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Jesús Huerta de Soto

Austrian School
Jesús Huerta de Soto
Birth	December 23, 1956 (1956-12-23) (age 53)
Nationality	Spain
Field	Political economics
Influences	Ludwig von Mises, Carl Menger, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard, Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson
Awards	Adam Smith Award

Jesús Huerta de Soto Ballester (born December 23, 1956, in Madrid) is an Austrian School economist and Professor of Political Economy at Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, Spain. In 2005 Huerta de Soto received the CNE's Adam Smith Award for lifetime achievement.^[1]; and in 2009 he was awarded a honorary degree from Universidad Francisco Marroquin.

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")

See also

• Fractional-reserve banking
• Full-reserve banking

References

External links

• 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.)