(liberal-international.org)– (* 1902 Wien – +1993 London)
Karl R. Popper was one of the most eminent philosophers of the 20th century, who was primarily concerned with questions of epistemology and methodology. In his book “Logik der Forschung” (Logic of Scientific Discovery) of 1935 he...
(liberal-international.org)– (* 1801 Bayonne – +1850 Rome)
He was a liberal member in the National Assembly of the 1848 Revolution. He was head of the French Free Trade Association. He was (together with Victor Hugo) organiser of an international peace organisation. But most of all he was, what...
(liberal-international.org)– * 1810 Tucuman – + 1884 Paris)
An almost universally educated man, Juan Bautista Alberdi stands out as one of the foremost intellectual giants not only of his native Argentina, but also for the whole of Latin America. In the civil war, that ravaged Argentina in the...
(liberal-international.org)– (* 1899, Vienna – + 1992, Freiburg)
Friedrich August von Hayek´s role in the late 20th century collapse of socialism can be compared to the role Adam Smith played in 18th century enlightenment with respect to the creative power of freedom and the market economy....
(liberal-international.org)– (*1860, Saxony, Germany – +1919, Travemünde, Germany)
Born on March 25, 1860, in Saxony, Germany, as the son of a priest, Friedrich Naumann followed the family tradition and studied theology in Leipzig and Erlangen. As a social worker for the church and later a...
(liberal-international.org)– (* 1881, Lemberg [today: Lviv, Ukraine] – +1973 New York City)
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was strongly influenced and stimulated by the “Austrian School of Economics” (Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, etc.) during his studies at the Vienna University. “The...
