glyph 456: Jesús Huerta de Soto ... history of economic thought ... Spain, Austria, economics, Complutense University . Spanish scholastics, Salamanca, Vienna, Murray N. Rothbard, Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson ... Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, F. A. Hayek ... Joaquín Rieg ... Human Action ... King Juan Carlos ... Dominicans, Jesuits, Catholic Church, Opus Dei, Pope John Paul II ... origins of the Austrian School, subjective value theory, paradox of value . monetary theory ,,, Adam Smith vs. subjective value theory ... Bruno Leoni, Cicero, Roman law ... Diego de Covarrubias y Leyva, Martin Azpilcueta Navarro, Luis Saravia de la Calle, Jaime Balme
Interview published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute, in "The Austrian Economics Newsletter," Summer 1997, Volume 17, Number 2
http://mises.org/journals/aen/AEN17_2_1.asp
Huerta de Soto discusses these topics:
- Plans to publish Collected Works of Ludwig von Mises
- Spain the birthplace of the Austrian School
- Path from Spain to Austria
- University of Salamanca, 16th century origins of subjective value theory
- Salamancan monetary theory, opposition to fractional reserve banking
- Carl Menger took up Catholic tradition of Spanish scholastic thought
- Joaquín Reig's Spanish translation of Human Action, 1960
- Joaquín and Luis Reig's weekly seminars on Austrian economics
- Complutense University, founded 1293, 100,000 students
- de Soto's course, Human Action the textbook, 2,000 students
- Synthesis: Mises: rationalism; Rothbard: natural law; Hayek: evolutionary
- Banking: 100% reserve ratio, old Spanish law on fungible demand deposits
- Rothbard on Spain, Franco, Republicans, Anarchists
- Jaime Balmes, "The True Idea of Value ...", 1844
- Progress of classical liberalism in Spain
- Keynes and the life insurance business
- King Juan Carlos holding a book by Mises
- Opus Dei and the Austrian School
- Pope John Paul II and the Austrian School
- Two economists among the scholastics became saints
- Let's hope they will not be the last
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January 12, 2009; edited/updated November 26, 2015