Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 29 minutes ago
Is democracy actually better than monarchy? Hans Hermann Hoppe quite literally wrote the book on this. In “Democracy: The God That Failed” Hoppe gave many, many arguments claiming that in fact a monarchy as we saw in the yesteryears of Europe did a better job at preserving the liberty and wealth of their people than modern democracy does. These monarchies are still very, very far from the ideal of voluntaryism, but a value-free assessment of the two systems tells you which is better, not which is best. The reasons lie with transfer of power, economic time preference, levels of taxation, decentralisation, war and many more. And the sum argument is indeed very convincing.
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Is democracy actually better than monarchy? Hans Hermann Hoppe quite literally wrote the book on this. In “Democracy: The God That Failed” Hoppe gave many, many arguments claiming that in fact a monarchy as we saw in the yesteryears of Europe did a better job at preserving the liberty and wealth of their people than modern democracy does. These monarchies are still very, very far from the ideal of voluntaryism, but a value-free assessment of the two systems tells you which is better, not which is best. The reasons lie with transfer of power, economic time preference, levels of taxation, decentralisation, war and many more. And the sum argument is indeed very convincing.
Video in the intro: youtu.be/ZsIUjxOXFkE
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