Chris Bosse, architect and cofounder of LAVA, a firm that fusions future technologies with patterns of organization found in nature to build a smarter, more socially and environmentally responsible future, visited UFM to talk about his company and the projects they have developed. He describes the ideas that LAVA wants to disseminate and that inspire […]

The economist from Duke University, Michael Munger, talks about the sharing economy and transaction costs, based on his latest book Tomorrow 3.0: Transaction Costs and the Sharing Economy (2018) and also conveys on some ideas he wants to develop in his next book. He begins explaining the argument he wants to figure into his new […]

The Austrian Theory of Firm Seminar lead by the economist and professor Peter Klein is a group discussion of the benefits and costs of firms, their role in markets and the perspectives of different authors about this type of organization in free markets. In this last session, professor Klein analyzes the article “Entrepreneurship and the […]

En la segunda sesión, Miguel Anxo Bastos expone su perspectiva de la salida de Gran Bretaña de la Unión Europea, suceso denominado Brexit y realiza una comparación con el rol de los imperios, así como su relación con la riqueza de un país. Bastos con distintas referencias históricas, analiza qué sucede con un país al […]

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 […]

A common dispute among liberal thinkers is the question, is government really inevitable? Randall Holcombe, professor of Economics at Florida State University explains the possibility of having libertarian anarchy. Holcombe says, a number of important libertarians throughout time have defended that government does have a role in protecting our liberty and rights; on the other […]

In this interview, Fatimah Azzahra explains the concept of FR-EE City, a design prototype for cities in the world that will adapt to new migration patterns, while embracing the functional structure of free trade zones and startup cities. The urban design method involves large infrastructure frameworks set on a basic, reproducible template that will adjust […]

Miguel Lamas Pardo, ingeniero naval, presenta una propuesta que desarrolló como trabajo de tesis doctoral sobre la posibilidad de desarrollar ciudades autónomas en los océanos, dada la capacidad que tienen éstos de proveer gran variedad de recursos naturales y de otra índole; así como de ser escenarios para desarrollar una amplia gama de actividades. Explica […]

Wayne Leighton comenta los capítulos 8, 9, 10 y 11 de la obra The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves en donde Matt Ridley habla de la invención en sí misma y de sus efectos para el desarrollo humano, del equilibrio en la economía; explica acerca del surgimiento de las ideas e incremento del conocimiento a […]