The Spanish Scholastics

07/31/2014 Jesús Huerta de Soto

As part of the celebration of the fifth centenary of Diego de Covarrubias y Leyva, Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto reviewed the important legacy of the leading thinkers of the School of Salamanca, the Spanish intellectual forerunners of the Austrian School of Economics. The conference took place in the Cathedral of Segovia on 8 November 2013.

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