Seminars and Conferences

2024
Madrid, October 24, 2024

8th Annual Madrid Conference on Austrian Economics

Rey Juan Carlos University

  • Lecture: “The cultural war in economic science”
2023
Madrid, October 26, 2023

7th Annual Madrid Conference on Austrian Economics

Rey Juan Carlos University

  • Lecture: “A Few Autobiographical Thoughts”
2022
Madrid, October 27, 2022

6th Annual Madrid Conference on Austrian Economics

Rey Juan Carlos University

  • Lecture: “Anarchocapitalism versus Classical Liberalism”
2021
Madrid, October 28, 2021

5th Annual Madrid Conference on Austrian Economics

Rey Juan Carlos University

  • Lecture: “Economic Effects of Pandemics (An Austrian Analysis)”
2020
Madrid, November 19, 2020

4th Annual Madrid Conference on Austrian Economics

Rey Juan Carlos University

  • Lecture: “The Austrian School and the Spanish Scholastics: Lessons for Today and the Future”
2019
Madrid, November 7, 2019

3rd Annual Madrid Conference on Austrian Economics

Rey Juan Carlos University

  • Lecture: “The Japanisation of the European Union”
2019
Madrid, May 14, 2019

XII Austrian Economics Congress

Rey Juan Carlos University

  • Lecture: “The Japanisation of the European Union”
2018
Madrid, November 15, 2018

2nd Annual Madrid Conference on Austrian Economics

Rey Juan Carlos University

  • Lecture: “God and Anarchocapitalism”
2018
Gran Canaria, October 5, 2018

Mont Pelerin Society General Meeting

International Meeting

  • Lecture: “A Theory of Libertarian Nationalism”
2017
Madrid, November 2, 2017

Monetary Policy in the 21st Century. The Renaissance of Austrian Monetary Economics

Rey Juan Carlos University

  • Lecture: “Anti-Deflationist Paranoia”
2017
Madrid, May 17, 2017

X Austrian Economics Congress

Rafael del Pino Foundation

  • Lecture: “Anarchy, God and Pope Francis”
2016
Madrid, June 2, 2016

IX Austrian Economics Congress

Rafael del Pino Foundation

  • Lecture: “Freedom, politics and anarchy in 21st century Spain”
2015
Madrid, May 27, 2015

VIII Austrian Economics Congress

Rey Juan Carlos University Foundation

  • Lecture: “Mario Draghi’s fatal error”
2014
Kiel, Germany, October 31, 2014

Monetary Policy: Perspectives for the 21st Century

Kiel Institute for the World Economy

  • Lecture: “The Austrian Defense of the Euro with a Criticism of the Current Antideflationist Paranoia”
2014
Kiel (Germany), October 30, 2014

Paul Nortz Saal of Haus Weltclub

  • Lecture: “Economic Recessions, Banking Reform, and the Future of Capitalism”
2014
Kiel (Germany), October 30, 2014

Kiel Institute for the World Economy

  • Lecture: “The Essence of the Austrian School”
2014
Madrid, October 25, 2014

Regional Conference – Madrid 2014

European Students for Liberty

  • Lecture: “Liberalism vs Anarchocapitalism (with some recommendations for young lovers of freedom)”
2014
Pamplona, October 17, 2014

I Occidens Conference: The origins of modern economics. Martín de Azpilcueta

University of Navarra

  • Lecture: “Martín de Azpilcueta and the School of Salamanca (16th century), forerunners of the Austrian School (20th-21st centuries)”
2014
Madrid, June 12, 2014

VII Austrian Economics Congress

Rey Juan Carlos University Foundation

  • Lecture: “The antideflationist paranoia”
2014
Madrid, April 1-5, 2014

Atlantic Economic Association

  • Lecture: “In Defense of the Euro and the Current Antideflationist Paranoia”
2013
Madrid, May 23, 2013

VI Austrian Economics Congress

Rey Juan Carlos University Foundation

  • Lecture: “Lincoln and the European Union”
2012
Prague, September 3, 2012

International Meeting

The Mont Pelerin Society General Meeting

  • Lecture: “Economic Downturn and Socialist Reengineering”
2012
Madrid, June 20, 2012

V Austrian Economics Congress

Rey Juan Carlos University Foundation

  • Lecture: “Fraud. Why the Great Recession”
2011
Madrid, June 1, 2011

IV Austrian Economics Congress

Rey Juan Carlos University

  • Lecture: “Ethics and dynamic efficiency of the financial sector”
2010
Madrid, April 29, 2010

III Austrian Economics Congress

Rey Juan Carlos University

  • Lecture: “Reflections on the crisis”
2010

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Albacete, January 21, 2010

ESHET – European Society for the History of Economic Thought “The Recession of 2008: Do Economists ever agree on Analysis and Prescriptions”

UCLM – University of Castilla-La Mancha

  • Lecture: “A brief note on economic recessions, banking reform and the future of capitalism”
2009
Madrid, May 21, 2009

II Austrian Economics Congress

Rey Juan Carlos University

  • Lecture: “Ben Bernanke’s fatal error”
2008
Santiago de Compostela, March 28, 2008

I Austrian Economics Congress

University of Santiago de Compostela

  • Lecture: “Cantillon’s monetary theory”
2007
Vienna, March 26, 2007

Friedrich A. v. Hayek Institut

  • Lecture: “The Essence of the Austrian School”
  • Book presentation: Die Österreichische Schule der Nationalökonomie – Markt und unternehmerische Kreativität
2006
Salamanca, October 21, 2006

Hispanic thought in America: 16th-20th centuries

Pontifical University of Salamanca

  • Lecture: “The School of Salamanca and the economic thought of the Austrian School, between Spain and America”
2005
La Coruña, September 28-30, 2005

VII National Economics Congress

Member of the Scientific Committee

2003
Obergurgl (Austria), September 4-7, 2003

The Austrian School of Economics: History, Development, and its Impact on Individual Liberty

Liberty Fund Colloquium
International Meeting

2002
London, October 5-10, 2002

The Mont Pelerin Society

General Meeting
International Meeting

2001
Madrid, June 13, 2001

IV International Human Rights Award of the Hispano Cuban Foundation presented to Don Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas

Casa de América

  • Lecture: “Scholastics and Liberalism”
2001
Formentor, May 24-27, 2001

Liberalism and Catholicism

Liberty Fund Colloquium
International Meeting

2000
Santiago de Chile, November 12-17, 2000

The Mont Pelerin Society

General Meeting
Speaker together with James M. Buchanan and Bruno Frey on the topic “Direct vs. Indirect Democracy”

2000
May 17, 2000

Foundation for Social Studies and Analysis (F.A.E.S.)

University and Competition
Coordinator: Manuel Jesús González González

1999
Madrid, November 10, 1999

F.A. Hayek: one hundred years of intellectual history

Residencia de Estudiantes

  • Lecture: “New currents of the Austrian School at the end of the century”
1999
París, 24 de Septiembre de 1999

Centre de théorie économique Jean-Baptiste Say

Universite Paris-Dauphine

  • Ponencia: «The Contributions of the Spanish Scholastics as Precursors of Austrian Economics»
1999
Paris, September 24, 1999

Centre de théorie économique Jean-Baptiste Say

Université Paris-Dauphine

  • Lecture: “The Contributions of the Spanish Scholastics as Precursors of Austrian Economics”
1999
Madrid, May 25, 1999

Globalization and Financial Systems

Foundation for Social Studies and Analysis (F.A.E.S.)
Coordinator: Luis María Linde

1997
Barcelona, September 7-10, 1997

“Fifty Years of Liberalism in Europe”

The Mont Pèlerin Society Regional Meeting
Member of the Program Committee

  • Lecture presented: “Outlook of Liberalism in the next fifty years”
1997
April 4-6, 1997

The Austrian Scholars Conference

Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

  • Lecture presented: “The Spanish Roots of the Austrian School”
1997
Vienna, September 8-13, 1997

The Mont Pèlerin Society

General Meeting
By invitation of Gary S. Becker, speaker together with Erich Streissler, Sherwin Rosen and Leland B. Yeager on the topic “The Methodenstreit: The Austrian vs. Neo-Classical Approaches to Economics”

1996
Ávila, November 28, 29 and 30, 1996

5th Regional Economics Congress of Castilla y León

  • Lecture presented: “The Methodenstreit, or the Austrian approach versus the neoclassical approach in economics”.
1995
Valencia, October 23-27, 1995

III Iberoamerican Liberal Conference

“Liberalism and Education: Tribute to Salvador de Madariaga”

  • Lecture presented: “The Liberal Economist and Politics”.
1995
August 28 to September 2, 1995

Dix Huitième Université d’Été de la Nouvelle Économie

University of Aix-en-Provence

  • Lecture presented: “How to Manage the Process of Reforming the Social Security”
1994
Cannes, France, September 25-30, 1994

“The Legacy of Hayek” – Mont-Pèlerin Society General Meeting

International Congress dedicated to evaluating the scientific work of Hayek and attended by more than 300 professors from around the world, including Nobel Prize winners in Economics James Buchanan, Ronald Coase and Gary Becker

1994
Madrid, October 4-6, 1994

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

World Bank Group
Annual Meetings
International Congress

1994
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, February 11-12, 1994

Public Economics Researchers Meeting

“María Cristina” Royal University College
National Congress

1994
Madrid, June 18-20, 1994

XXX International Insurance Seminar

Organizer: International Insurance Society
International Congress
Participation as “Academic Moderator”

1993
Madrid, November 22-25, 1993

VII Centenary National Forum

Complutense University of Madrid
Present and Future of the Spanish Economy
National Congress

  • Lecture: “The entrepreneurial function”
1993
Rio de Janeiro, September 5-8, 1993

Mont Pèlerin Society – Regional Meeting

International Congress

  • Lecture: “Economic Analysis of Social Security”
1992
April 9-10, 1992

European Conference on Austrian Economics

“History and Relevance of the Austrian School of Economics”
University of Maastricht
International Congress

  • Lecture: “Economic Analysis of Socialism”
1990
Seville, June 22-24, 1990

“Property Rights: Environment and Zoning”

Liberty Fund Colloquium
International Meeting
Director-organizer: Prof. Pedro Schwartz Girón

1988
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, October 30-31, 1988

“Economic Calculation and Economic Planning”

Liberty Fund Colloquium
“María Cristina” Royal University College
International Meeting
Director-organizer of the meeting: Jesús Huerta de Soto

1988
Aix-en-Provence, September 9-14, 1988

Huitième Université d’Été de la Nouvelle Économie

International Meeting

  • Lecture: “Market Ecology”
1988
Helsinki, Finland, July 8-14, 1988

XXIII International Congress of Actuaries

International Congress

  • Lecture: “Crisis of Social Security and the Role of Private Pension Plans in its Reform”
1988
Bordeaux, May 20-23, 1988

“Liberty in Montesquieu and Hume”

Liberty Fund Colloquium
International Meeting

  • Communication: “Conjectural history, economic theory and social ethics”
1987
Knokke, Belgium, May 15-18, 1987

“Human Nature and Liberty”

Liberty Fund Colloquium
International Meeting

1986
Saint Vincent, Aosta, Italy, September 1-6, 1986

Mont Pèlerin Society

General Meeting
International Congress

1985
Aix-en-Provence, September 5-8, 1985

“Natural Resources and Political Economy”

Liberty Fund Colloquium
International Meeting

  • Lecture: “Market ecology”
1984
Paris, February 29 to March 3, 1984

Mont Pèlerin Society

Regional Meeting
International Meeting

1984
Madrid, April 25-27, 1984

International Pension Funds Congress

International Pension Funds Association
International Congress

  • Lecture: “Interest, economic cycles and pension plans”
1982
Berlin, September 5-9, 1982

Mont Pèlerin Society

General Meeting
International Congress

1980
Stanford University, September 7-12, 1980

Mont Pèlerin Society

General Meeting
Hoover Institution
International Congress

1979
Madrid and Salamanca, September 2-7, 1979

Mont Pèlerin Society

Regional Meeting
International Congress

1978
Madrid, May 10-15, 1978

V World Congress of Insurance Law

International Insurance Law Association (AIDA)
International Congress