Who Pays Wealth Tax: the Rich or the Poor?
The Spanish government’s announcement that it plans to introduce a new “solidarity tax” on the wealth of those who possess over three million euros…
Speech at Presentation of the Documentary “Neither Social nor Justice: The Pension Crisis”
Rafael del Pino Foundation (Monday, November 29, 2021, 6:30 pm) [A literal transcription of the words spoken by] Jesús Huerta de Soto My speech…
A Review of the Book Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die By Tom Gallagher
(London: Hurst & Company, 2020, 350 pages) By Jesús Huerta de Soto I was a small child when I first heard Salazar, the Portuguese…
Economic Effects Of Pandemics
(An Austrian Analysis) BY JESÚS HUERTA DE SOTO (Draft written between December 26, 2020 and January 27, 2021) Introduction: Recurrent Cycles of Boom and…
The Deadliest Virus
The deadliest virus is the institutionalized coercion which lies in the very DNA of the state and may even initially permit a government to…
Prof. Huerta de Soto’s seminal course in the Austrian School translated into English
Prof. Huerta de Soto would like to dedicate his university lectures to all the members, followers and friends of the Cobden Centre. These lectures…
The Japanization of the European Union
The Japanization of the European Union[1] Introduction The topic of my lecture today is “The Japanization of the European Union.” I…
Economic Thought in Ancient Greece
The intellectual odyssey that laid the foundations for Western civilization began in classical Greece. Unfortunately, Greek thinkers failed in their attempt to grasp the…
Are Economic Crises Inherent to Market Economies?
It is interesting to note that Marx, in his analysis of the capitalist economic system, basically concentrates on the study of the imbalances and…
Anti-Deflationist Paranoia
[Transcript of the closing speech at the Seventh Spanish Conference on Austrian Economics. These remarks were delivered Thursday, June 12, 2014 in Madrid.] Today…