famous austrians

  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 […]

  Mit dem gänzlich unerwarteten Tod Michael Kastner’s (März 17, 2025) haben die deutschsprachigen Vertreter der Austrian School of Economics einen ebenso liebenswerten Freund, wie mutigen und verlaesslichen Unterstuetzer der Ideen der österr. Schule verloren. Michael’s typischer Humor war sehr geschätzt, sein bedingungsloser Einsatz für den Liberalismus war ein Vorbild. Michael Kastner’s ‘buchausgabe.de’ war nicht […]

  I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world. Alas, for the illusions of youth: as a horseman, I was never really first-rate. Joseph A. Schumpeter   Take Away Joseph A. Schumpeter is considered one of the most influential social scholars […]

  If it is the rule of the game that two persons may dispossess a third who must submit to being dispossessed, the rule is unjust. Anthony de Jasay Take Away Based on a solid epistemology, the main aim of Anthony de Jasay’s philosophical work was to reformulate political and economic liberalism. His writings offer […]

On the ‘useless preachings’ of a great liberal thinker. by Raffaele De Mucci (LUISS)   The purpose of this contribution is theoretical rather than historiographical. It aims to offer a reconstruction of some key aspects of Luigi Einaudi’s liberal thought, particularly those that are most relevant to understand Einaudi’s positioning regarding the “great divide” between […]