Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Master's Degree in Economics from the Austrian School

What knowledge will I acquire with this Master?

The Master in Economics of the Austrian School aims to provide students with the tools and methods of the Austrian School of Economics, as well as the knowledge to apply them to the analysis of economic problems. Over several months of training, the student will achieve a high degree of knowledge in the field of market processes, monetary economics, economic cycles, the evolutionary study of institutions, the analysis of interventionism and innovation processes. technological.

The program is made up of a core body of basic knowledge that will be the basis of an organized research period leading to the writing of a quality original work in one of the main areas covered by the Master.

The program is not only designed to provide students, national and foreign, with the necessary knowledge to carry out specialized research within Economics as a scientific discipline, but also aims to provide them with the necessary experience to develop their skills as economists. both in the public and private sectors (as entrepreneurial agents).

goals

The Master's Degree and the Doctoral Program in Economics of the Austrian School that it supports aim to delve deeper into some of the basic pillars of the Strategic Plan of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos , specifically:

• Design a quality study and research program, taught by professionals with international recognition in the field of Economics of the Austrian School.
• Initiate postgraduate research, using the methodological rigor that characterizes the Austrian School of Economics, the significant number of postgraduate students who have visited the Department of Applied Economics I of the URJC in recent years, and which has given rise to a important number of doctoral theses defended with the highest qualification. Some of these theses have received national research awards, and the majority of those who are now doctors occupy teaching positions at the URJC itself or in other university institutions.
• Promote the theoretical and technical training processes necessary for the subsequent completion of a doctorate, both for national and foreign students who come mainly from higher education careers with training in Social Sciences and Humanities. For this reason, the three universities that promote this program have joined in.
• Promote quality doctoral theses, from a multidisciplinary perspective - economic, political, sociological, etc. - in the broad methodological field of the Austrian School of Economics.
• Train national and foreign specialists with international competence in their research areas, trained to study and develop new research projects in the field of Economic Sciences from the perspective of Economic Theory and the Methodology of the Austrian School of Economics.
• Establish a work program, internationally contrasted given the success of the Mises Institute in the United States, that in the future involves professionals from other national and foreign institutions.
• Incorporate into a systematized study program the significant number of postgraduate students, national and foreign, who in recent years have shown a growing interest in the topics of Economics of the Austrian School, joining the doctorate in Economics at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and, in particular, to the seminars given by Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto.
• The Austrian School's Master's program in Economics aims to provide students with the methods of this School, as well as the knowledge to apply them to the analysis of economic problems.
• The Master is designed not only to provide students with the necessary knowledge to carry out specialized research within Economics as a scientific discipline, but also to provide them with the necessary experience to develop their skills as experts in this field. in both the public and private sectors.