Kurt R. Leube

The subtitle of this essay has been borrowed from Terry L. Anderson’s conference on ‘Markets vs. Mandates. Promoting Environmental Quality and Economic Prosperity’, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Jan. 30, 2023. Permission granted. Take Away The scarcity of means to satisfy given ends is an omnipresent condition of life and all conscious human actions profoundly affect […]

  Eines der versprechendsten grossen Bücher, die einen Neudruck verdienen würden, ist wahrscheinlich von Mises’ Nationalökonomie. Theorie des Handelns und Wirtschaftens (1940). Durch sein Erscheinungsdatum ist es in Deutschland praktisch unbekannt geblieben, aber doch die einzige Version, in der Mises’ eigene Sprache erhalten ist. Friedrich A. von Hayek* Take Away Ludwig von Mises’ grosse Leistung […]

Take away Due to its liberal constitution of 1853 and dependable noninterventionist policies between the 1860s and the end of WWI, Argentina enjoyed its most prosperous period yet.  By 1913 Argentina was a free market-oriented powerhouse and ranked among the world’s ten richest countries per capita with an advanced educational system and a comparatively well-developed […]

  Hardy Bouillon*: Business Ethics and the Austrian Tradition in Economics. Routledge, London, 2021. Originally published in German as “Wirtschaft, Ethik und Gerechtigkeit”, vol. IX, ECAEF, “Studien zur Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsordnung”. I This book is not politically correct and thus will almost certainly provoke some heated debates. In the course of four short chapters, with concluding […]

  Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power. Ludwig von Mises It is Oct. 10, 2023, and lest we forget one of the most seminal minds of our times, we should briefly recall the life and important work of Ludwig von Mises, who died 50 years ago […]