Jesús Huerta de Soto

Jesús Huerta de Soto Ballester (born 23 December 1956, in Madrid) is a leading Austrian School economist and Professor of Political Economy at Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, Spain. He received doctoral degrees in Law (1984) and Economic and Business Sciences (1992), both from Complutense University of Madrid, and an MBA from Stanford University. He has been a Professor of Political Economy at Complutense University of Madrid's Law School since 1979. In 1983, Huerta de Soto received the extraordinary Rey Juan Carlos Award in Economics, in 2005 the CNE's Adam Smith Award for lifetime achievement^[1] and in 2009 he was awarded a honorary degree from Universidad Francisco Marroquin.

Huerta de Soto is also an adjunct scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a member of Mont Pelerin Society's Board of Directors, of the Board of Trustees and the Scientific Council of the Foundation IMDEA Social Sciencies, and of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics' editorial board and director of the publication "Procesos de mercado: Revista Europea de Economía Política".

Books

• Planes de pensiones privados ("Private Pension Benefits")
• Lecturas de economía política ("Readings in Political Economy"), Huerta de Soto, ed.
• Socialismo, cálculo económico y función empresarial ("Socialism, Economic Calculation, and Entrepreneurship")
• Estudios de economía política ("Studies in Political Economy")
• Dinero, Crédito Bancario y Ciclos Económicos (Madrid: Unión Editorial, first Spanish edition 1998).
• Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles, translated by Melinda A. Stroup (Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute, first English edition 2006), xxix+876 pages, ISBN 0-945466-39-4. Also available as a PDF file.
• La escuela austríaca: mercado y creatividad empresarial ("The Austrian School: Market Process and Entrepreneurial Creativity")
• Nuevos estudios de economía política ("New Studies in Political Economy")
• The theory of dynamic efficiency

See also

• Fractional-reserve banking
• Full-reserve banking

References

External links

• Honorary Doctoral Degrees, Universidad Francisco Marroquín
• Huerta de Soto's website
• Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles (pdf)
• An Interview with Jesús Huerta de Soto in The Austrian Economics Newsletter. (Summer 1997; Volume 17, Number 2.)
• Audiovisual Media, NewMedia Universidad Francisco Marroquín
• Financial Crisis and Economic Recession
• Lecciones de Economía en la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid
• Huerta de Soto interviewed by GoldMoney Foundation