Maria Blanco is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University San Pablo-CEU (Madrid). She completed her undergraduate in Economics and Business Administration and her PhD in Economics in the Department of Economic History and Institutions at the Universidad Complutense (Madrid), and a Master’s in Adaptive Strategy and Scenario Analysis at EDAP. Her research interests are diverse and cover from the use of mathematics in the History of Economic Thought to the economic analysis of main literary masterpieces or the role of the entrepreneur in the capitalist system. More recently, her research has turned to the study of complexity in economics and its implications for economic theory and policy. Her research is close to the Classical School of Economics, the Austrian School of Economics, Public Choice and more recently the approach of Evolutionist Psychology and Neurosciences to economics.
She has published several books: Las Tribus Liberales, on the present situation of the classical liberal movement, its problems and misperception by society; Afrodita Desenmascarada, on libertarian feminism; Hacienda somos todos, cariño, co-authored with Carlos Rodríguez Braun and Luis A. Ávila; Votasteis gestos, tenéis gestos; and La política del disimulo, a study of Cardinal Mazarin. She is also a regular weekly commentator on economic affairs at Onda Cero, one of Spain’s leading radio networks, and contributes a weekly economics column to El Español.
