Concerning recent posts and yet another of Tom Palmer’s complaints about Hoppe’s decade-old criticism of Don Lavoie (RIP), Hoppe has just posted a recently-rediscovered copy of his short, but brilliant (my adjective) Comment on Don Lavoie from the 1994 Mont Pelerin Society.
This short, informal essay highlghts one of the best things about Hoppe: his unflagging, crystal-clear focus on reality and rationality, and his unwillingness to be snowed by hermeneuticians and other proponents of relativism and epistemobabble.Other salient and pathbreaking work by Hoppe, one of the foremost economic, philosophical, and social geniuses of our time, can be found here, including:
- In Defense of Extreme Rationalism: Thoughts on Donald McCloskey’s The Rhetoric of Economics
- On Certainty and Uncertainty, Or: How Rational Can Our Expectations Be?
- Economic Science and the Austrian Method (a defense of deductivism against its opponents)
- Time Preference, Government, and the Process of De-Civilization – From Monarchy to Democracy
- and related material in books such as A Theory of Socialism & Capitalism and The Economics and Ethics of Private Property