A reason why St. Moritz was chosen as the founding location is that three of the most influential works of classical liberalism of the last century (F.A. Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty; M. Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom and B. Leoni’s Freedom and the Law) are the result of lectures and discussions that Hayek, Friedman and Leoni, among others, had in 1957 in St. Moritz during a series of meetings organized by the Mont Pelerin Society (Kemp, A., introducing Leoni, B., 1991, Freedom and the Law (Liberty Fund, Indianapolis), p. xiii).

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Catallaxy Institute's founding members are Giovanni Birindelli (president), Alexander Wulf (vice president), Juan Diego Serrano and Oleksiy Kurka