num_pages: 144
description: A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline represents nothing less than a sweeping revisionist history of mankind in a concise and readable volume. Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe skillfully weaves history sociology ethics and Misesian praxeology to present an alternative  and highly challenging  view of human economic development over the ages.As always Dr. Hoppe addresses the fundamental questions as only he can. How do family and social bonds develop? Why is the concept of private property so vitally important to human flourishing? What made the leap from a Malthusian subsistence society to an industrial society possible? How did we devolve from aristocracy to monarchy to social democratic welfare states? And how did modern central governments become the all-powerful rulers over nearly every aspect of our lives?Dr. Hoppe examines and answers all of these often thorny questions without resorting to platitudes or bowdlerized history. This is Hoppe at his best: calmly and methodically skewering sacred cows.
language: English
title: A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline
publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute