Introduction: An Austro-Libertarian Reconstruction

A Short History of Man by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Tags: Political Theory, Praxeology, World History

03/16/2015 Hans-Hermann Hoppe

In the introduction to his A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline, Hoppe outlines his goal of contributing to the old tradition of grand social theory and render the long course of human history from its very beginnings to the present age more intelligible. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.

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