Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The good people at the Mises Institute are finally putting a little more of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's brilliant libertarian argumentation into the spot-light (buy a book). A short quote:

The state is also not in the same way constrained by competition as is a productive firm. Unlike such a firm, the state must not keep its cost of operation at a minimum but can operate at above-minimum costs because it is able to shift its higher costs onto competitors by taxing or regulating their behavior. Thus, the size of the state also cannot be considered as constrained by cost competition. Insofar as it grows, it does so in spite of the fact that it is not cost-efficient.

Despite all of the masterpieces of Mises, Rothbard and other libertarian writers, few have made such a focused effort to build up the ethics of liberty by strict use of undeniable logic/fact as have Hans-Hermann Hoppe (like, e.g. Mises's "man acts"). Men really have to deny the self-ownership of man to deny the logics of Mr. Hoppe, and today that is not a fashionable thing to deny. Not even for hardcore-socialists.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe is perhaps the most important, living libertarian thinker, or who else could that be? Important of course meaning: Can teach modern libertarians more, better and sounder than any other can.