Kurt R. Leube

  “She needed no invitation, she came and went when she felt like it. She was Viennese born and educated … highly intelligent, practical minded, and …good looking… and no one ever asked her in vain for help or assistance.” Margit von Mises (1896-1993)   The women who shaped Mises’ Vienna Seminar Even before women […]

  “Politicians or bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.” James M. Buchanan   It is 2026, and let us not forget one of the most seminal minds of our times, we should briefly recall the groundbreaking works of James M. Buchanan (1919-2013) who […]

  “This year’s laureates in the economic sciences, Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford, have developed new macroeconomic models that have significantly improved our ability to implement effective stabilization policy. On the basis of these models, well-timed fiscal and monetary policy measures can reduce the economy’s peaks and troughs”. Announcement of Sveriges Riksbank Prize in […]

  “I would like to set out in this book the reasons why the traditional state as a monopoly enterprise not only is an inefficient enterprise with a poor price-performance ratio, but even more importantly, becomes more of a danger for humanity the longer it lasts.” Hans-Adam II, Reigning Prince of Liechtenstein   First published […]

  “In the building practices of ancient Rome, when scaffolding was removed from a completed Roman arch, the Roman engineer stood beneath. If the arch came crashing down, he was the first to know. Thus his concern for the quality of the arch was intensely personal, and it is not surprising that so many Roman […]