Capitalism provides more profits and opportunities, while socialism and interventionism fail consistently impoverishing people. However, it should be acknowledged that in many regions of the occidental world, the middle classes are losing their faith in capitalism. Luckily, we are on time to change this.

Daniel Lacalle explains our economy in a direct, modern, and global way, and remarks on the benefits of saving, investment, and innovation. At the same time, he presents how capitalism can improve the wellbeing of the general population, and not only for those who benefit from the State, the cronyism or the appropriation of income.

Lacalle defends freedom in opposition to those who pretend to cut it for our sake, he goes beyond the defense of an economic system proposing a social model based on responsibility, merit, and reward. A stronger social model able to promote any form of interventionism.

Daniel Lacalle

Daniel Lacalle is a doctor in Economics, chief economist in Tressis SV, Global Economy professor at IE Univerity and IEB, and fund manager. He graduated in Business Sciences from the Autonomous University of Madrid, post-graduated from the IESE (Navarra University), and got his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Valencia. He also holds the CIIA title of the financial analyst (Certified International Investment Analyst).

Daniel Lacalle is the president of the Hispanic Mises Institute and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Rafael del Pino Foundation and the HAC Business School in New York.

His career in portfolio and investment management started at the hedge fund Citadel and continued in Econ Limited and PIMCO, in the USA and London. He has been voted for five consecutive years among the Top 3 managers of the Thomson Reuters’surv Extel Survey in the categories of overall, oil and electricity strategies. Previously, he worked as a financial analyst in ABN Amro (currently called RBS) and took on different responsibilities in Repsol and Enagas.

Daniel Lacalle writes a weekly column for El Español and collaborates monthly with the CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Antena 3, BBN Times, World Economic Forum, Hedge Eye, Epoch, Times, Mises Wire, and The Wall Street Journal.

Daniel Lacalle