The seminar The Austrian School in Historical Context: Its Rebirth and Continuing Relevance presented by the professor and economist Richard Ebeling, is a group of sessions where he discusses the pertinence of the several contributions the Austrian School of Economics made during the 20th century. In this session, Ebeling talks about the Austrian critique of […]

In 1974, the Institute for Humane Studies organized the first Austrian School conference starring Israel Kirzner, Ludwig Lachmann, Murray Rothbard and Friedrich Hayek which became the catalyst for the revival of this school of thought. In this video, Richard Ebeling, himself part of the Austrian School Family Tree, shares the major contributions made by the leading […]

El seminario está basado en el libro ¿Qué significan las leyes económicas?, la tesis doctoral de Joseph Keckeissen, un profesor ya fallecido que por muchos años impartió cursos y organizó los seminarios Ludwig von Mises y Friedrich A. Hayek en esta casa de estudios. Joe, como era llamado fue estudiante del Mises Seminar, en la […]

Gerard O’Driscoll, named honorary professor and awarded an honorary doctoral degree by UFM, highlights the importance of the book Road to Serfdom written by Friedrich Hayek and presents why collectivism doesn’t work during his speech in the ceremony for honor graduates of the November 2018 commencement. The fundamental problem of any kind of collectivism decisions is […]

El arquitecto Enrique Ramírez presenta conceptos filosóficos de Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Thomas Jefferson y otros exponentes de las ideas de la libertad, por medio de imágenes sobre metáforas del capitalismo. Cuenta que sus experimentos visuales comenzaron cuando inició su amistad con el exrector de esta casa de estudios, Giancarlo […]

Richard Ebeling introduces the lecture with the central banking and its functions. He also explains some individuals made some criticism against it, also proposed other ideas such as a system of market-based money and a private competitive banking system to replace the central banking. A lot of times people will say that deficit expanded by […]

Richard Ebeling in this session explains the causes and the consequences of the economic crisis of 1930 in the United States. Also, the Keynesian arguments about the crisis and the critics that the Austrian School of Economics gave to that theory. Richard presents the historical context of what happened in the USA before the crisis, […]

Control, stasis, dynamism, and progress are some themes exposed in this conference by Virginia Postrel. She starts discussing how technology has evolved, and how people have reacted in a pessimistic way to the concept of the future. She explains how culture, standards and the thinking process of individuals changes when technology does, using food as […]

En esta tercera sesión del seminario impartido por José Ignacio del Castillo sobre el libro The Clash of Economics Ideas (Lawrence White, 2012), se discuten el capítulo 6 y 7, que tratan de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el Camino de Servidumbre por Hayek, el socialismo posguerra de Gran Bretaña y el socialismo fabiano. El Camino […]

During the Ceremony for Honor Graduates of May 2018, Dwight R. Lee, who was named honorary professor and granted with an Honorary Doctoral Degree by Universidad Francisco Marroquín, gave an emotive speech to students and their families about the importance of economic freedom in the world. Lee has been an outstanding leader in front of […]

Doctor en Economía

Filmmaker, Tim Hedberg shares his story, the reasons that lead him to work in the projects he does and the most important things he has learned. He begins talking about his childhood and the questions he asked to himself and the inspiration he found in Friedrich Hayek’s book The Road to Serfdom, which taught him […]