Professor Hoppe will present his views on the nature of government, including competition among governments, and the tendency toward political centralization.He will then review the displacement of a market provided commodity money by a government provided fiat (paper) money and discuss the relationship between international politics and the international monetary system.

Dr. Hoppe, a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, is professor of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he taught with Murray N. Rothbard from 1985 to 1995.

He is the author of Handln und Erkennen (1976), Kritik deer Kausalwissenschaftlichen Sozialforschung (1983), Eigentum, Anarchie, und Staat (1987), A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism (1989), and The Economics and Ethics of Private Property (1993), as well as many articles in the former Review of Austrian Economics.

He is co-editor of The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Journal of Libertarian Studies, general editor of the Scholar's Edition of Human Action, and author of the introduction to the new edition of Ethics of Liberty (1998).

He earned his PhD (1974) and Habilitation (1981) at Frankfurt's Göthe University.