Kurt R. Leube

  “She is a very competent theoretical economist and also very good in applied economics. She was working at the Austrian Institute for Trade Cycle Research under Dr. Morgenstern, and I know that he was very pleased with her work and would be willing to give her good recommendations”. Gerhard Tintner (1907-1983) Although relatively little […]

  “Das wissenschaftliche Denken ist in aller Regel dazu verleitet, die sprachüblichen Vorstellungen und Begriffe zu übernehmen und mit unbedeutenden Modifikationen als grundsätzlich gültig und brauchbar anzuerkennen, ohne zu beachten, dass damit die ganze Oberflächlichkeit, Vieldeutigkeit und Unbestimmtheit, die ihnen naturgemäss anhaftet, in die Wissenschaft mit einzieht und ihren sicheren, selbständigen und unbeirrten Fortgang hemmt.” […]

  “In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence”. Herman Melville (1819-1891) Stretched along the Atlantic coast, from New Hampshire in the north to Georgia some 1,000 miles to the south, the 13 British colonies in North America […]

  “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people … They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty”.  Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)   Take Away The Declaration of Independence is a document created not around personalities or political passions, on the contrary it commenced around the enduring liberal key principles: Limited […]

  A brief outline for the XX. Gottfried von Haberler Conference Austrian Economics at Work   “Nobody can be a great economist who is only an economist – and I am even tempted to add that the economist who is only an economist is likely to become a nuisance if not a positive danger.”   […]