Raúl inmigró desde Puerto Rico a Nueva York durante su niñez, cuando sus padres salieron huyéndole a la situación económica de una isla víctima de podredumbre política. Nunca se imaginó que el mundo cambiaria de tal forma, que cuando intentó regresar a cumplir una promesa, se vio obligado a tomar actos desesperantes en su intento de regresar. Esa lucha por pisar la tierra que lo vio nacer habría de definir más de un destino en un mundo donde todo era tan impredecible que hasta el medio amb...

Look at Me, I Still Exist! is an intimate and honest book in which the author reconstructs the life of his mother, Marina Ramos Santiago (1956-2024), to restore her voice and presence. In these pages, you will discover a complex and deeply human woman: her virtues, her flaws, her fears, and her courage in the face of cancer. You will also accompany the author through the painful process of watching her fade day after day, as he tries to hold her and understand her. This work is an invitati...

Lives: Stories and Thoughts is a captivating collection that explores a spectrum of tales, spanning from the palpable to the ethereal. Its focal point resides in the lives of ordinary individuals residing in a Puerto Rican neighborhood, although one could argue that these narratives could unfold in any corner of Hispanic America. Within these pages, the struggles of poverty and the profound significance of familial ties intricately shape the existence of its inhabitants.Th...

Produced throughout the first fifteen years of Hayek's career, the writings collected in Capital and Interest see Hayek elaborate upon and extend his landmark lectures that were published as Prices and Production and work toward the technically sophisticated line of thought seen in his later Pure Theory of Capital. Illuminating the development of Hayek's detailed contributions to capital and interest theory, the collection also sheds light on how Hayek's work rel...

A new edition of F. A. Hayek's three-part opus Law, Legislation, and Liberty, collated in a single volumeIn this critical entry in the University of Chicago's Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series, political philosopher Jeremy Shearmur collates Hayek's three-part study of law and liberty and places Hayek's writings in careful historical context. Incisive and unrestrained, Law, Legislation, and Liberty is Hayek at his late-life best, making it essen...

The following two audio clips are from Friedrich August von Hayek (May 8, 1899 - March 23, 1992), who was an Austrian-British economist and political philosopher. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal for work on money and economic fluctuations, and how prices communicate information. His seminal work, "The Road to Serfdom," has been republished many times over the eight decades since its original publication.

Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason is a series of fascinating essays on the study of social phenomena. How to best and most accurately study social interactions has long been debated intensely, and there are two main approaches: the positivists, who ignore intent and belief and draw on methods based in the sciences; and the nonpositivists, who argue that opinions and ideas drive action and are central to understanding social behavior. F. A. Hayek's opposition to the positi...

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTSEDITOR'S INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTIONTHE MONETARY POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES AFTER THE RECOVERY FROM THE 1920 CRISIS (1925)SOME REMARKS ON THE PROBLEM OF IMPUTATION (1926)ON THE PROBLEM OF THE THEORY OF INTEREST (1927)INTERTEMPORAL PRICE EQUILIBRIUM AND MOVEMENTS IN THE VALUE OF MONEY (1928)THE FATE OF THE GOLD STANDARD (1932)CAPITAL CONSUMPTION (1932)ON 'NEUTRAL MONEY' (1933)

The Pure Theory of Capital, F. A. Hayek's long-overlooked, little-understood volume, was his most detailed work in economic theory. Originally published in 1941 when fashionable economic thought had shifted to John Maynard Keynes, Hayek's manifesto of capital theory is now available again for today's students and economists to discover.With a new introduction by Hayek expert Lawrence H. White, who firmly situates the book not only in historical and theoretical context but w...

In addition to his groundbreaking contributions to pure economic theory, F. A. Hayek also closely examined the ways in which the knowledge of many individual market participants could culminate in an overall order of economic activity. His attempts to come to terms with the “knowledge problem” thread through his career and comprise the writings collected in the fifteenth volume of the University of Chicago Press’s Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series.The Market and Other Orders...

"Empty Jars" is an artfully constructed collection of short stories that explores the vast landscape of human emotion and experience. This book navigates through joy, tragedy, hope, and a blend of the strange and terrifying, embodying an eloquent synthesis of science fiction, supernatural horror, and tales of love and grief. Each story is a unique vessel, inviting readers into a diverse world of imagination and profound insight. The book offers a tantalizing array of narratives, from the b...

Published originally in 1929, Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle is the first essay Friedrich A. Hayek wrote. It serves as a primer into Hayek's monetary and capital theories.