Yaron Brook, director of the Ayn Rand Institute, explains why Capitalism and Free Markets work. Brook starts his presentation talking about Hong Kong and its economic model, contrasting their successful story to Greek crisis. He also suggests how through capitalism, current economic problems such as the debt crisis, the imminent inflation, anti-business regulations can be […]

Yaron Brook discusses foreign policy, addressing the issue from the objectivist point of view of Ayn Rand, and explains that the role of governments should be to protect the rights of individual citizens from the use of force and to arbitrate disputes. He evaluates the role of military forces abroad and the fallacy of exporting […]

Yaron Brook talks about the current moral codes of society, the debate surrounding objectivism and capitalism and advocates to implement changes in society in order to end the dislike towards the notions of these philosophical and economic systems. He believes education, as well as a cultural shift, are keys to instruct people on what the […]

Yaron Brook shares with students Ayn Rand´s perspective on law and the common government intervention towards this regard. According to Rand’s thinking, the real purpose of law is to protect liberty and the individual, hence rejecting the notion of these two, law and government, joined in the pursuit of a societal good. He discusses several […]

While conversing with Luis Figueroa, Yaron Brook explains the true concept of self-interest, according to Ayn Rand’s philosophy, listing the virtues that define it, such as rationality, honesty, integrity, pride, and productiveness, which all together lead to human flourishing. He argues that contrary to what detractors claim, taking care of oneself can only lead to […]

George Reissman, an advocate of objectivism and laissez-faire, was awarded an honorary doctoral degree in economics by Universidad Francisco Marroquín (UFM), in recognition of his dissemination of capitalism. He shares how his academic growth was aided by extraordinary teachers, such as Ayn Rand and Ludwig von Mises. During his discourse, he reasserts the importance of […]

Warren Orbaugh en la sesión 5 de análisis del libro The Capitalist Manifesto de Andrew Bernstein, explica el capítulo 8 basado en los principios racionales filosóficos que validan el sistema capitalista: el egoísmo, la mente humana, la productividad como virtud moral; la vida, que es el estándar de valor y los derechos individuales, como la […]

Warren Orbaugh, en esta cuarta sesión de análisis del libro The Capitalist Manifesto de Andrew Bernstein, habla sobre la parte filosófica del capitalismo que resume en tres respuestas: la fuente de los valores que promueven la vida, que el hombre puede entender como buenos o malos; quién se beneficia de las acciones de esos valores, […]

Pablo Andrés (Paul Andreas) Wunderlich comparte la experiencia de ser médico y escritor, la cual le ha permitido enriquecer sus historias y personajes, explorar su yo interior y satisfacción de poder combinar la ciencia y la literatura. También, habla de su reciente obra Despondency historia que se desarrolla en la Antigua Guatemala, que según sus […]

Warren Orbaugh expone sobre la filosofía del capitalismo, sistema social que se basa en el reconocimiento de los derechos individuales y derechos de propiedad privada, sintetizados por Thomas Jefferson; refiere que para los fines de la presentación, es importante tomar en consideración los siguientes puntos de la misma: que hay verdades que son evidentes, que […]

A discussion forum between Peter Boettke and academics from Universidad Francisco Marroquín is conducted, in which Boettke elaborates on different ideas related to social cooperation, viewed from an Austrian economics perspective. Ideas such as preconditions, required in order to have social cooperation and division of labor. He also illustrates on how economics is implied in […]

José Antonio Romero, con motivo de celebrar los 130 años del nacimiento de Ludwig von Mises, habla sobre los aportes que este autor dio a la Economía, entre los que menciona, la formulación de la teoría del cálculo económico con el que explicaba el desastre del sistema marxista y del socialismo en general; el efecto […]