In this lecture Albert Loan shares a historical context of ideas regarding the source of social order, to frame and introduce what holacracy is, an idea that’s been around for years and which insights and efforts can be beneficial in the scientific community, education and even business; in his opinion holacracy can be the next […]

Based on a paper titled Why Do Government Officials Believe in Goodness of Bad Policy?, Daniel Klein talks about bad policies that prevail and persist throughout time even though most economists agree are bad. He discusses one of the possible answers, which is cynicism and villainy usually described as “rent seeking”. On the other hand, […]

John Tooby in this lecture talks about how sciences are unifying, especially psychology and economics. He describes the concept of entropy – the second law of thermodynamics – and the few processes that can push things uphill out of random chaos into useful order and functional organization: Natural selection Markets Intelligent design He argues that […]

Charlotta Stern, who makes research on social networks and defines herself as an empirical sociologist, gives an introduction to some of the most important classical liberal sociologists: Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau y William Graham Sumner and explains the current situation of classical liberal sociology ideas.  Stern talks about the situation today of sociology, and shows […]

Leda Cosmides and John Tooby share some ideas on natural selection and their findings on the research they have done on evolutionary psychology in relation with economics and Adam Smith’s ideas. John reflects on the function of emotions in human nature, how our ancestors would act in their societies, where life was dependent on being […]

Patrik Schumacher, director of Zaha Hadid Architects shares his ideas on the contribution of architecture to the progress of freedom, which in his opinion is one way to think about societal progress. He says, this contribution takes several forms, such as the free-flowing space of modernism, the freedom afforded by the indifference of the grid, […]

The economist and professor Richard Ebeling shares in this video why capitalism properly understood, drives innovation, production, improvement in qualities and rises the standard of living. He clarifies the wrong assumptions about this condemned system, because in reality it produces wealth that we enjoy and take for granted, and it is crony capitalism that favors […]

Álvaro Fischer presenta una interesante discusión sobre la disrupción que provocó la teoría de la evolución de Charles Darwin en el pensamiento universal. La comprensión del mundo se basaba en la idea de un creador, más tarde la ciencia giraba en torno al paradigma de la física clásica, ejemplificada por Newton, cuya influencia llegó hacia […]

Israel Briseño, doctor en Economía, ofrece en esta conferencia una solución a la racionalidad limitada del individuo y a las fallas del mercado, con la intervención de un Estado participativo. Explica que debido a la implementación de las ciencias exactas y la matematización en la Economía, se ha olvidado estudiar el comportamiento real de las […]

El pensamiento económico se ha venido construyendo a lo largo de los siglos con las ideas de autores y escuelas que le han dado sus aportes, Adrián Ravier en un recorrido histórico explica las tres etapas de desarrollo en donde la Escuela Austriaca de Economía ocupa un lugar importante. El trayecto está divido en tres […]

The professor Anna Ebeling analyzes the French Revolution, its causes and the consequences found in modern-day policies and economy. According to Ebeling, the French Revolution is an absolute perfect example of mercantilism, which is a economic system where the Government regulates the market with a set of restrictions that controls exports, imports and production itself. […]

Samuel Gregg shares during this interview his work and how he became the director of research at the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids. He starts by revealing what got him interested in natural law, economics and pursuing Ph.D. studies. Gregg exposes how Aristotle, Cicero, Adam Smith, and Michael Novak have influenced his work and, in […]