Kurt R. Leube

  “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.”   […]

  Zur 127. Wiederkehr seines Geburtstages am 8. Mai   “Before we explain why people commit mistakes, we must first explain why they should ever be right.” F.A. von Hayek I Weit mehr als die anderen sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen scheint insbesondere die Nationalökonomie der periodischen Wiederholung längst widerlegter Thesen und den modischen Begriffen des jeweils herrschenden […]

  Memorizing a great Austrian scholar after 100 years.     “The value of goods is derived from the value of wants.” Friedrich von Wieser   TAKE AWAY Friedrich von Wieser taught at the universities of Vienna and Prague and succeeded Carl Menger at the University of Vienna in 1903. Together with his brother-in-law Eugen […]