Venezuela ha caído en las garras del socialismo afirma el periodista José Carlos Rodríguez, quién desde la perspectiva de Henry Hazlitt, hace un análisis de la situación política y económica en la que se encuentra ese país. Explica que para poder comprender lo que sucede en Venezuela, es necesario hablar de su trayectoria a partir […]

Bertrand De Jouvenel fue miembro destacado de la sociedad Mont Pelerin, agrupación que surgió con el objetivo reunir a pensadores liberales clásicos del siglo XX. Gabriele Ciampini analiza el trabajo y pensamiento económico de este personaje. Ciampini comparte una breve biografía de Jouvenel así como los escritos desarrollados por el economista, que han sido objeto […]

Gerard O’Driscoll, named honorary professor and awarded an honorary doctoral degree by UFM, highlights the importance of the book Road to Serfdom written by Friedrich Hayek and presents why collectivism doesn’t work during his speech in the ceremony for honor graduates of the November 2018 commencement. The fundamental problem of any kind of collectivism decisions is […]

El connotado Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa, estuvo de visita en esta casa de estudios presentando su reciente obra La llamada de la tribu, una autobiografía que revela mucho de su vida intelectual. Mario Vargas Llosa, como liberal comprometido con las ideas y doctrinas que la representan, dedicó su libro a siete pensadores liberales […]

Los grupos terroristas alrededor del mundo persiguen la destrucción de un orden ya establecido, intimidando a la sociedad y a los políticos, ¿Pero porqué estas organizaciones son funcionales? Edwar Escalante analiza la economía del terrorismo en Perú y la relación con el monopolio que posee el Gobierno ante la seguridad, así como la justicia. Escalante […]

El arquitecto Enrique Ramírez presenta conceptos filosóficos de Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Thomas Jefferson y otros exponentes de las ideas de la libertad, por medio de imágenes sobre metáforas del capitalismo. Cuenta que sus experimentos visuales comenzaron cuando inició su amistad con el exrector de esta casa de estudios, Giancarlo […]

What would you do if the right to use water was taken away from you? Randy Simmons presents the history of water property rights in the United States and relates it to the government, political issues and regulations. He starts sharing how people faced the problem of moving from one place to another and the […]

Richard Ebeling introduces the lecture with the central banking and its functions. He also explains some individuals made some criticism against it, also proposed other ideas such as a system of market-based money and a private competitive banking system to replace the central banking. A lot of times people will say that deficit expanded by […]

Richard Ebeling in this session explains the causes and the consequences of the economic crisis of 1930 in the United States. Also, the Keynesian arguments about the crisis and the critics that the Austrian School of Economics gave to that theory. Richard presents the historical context of what happened in the USA before the crisis, […]

In this session, Richard Ebeling talks about the different schools of economics and their views about the economic policy since World War I and after World War II. First, he mentions some historical events and political ideologies such as World War I, the totalitarian collectivism, communism, fascism, and nazism that were an influence for the […]

Alejandro Jenkins, theoretical physicist, analyzes business cycles from a microeconomic point of view by making analogies between physics theorems and the business cycle theories from the Austrian and the Neoclassical economics. Jenkins studies the four known responses of the Great Depression, by Hayek, Keynes, Schumpeter, and Fisher.  Also, he explains the famous Arrow-Debreu welfare theorems, […]

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 […]