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organized a lecture given on September 28, 2009 in Bratislava within

Conservative Economic Quarterly Lecture Series /CEQLS/

by

Jesús Huerta de Soto
Professor of Political Economy at
the King Juan Carlos University of Madrid

The Financial Crisis
and the Economic Recession

Hosted by:
Peter Gonda, the Conservative Institute chief economist

Jesús Huerta de Soto: CEQLS Lecture for the Conservative Institute, Bratislava, September 28, 2009

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About Jesús Huerta de Soto:

Prof. Jesús Huerta de Soto is Ph. D. in Economic Science and Ph. D. in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid (Summa Cum Laude and Extraordinary Awards). He is also a mathematical actuary and holds a Stanford M.B.A. He is member of the Mont Pèlerin Society, of the Royal Economic Society of London, the American Economic Association and the Spanish, Portuguese and Swiss Associations of Actuaries. He was awarded the King Juan Carlos International Prize for Economics (Madrid, 1983), the Adam Smith Award (Brussels, 2005) and the Franz Cuhel Memorial Prize for Excellence in Economic Education (Prague, 2006). Since 2000, he has been Professor of Political Economy at the King Juan Carlos University of Madrid. Huerta de Soto is currently considered as one of the most representative exponents of the Austrian School of Economics.

He has published numerous research works and articles on subjects related to his speciality, among which his books:

- Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles (Mises Institute, 2006, 2009)
- Planes de Pensiones Privados (1984, 2005)
- Lecturas de Economía Política - 3 volumes (1986-1987, 2005)
- Socialismo, cálculo económico y función empresarial (1992, 2000, 2005. English edition forthcoming)
- Estudios de Economía Política (1994, 2005)
- La Escuela Austriaca: mercado y creatividad empresarial (Spanish (2000), Italian (2003), Portuguese (2005), German (2007), Russian (2007), French (2008) and English (2008) editions)

In English his most important articles are:

- Entrepreneurship and the Economic Analysis of Socialism (in New Perspectives on Austrian Economics, Gerrit Meijer (ed.), Routledge, 1995)
- A Theory of Liberal Nationalism (Il Politico, nº 4, 1995)
- The Crisis and Reform of Social Security (Journal des Economistes, vol. 5, no. 1, 1994)
- A Critical Analysis of Central Banks and Fractional Reserve Free Banking (The Review of Austrian Economics, vol. 8, no. 2, 1995)
- New Light on the Prehistory of the Theory of Banking and the School of Salamanca (The Review of Austrian Economics, vol. 9, no. 2, 1996)
- A Critical Note on Fractional-Reserve Free Banking (The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, vol. 1, no. 4, 1998)
- The Ongoing Methodenstreit of the Austrian School (Journal des Economistes, vol. 8, no. 1, 1998)
- Juan de Mariana: The Influence of the Spanish Scholastics (in 15 Great Austrian Economists, Ludwig von Mises Institute (ed.), 1999)
- The Ethics of Capitalism(Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 2, no. 2, 1999)

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