Huerta de Soto is a professor of Political Economy at the Complutense and Rey Juan Carlos universities of Madrid. At the Madrid university, he is also founder and director of the Official Master’s Degree in Economics from the Austrian School.
The video in which Huerta de Soto praises the President during a lecture was released on Saturday. “A disciple of a servant, who has been one of the reasons for greatest joy in my life, Against my recommendation, I already say it in my articles, don’t destroy your life dedicating himself to politics and has dedicated himself”, he began in his speech.
“By chance of fate, the hand of God, he has ended up as president of the Argentine Republic. He has sacrificed his life. They don’t know what it means to dedicate themselves to politics and even more so in a country like Argentina, it’s not that it’s especially bad, it’s like Spain, it’s destroying life,” he highlighted.
“He is going to immolate himself in that. I don’t know what will happen with Milei and her program in Argentina. I only know two things: we already owe him something of immense value for humanity and that is having brought terms such as anarcho-capitalism to the agenda and made popular the idea of freedom, and awakening citizens from their lethargy,” he remarked. , excited.
“How many are now saying: ‘I didn’t know it, now that I hear it I realize what I am, an anarcho-capitalist.’ It doesn’t matter what happens in Argentina, although I wish it to be very successful.but what Milei has achieved has immense value,” said Huerta Soto.
“I’ve been repeating the same things for 40 years and now it has a universal echo. Good for Milei. And two, if it turns out well to moderately well… Look at how it is organized,” he celebrated with a smile.
“It would be to give the Nobel Prize in Economics to Israel Kirzner as the greatest living representative of the Austrian School of Economics, and to President Javier Milei as someone capable of putting that ideology into practice.”
J.Avier Milei responded to him on social networks
“Thank you very much PROFESSOR Jesús Huerta de Soto. Long live freedom, damn“Milei wrote next to the video on her social networks.
Javier Milei had already expressed his admiration for Huerta de Soto previously. In his speech with his back to Congress, the Argentine president cited the Spanish professor and economist: “As the great Jesús Huerta de Soto says, anti-poverty plans generate more poverty, the only way to get out of poverty is with more freedom.”
Then, the professor thanked the president “enormously” for the mention in his first speech.
Source: Ambito