About this video Jacob G. Hornberger talks about central-planned education and its failure. He explains the reason for this problem is the fact that a handful of people are the ones that are planning the education for millions of citizens. He cites Friedrich A. Hayek on how individuals have knowledge of their situations while the […]

Credits The Austrian Economics and the Libertarian Ideal: Taxation and Redistribution Jacob G. Hornberger Auditorio Friedrich A. HayekUniversidad Francisco MarroquínGuatemala, August 9, 2001 A New Media – UFM. Copyright New Media / UFM, 2001Encoding: Christian Van Der Henst; index: Inés Zuñiga; GML: Fernando De León

About this video In 1776, Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, a book that is partially responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the increase of the standard of living. Previously, the world was mainly dominated by mercantilism in which the government had control over all the population’s economic activities and it falsely related wealth […]

About this video The United States of America has come a long way since it declared its independence in 1776. On that date, Thomas Jefferson expressed the idea that man has been endowed with certain fundamental rights given by nature or God; rights that pre-exist government. Although this couldn’t be any clearer, people tend to […]

El Dr. Manuel Ayau responde a varios cuestionamientos planteados por Carlos Alberto Montaner y comparte sus experiencias a lo largo de su vida como empresario, defensor de las ideas liberales, educador y político. Comenta que por deseos de su padre adquirió su formación académica en Estados Unidos pero no por ello ha dejado de ser […]

About this video Ruth Richardson describes the labor market and the way it is conducted in New Zealand. She compares it to Guatemala and states that the method of determining the terms of employment and labor in this country can be fatal to the desire of becoming a competitive nation. She also explains that the […]

  Créditos Economía libre y corrupción Alejandro A. Chafuen Auditorio Friedrich A. Hayek Universidad Francisco Marroquín Guatemala, 15 de abril 1999 Una producción de New Media, UFM. Guatemala, 15 de abril 1999. Índice: Lucía Bahr, GML: Pedro David España    

  Créditos Dolarizar, ¿sí?, ¿no? Moderador: José Raúl González Merlo Panelistas: Martín Krause, Guillermo Covernton, Julio Cole, Hugo Maul, Juan Carlos Cachanosky Auditorio Friedrich A. Hayek Universidad Francisco Marroquín Guatemala, 20 de julio de 1988 Una producción de New Media – UFM. Guatemala, 20 de julio de 1998 Índice: Joseph Cole, GML: Pedro David España […]

Acerca de este vídeo El Dr. Carlos Alberto Montaner, por medio de un análisis histórico, explica los orígenes del atraso de Latinoamérica, que a su criterio, están directamente relacionados con la influencia religiosa de la Iglesia Católica, que nace en Judea con la llegada de Cristo; pasa por interesantes procesos que van consolidando su organización […]

Credits Economic logic: microDr. Mark Skousen Auditorio Friedrich A. HayekUniversidad Francisco MarroquínGuatemala, 1998 Digitalized by New Media – UFMIndex: Inés Zúñiga; publication: Pedro David España

About this video Ruth Richardson turns this lecture into a study of economic liberty and the success story that New Zealand, her native country, has become. She lists the events that brought the reforming forces into play and the two reform waves that took place: One in 1964 by the Labour government and the other […]

Israel Kirzner explains one of the basic elements of economics: the law of supply and demand, as well as the model for price determination in a market and elaborates on why and how, viewed from an Austrian perspective, this economic model works. He refers to Friedrich A. Hayek’s insight on equilibrium and disequilibrium, indicating that […]