The Cultural War in Economic Science

Tags: Austrian Economics Overview, Capitalism, Strategy

01/16/2025 Jesús Huerta de Soto

The challenge facing economic science is to counter the reactionary counterrevolution by states and governments that smother voluntary cooperation and free human interaction based on liberty. The chains must be thrown off in favor of the libertarian ideal of an anarchocapitalist system.

This audio essay is a narration of the keynote lecture by Jesús Huerta de Soto presented at the 8th Conference on Austrian Economics in Madrid on August 2, 2024.

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