Philipp Bagus

Philipp Bagus (ES/D) is a native of Germany. He earned his M.A. at the University of Münster (D) and his Ph.D. in economics at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid (ES), where he is currently teaching. Prof. Bagus specializes in Austrian Economics, focusing on monetary and business cycle theory. He is co-editor of a ‘Procesos de Mercado-Revista Europea de Economia Politica’ and Chairman of the Board of Directors of ‘Elementum International’). He serves at the academic advisory board of the German Ludwig von Mises Institut, is a member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn (AL), and also works as an IREF scholar. In 2011 and 2017 respectively, his work was awarded the O.P. Alford III Prize in Libertarian Scholarship and in 2016 the Ludwig-Erhard-Förderpreis.

Bagus’s well over 60 scholarly essays have been published in internationally renowned academic journals, among them the Journal of Business Ethics, the Independent Review, or the American Journal of Economics and Sociology. He is also the author of several books including his highly acclaimed The Tragedy of the Euro (2010), that has been translated 14 languages, Deep Freeze: Island’s Economics Collapse (2011) or most recently his important Die Ära Milei (2024), the first comprehensive study of Argentina’s current president.