Comments (17)

• Christoph Kohring

  Happy birthday 3H!

  Christoph, concise at the foot of the Mont-Pèlerin

  Published: September 2, 2009 9:37 AM

• Joe

  Happy Birthday Dr. Hoppe!

  Listening to the Economy, Society & History Seminar mp3's as we speak. It rocks!

  Published: September 2, 2009 10:08 AM

• Dr. Hoppe's personal secretary

  Joe,

  Dr. Hoppe wants you to know he has decided to ban you from his future natural order community. Phrases such as "It rocks", have a decivilizing effect. Good luck with the pedophiles and fractional reserve banking theorists.

  Published: September 2, 2009 11:08 AM

• E. Harding

  Don't forget that Sept. 2nd is also Atlas Shrugged Day!:-)

  Published: September 2, 2009 11:25 AM

• mpolzkill

  Dr. Hoppe's personal secretary,

  [snicker] Excellent. I don't think most of us would be welcome in Kinsella's version either. But it's all good.

  Published: September 2, 2009 11:37 AM

• Dr. Hoppe

  I love rocks. They are so tough!

  Published: September 2, 2009 12:41 PM

• Bruce Koerber

  It surely would be good if people knew the name of the great economists and celebrated their contributions.

  Is there a growing awareness out there that Hans-Hermann Hoppe is a great economist? Maybe they will ask him what he thinks about the 'economics' of Krugman or about the true outcome of the actions of Bernanke.

  Let's hope.

  Published: September 2, 2009 12:56 PM

• Stephan Kinsella

  mpolzkill: "Excellent. I don't think most of us would be welcome in Kinsella's version either. But it's all good."

  This is a totally false and unfair smear. I and others here work tirelessly for liberty and tolerance and peace.

  Published: September 2, 2009 1:11 PM

• Mechanized

  Happy Birthday Dr. Hoppe. Certainly the finest anarcho-capitalist alive. May we see many more to come.

  Published: September 2, 2009 1:16 PM

• Zach_the_Lizard

  Happy birthday! May you live to see many more.

  I've really enjoyed the lectures you have available through Mises.org. Through them (and through my other favorite lecturer, Walter Block), I've gained a great deal of information.

  Published: September 2, 2009 2:10 PM

• mpolzkill

  SK,

  That's not what I meant, we don't have to be in the same planned community to have liberty, peace and tolerance for each other. It was merely a joke about how, whether you're conscious of it or not, you sound like a Utopian to many people. And so what if you are? Are people in gated communities with covenants necessarily opposed to liberty, peace and well....OK, but what's wrong with some measure of intolerance? Freedom of association, right? I'm with Hoppes' secretary: no loud rock music near my house!

  We were speaking of communes though, right? I may be missing a reference, and Hoppe's secretary meant all rockers must leave North America or maybe the planet? If that's the joke, my sincere apologies for my obtuseness. I'm not down with that and its unfair to you both.

  If it is the world you're talking about taking over (peacefully, through pure reason), I want to leave the planet. I can't bear to read the idiotic responses your legal theories inspire (on the order of "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin") let alone wish to live in such a place. I don't know how you can take a wave of such buffoonishness every day and continue to entertain ideas of a human order based purely on reason.

  Published: September 2, 2009 2:12 PM

• J Cortez

  Happy birthday and thank you, Dr. Hoppe, for all of your contributions!
  

  Published: September 2, 2009 2:17 PM

• Vince

  Happy Birthday Prof. Hoppe. Even though you're not at unlv anymore...still big influence on my intellectual development.
  

  Published: September 2, 2009 2:47 PM

• Dave

  I agree with Hoppe on more subjects, than I do with any other thinker alive. His works nearly single handedly brought me from minarchy, to anarchy.

  And may I suggest to those who decide to smear Hoppe with the typical rhetoric, that they instead, attempt to impart liberty to 1/10 of the degree that Hoppe and others have, before making idiots out of themselves?

  Published: September 2, 2009 9:42 PM

• Fallon

  I, too, have been influenced by Prof. Hoppe to the point of rejecting the notion of state and democracy as proper means to a progressing civilization. I am very much grateful to Prof. Hoppe for the priceless understanding evolving in my head.

  On a lighter note, it would be delightful if Prof. Hoppe shared with us his thoughts on beer, his favorite etc.

  Happy Birthday, Professor! Thank you for your great works.

  Published: September 3, 2009 12:16 AM

• Lord Buzungulus, Bringer of the Purple Light

  Indeed, very happy birthday to Prof. Hoppe, a brilliant man whom I consider my intellectual hero.

  Someone who probably isn't wishing Prof. Hoppe a happy birthday is the foul and rotten Steve Horwitz. Here he is in action, pretending that Rothbardians do not have a theory of monetary demand:

  http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2009/09/mises-defining-inflation-the-monetary-equilibrium-way-in-1951.html#comments

  That's what happens when you only read the first 66 pages of a book like Man, Economy, and State.
  

  Published: September 3, 2009 10:56 AM

• Jason Gordon

  Belated wishes.
  http://tinyurl.com/lb8o43

  Published: September 8, 2009 9:38 AM