Prof. Hoppe's articles in Spanish

March 5, 2009 3:33 PM by Juan Fernando Carpio

A selection of prof. Hans-Hermann Hoppe's essays, articles and book chapters has been translated into Spanish and published in the new book Libertad o Socialismo (Liberty or Socialism). Translated essays include articles such as Natural Elites, Intellectuals, and the State, and The Intellectual Cover For Socialism.

Published by the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, it goes to press with a printing of 3,000 copies for the first printing. A free copy of the book is online here; ordering information for the print version will be available presently here.

More Spanish translations of prof. Hoppe's works can be found here.

IP = right to profits. Nothing more and nothing less.

January 3, 2008 9:28 AM by Juan Fernando Carpio

IP is the manifestation on creativity of an underlying Marxist theme: the labor theory of value.

What if I discover/invent something but others market it first? What if they market it better?

Am I not entitled to profits for my discovery or invention?

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The New-Old Economics of the Latin American Left

November 17, 2007 7:52 AM by Juan Fernando Carpio

Re-nationalization, high tariffs, Keynesian monetary and fiscal "policy", and all the U.N.'s CEPAL recipe for disaster is back in Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador. Having to say a lot on the subject, let me just begin with Hugo Chavez's proposal for an expiring, voucher-based currency.

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