However he quickly became disillusioned in this pursuit. He earned his Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
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 in Philosophy from the Goethe-Universität in 1974.
Quotations

[The] property right in one's own body must be said to be justified a priori, for anyone who would try to justify any norm whatsoever would already have to presuppose the exclusive right to control over his body as a valid norm simply in order to say "I propose such in such."

The Economics and Ethics of Private Property (2nd edition, Ludwig von Mises Institute: 2006): 335

 
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