The professor of economics, Sandford Ikeda, will explain the nature and significance of cities, emphasizing the messiness of them and why this is necessary to function and be economically valuable.  Ikeda based his work in the urbanist Jane Jacobs, one of the most important thinkers in cities and economics. He says that cities may be […]

Warren Orbaugh habla de la benevolencia del egoísmo, una virtud criticada por los enemigos del capitalismo porque generalmente se piensa que es mejor preocuparse de los demás que del propio interés personal, sin considerar que el hombre debe buscar todo aquello que fomenta la vida y le ayuda a ser feliz. La vida, afirma Warren, […]

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 […]

How does a constitution of liberty as described by Friedrich A. Hayek, becomes a constitution of social control? In this lecture, Glenn Furton talks about the ideas of several economists about emergent politics and political exchange. For Buchanan and Tullock in 1962, this was called political catallaxy and these tools explained an unplanned order of […]

Luis Espinosa plantea el problema del cálculo en el sistema socialista y la incapacidad del organismo central de controlar la economía de manera eficiente a través del PIB, por falta de información en ambos casos. Este debate refiere Luis que ha quedado relegado desde hace un siglo en la historia del pensamiento económico, no sólo […]

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, […]

Aparicio Caicedo estuvo de visita en la UFM compartiendo algunos contenidos de su obra Noche larga no liberal: realidad detrás del mito populista una revelación sobre la verdadera historia de Ecuador, que según la población debía sus males a la libertad económica de los años 90, por haber traído el caos y dejar en pobreza […]

Gabriel Zanotti plantea la importancia de conocer la historia y principios de la Escuela Austriaca de Economía, así como a sus autores, quienes han dado valiosos aportes a través de cuantiosas publicaciones. Menciona Gabriel que entre los grandes exponentes que dieron el primer paso de dicha Escuela está Carl Menger quien con base en elementos […]

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, the professor Ebeling presents the Austrian Business […]

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 shares the Austrian Capital Theory, its […]

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 […]

The economist Richard Ebeling belies one of the great myths about the capitalist system, which is the presumption that businessmen make profits at the expense of consumers and workers in society. He explains how in reality, entrepreneurs only can earn profit by satisfying the consumers’ wants. What enables this system to be guided by our […]