Matt Bruenig on Hans-Hermann Hoppes libertarianism is very entertaining. And instructive: Hoppe explains that he does not intend to engage in standard history, i.e., history as it is written by historians, but to offer a logical or sociological reconstruction of history, informed by actual historical events, but motivated more fundamentally by theoretical — philosophical and economic — concerns. Gordon refers to this method as theoretical history and counts Hoppe as one of the masters of the genre but others may know this method by its more familiar name — just making stuff up — and observe that Hoppe is the master of the genre only because hes the sole person writing in it.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 02:30:55 +0000
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