The Foundation Jesús Huerta de Soto offers annually up to 10 research grants ranging from €10,000 to €20,000, aimed at supporting academic study of the principles underlying a free society. These grants are intended for researchers and students interested in economic and social analysis from the perspective of economic freedom as developed by the Austrian School of Economics, the spontaneous market order, and the critical examination of statism and anarcho-capitalist theory.
The purpose of this call is to support and enable research and academic activities that contribute to the scientific advancement of anarcho-capitalism from the perspective of the Austrian School of Economics and its leading authors, generating scientific results of high academic impact. Although it is currently impossible to know the specific solutions that entrepreneurial creativity would produce in an environment of complete freedom, these grants are intended to promote research that analyzes specific areas of social life currently subject to state intervention, in order to explore how they could develop in a framework entirely based on individual liberty and the absence of institutional coercion, that is, in an anarcho-capitalist society, with particular emphasis on the analysis of the most appropriate democratic transition toward processes of fully voluntary social cooperation.
The funded research must be conducted from the perspective of Austrian School economic analysis and, in particular, drawing on authors such as the Spanish Scholastics, C. Menger, E. von Böhm-Bawerk, L. von Mises, F. A. Hayek, M. N. Rothbard, I. M. Kirzner, A. Benegas Lynch (h), Walter Block, H. H. Hoppe, J. Salerno, J. Huerta de Soto, P. Boettke, and J. G. Hülsmann, among others.
Call for applications
Until 30 April 2026, 20:00 (Madrid)
Information on application criteria and possible research topics can be found at Research Grants – Fundación Jesús Huerta de Soto Ballester