The Economics and Ethics of Private Property

The Economics and Ethics of Private Property is the widest-ranging Hoppe book currently ingested into this wiki. It matters because it takes a property-centered framework and applies it across taxation, public goods, money, banking, class analysis, security, war, and ethics.

What the Book Covers

Unlike a single-line treatise, this book is a collection of substantial essays. The current full-text aggregate includes work on public-goods theory, taxation, banking and nation-states, class analysis, Keynesianism, money and credit, socialism, praxeology, and the transition from laissez-faire economics to libertarian ethics.

Why It Matters in This Wiki

This reference is one of the main raw foundations behind Sales Tax Incidence and Private Security and Insurance. It also reinforces the property-centered framing in Nonaggression and Property Rights.

Scope of the Full-Text Ingest

The present raw source consolidates the Mises EPUB edition into 27 spine documents. That gives the wiki a genuine multi-essay Hoppe source rather than a short description page and explains why this book keeps surfacing across several compiled concepts.

Relation to Hoppe’s Other Book

In the current graph, A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism is the cleaner comparative-systems statement, while this book is the wider application set. Together they make up the core of the present Hoppe footprint in the libertarian wiki.

Tax Incidence

For the specific sales-tax question, this book’s taxation chapter states that “no amount of any tax can be shifted onto consumers.” The surrounding argument is that forward shifting would require taxation to leave production untouched, and Hoppe treats that as logically impossible.

The underlying raw passage is here: The Economics and Sociology of Taxation

See Also

• Hans-Hermann Hoppe - author node connecting this book to the wider Hoppe corpus

• A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism - companion Hoppe book on capitalism, socialism, and property regimes

• Austrian Economics - broader economic topic shaped partly by this book’s arguments

• Nonaggression and Property Rights - property-centered moral baseline reinforced here

• Private Security and Insurance - article drawing on the book’s arguments about security production

• Sales Tax Incidence - focused article using the book’s tax-incidence argument

• Credit and Deferred Payment - draws on Hoppe’s parallel formulation of the present-good/future-good account of credit and the commodity-vs-circulation-credit distinction (and quotes Mises 1912 TMC via Hoppe)

• The Theory of Money and Credit - Mises’s 1912 treatise that EEPP quotes directly (TMC p. 268) when defending the present-good/future-good distinction against critics who would blur it

• The 2026 IMF SDR Climate Allocation: Analysis - newsroom thesis backlink

Sources

• The Economics and Ethics of Private Property (Full Text Aggregate) - full aggregated source from the Mises EPUB edition
• The Economics and Ethics of Private Property - Mises page metadata and descriptive framing