Kurt R. Leube

On Bernard de Mandeville’s 355. Anniversary of his birth Take Away Bernard de Mandeville (1670-1733) is the author of “The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices, Public Advantages” (1714). Written in verse, this book is the very foundation of his cultural and social theory. For Mandeville virtuous individuals are not necessarily the source of […]

    The principle of equity embodied in The Flat Tax is that every taxpayer pays taxes in direct proportion to his income. As incomes double, triple, or grow tenfold, tax obligations double, triple, or rise tenfold. Those who earn more pay more. Alvin Rabushka and Robert E. Hall     Take Away The Flat […]

  Nowhere is freedom more important than where our ignorance is greatest – at the boundaries of knowledge, in other words, where nobody can predict what lies a step ahead. Friedrich A. von Hayek (1899-1992)   Take Away Published in 1960, on the 100th anniversary of J. St. Mill’s essay ‘On Liberty’, Friedrich A. von […]

  The system of protection, as much as it forms the only means of placing those nations which are far behind in civilization on equal terms with the one predominating nation, appears to be the most efficient means of furthering the final union of nations, and hence also of promoting true freedom of trade. Friedrich […]

  They charge us, we charge them, we charge them less. So how can anybody be upset? They will be, because we never charged anybody anything. But now we’re going to charge. Donald J. Trump   In a rather pompous fashion, with great fanfare and with his most loyal entourage attentively sitting in the audience, […]