Libertad Educativa

Education and alleged market imperfections

Fecha
Expositor / Institución
Dr. Alberto Benegas Lynch (h.), Dr. Martín Krause, Dr. Edgardo Zablotsky

To conclude the 2022 cycle of Educational Freedom Seminars, we invite you to a panel with Dr. Alberto Benegas Lynch (h.), Dr. Martín Krause and Dr. Edgardo Zablotsky, who will discuss the principal current challenges related to education and economy.

Speaker
Dr. Alberto Benegas Lynch (h.)

Doctor in Economics (UCA) and Doctor in Management Sciences (UADE). He is President of the Economic Sciences Section of the National Academy of Sciences of Buenos Aires and is member of the National Academy of Economic Sciences. He is corresponding academic of the National Academy of Economics of Uruguay, member of the Scientific Committee of Market Processes. European Journal of Political Economy in Madrid and member of the Advisory Board in Advances in Austrian Economics in New York. He is author of twenty-eight books, besides another ten in collaboration and four as co-author. He was tenured professor through competition at the University of Buenos Aires and he taught in five university careers: Economic Sciences, Law, Engineering, Sociology and in the Department of History of Philosophy and Letters. He was full professor of the subject The Austrian School as an alternative paradigm in economics in the doctorate of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the UCA and Director of the Doctorate Department of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the National University of La Plata and, during 23 years, president of ESEADE where he is Professor Emeritus. He was economic advisor of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, The Argentine Chamber of Commerce, the Argentine Rural Society and of the Inter-American Council of Commerce and Production. He was twice Member of the Board of Mont Pelerin Society, is member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs (London), is Academic Associate of Cato Institute (Washington DC) and of Ludwig von Mises Institute (Auburn), member of the Institute of Methodology of the Social Sciences of the National Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in Buenos Aires and received honorary degrees from universities in his country and abroad. He is President of the Academic Council of the Freedom and Progress Foundation (Fundación Libertad y Progreso) in Argentina and President of the Editorial Board of the Argentine subsidiary of Unión Editorial of Madrid.

Speaker
Dr. Martín Krause

he is is Ph.D. in Administration from the Catholic University of La Plata, Argentina. He is full professor of Economics at the Faculty of Law of the UBA and of Economic History at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the same university. He is visiting professor at the Francisco Marroquin University and the OMMA-Ayau in Madrid. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, researcher at the Cato Institute, member of the Academic Council of the Freedom and Progress Foundation and professor at UCEMA. He has received numerous honors such as the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships and the Freedom Project of the John Templeton Foundation. Has published several books such as Borges y la Economía (Madrid: Unión Editorial, 2021); El Foro y el Bazar (UFM, 2014); Economía, Instituciones y Políticas Públicas (La Ley, 2011); Elementos de Economía Política (La Ley, 2007, with Adrián Ravier and Gabriel Zanotti.

Speaker
Dr. Edgardo Zablotsky

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Chicago 1992. He is a full member of the National Academy of Education, and holds the positions of Professor and and President of the Universidad del CEMA. Dr. Zablotsky is Member of the Mont Pelerin Society, of the Academic Council of the Freedom and Progress Foundation and also of the Atlas Foundation (Argentina) and of the Advisory Council of Acton Institute (Argentina). His interest is focused on two fields of research: non-welfare philanthropy and public policies carried out in the educational area in our country.