Erstmals in deutscher Ubersetzung liegt hiermit die frUhe Schrift "Economic Science and the Austrian Method" des Okonomen und Philosophen Hans Hermann Hoppe vor. Aufbauend auf den Werken von Ludwig von Mises entwickelt Hoppe ein VerstAndnis der Okonomik als einer apriorischen Wissenschaft vom menschlichen Handeln. Ein grundlegender Beitrag zur Methodik der Osterreichischen Schule und ein Klassiker der Wissenschaftstheorie und Epistemologie.

Die folgenden Studien behandeln die Frage, Wie soli eine Gesellschaft geordnet wer den; und warum so und nicht anders'? Derart mit normativen Problem en befagt, unterscheiden sie sich grundsatzlich von der in der sozial- und politikwissenschaftli chen Literatur gegenwartig immer exklusiver gepflegten Form empirischer For schung, bei der normative Fragen entweder vollstandig ausgeblendet oder - ver breiteter noch und fragwurdiger - durch beliebig herbeizitierte subjektive Meinun gen, gelost' werden, und die von daher praktisch irrelevant bleiben mug oder als partikularistische (parteiliche)...

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Here is Hans Hoppe's first treatise in English - actually his first book in English - and the one that put him on the map as a social thinker and economist to watch. He argued that there are only two possible archetypes in economic affairs: socialism and capitalism. All systems are combinations of those two types. The capitalist model he defines as pure protection of private property, free association, and exchange - no exceptions. All deviations from that ideal are species of socialism, with public ownership and interference with...

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Richard Ritter von Strigl (1891-1942) was one of the most brilliant Austrian economists of the interwar period. As a professor at the University of Vienna he had a decisive influence on Hayek, Machlup, Haberler, Morgenstern, and other fourth-generation Austrian economists. Very few classic works on capital and business cycles in the Austrian tradition have been translated from the original German. Strigl's important contribution to Austrian capital theory is brought to the English-speaking world for the first time. The book links Eugen...

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With eleven chapters by top libertarian scholars on all aspects of defense, this book edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe represents an ambitious attempt to extend the idea of free enterprise to the provision of security services. It argues that "national defense" as provided by government is a myth not unlike the myth of socialism itself. Defense services are more viably privatized and replaced by the market provision of security. From the introduction: "Even aside from day-to-day security risks, the reality of terrorism and its resulting...

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"Do not steal" is an excellent principle of ethics; it is also the first principle of sound economic systems. In our time, no one has done more than Hans-Hermann Hoppe to elaborate on the sociological implications of this truth. And this is his great work on the topic. The Austrian tradition is known for offering the most hard-core defense of private property, and the most consistent application of that principle, of any school of economics. The work of Hoppe--a leading student of Rothbard's whose books have been translated into a dozen...

The collapse of socialism across Eastern Europe - as manifested most dramatically by the events of the forever memorable November 9, 1989, when the Germans of East and West reunited, moved and overjoyed, on top of the Berlin Wall - has added more support and urgency to the central thesis of this volume than I had ever hoped for. Whether the following studies deal with economic topics, such as employment, interest, money, banking, business cycles, taxes, public goods, or growth; with philosophical problems as the foundations of know ledge, and of economics and ethics in particular; or the...

Anmerkungen zu Kapitell 1 Vgl. hierzu z.B. Ezekiel/Fox, Methods of Correlation and Regression Analysis, New York 1966; Rao/Miller, Applied Econometrics, Belmont 1971; PindyckiRubinfeld, Econometric Models and Economic Forecasts, New York 1976. 2 Vgl. hierzu z.B. L. Robbins, Tbe Nature and Significance of Economic Science, London 1935; L. v. Mises, Human Action. A Treatise on Economics, Chicago 1966. - Die Kritik der logischen (Gegensatz: mathematischen) okonomen verdient darum besonders hervorgeho ben zu werden, weil sie deudich macht, dass es keineswegs - wie von okonometrikem regel massig...