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 member of the Mont Pèlerin Society, of the Royal Economic Society of London and the American Economic Association. He was awarded the King Juan Carlos International Prize for Economics (Madrid, 1983), the Adam Smith Award (Brussels, 2005), the Franz Cuhel Memorial Prize for Excellence in Economic Education (Prague, 2006), the “Gary G. Schlarbaum Prize for Liberty” (Salamanca, 2009), and the Gold “Hayek-Medaille” (Göttingen, Germany, 2013), as well as Ph.D. Honorary Degrees by Francisco Marroquín University (Guatemala, 2009), Alexandru Ioan Cuzá (Romania, 2010) and Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (Moscow, 2011). 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, 2012), Socialism, Economic Calculation and Entrepreneurship (Edward Elgar 2010), The Austrian School: Market Order and Entrepreneurial Creativity (Edward Elgar 2008, 2010), and The Theory of Dynamic Efficiency (Routledge 2008, 2010).