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Dr. Christian Niemietz hat in Berlin an der Humboldt Universität Wirtschaftswissenschaften studiert. Es folgten Forschungsaufenthalte in der Zentralbank von Bolivien und in der Statistikbehörde von Paraguay. dr. Christian Niemietz promovierte am King’s College London und leitet die polit-ökonomische Abteilung in London am Institute of Economic Affairs.

Can free markets protect the environment better than government regulation? In this talk, Matt Ridley explains how property rights, innovation, and market incentives can deliver effective environmental protection while fostering prosperity. 

  How do you get from a distorted economy to a free market without the transition destroying the reform itself? The recent public clash between President Javier Milei and businessmen such as Paolo Rocca over a pipeline contract exposes a deeper question that every market-oriented government must eventually confront: How do you actually get from […]

Why free markets do not impoverish the poor Valeria Lucia Rios Sánchez Abstract The following essay analyzes one of the most controversial debates: the idea that the rich become richer at the expense of the poor. Drawing on the contributions of Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Israel Kirzner, the essay refutes this notion by […]

Who exploits whom? Spain’s welfare state and the return of zero-sum politics Andrés Ruiz Benito ABSTRACT Public debate increasingly frames inequality as a zero-sum process: “the poor get poorer because the rich get richer”. Proper economic theory rejects this inference for competitive markets, where voluntary exchange and entrepreneurship can expand output and allow gains to […]