The Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising, on 22 May at 7 p.m., the dialogue ".Economic and demographic dynamics in perspective: does population growth lead to more or less resource abundance? with the participation of Marian L. Tupy, Deirdre McCloskey, Ian Vasquez y Gabriel Calzada (moderator) on the occasion of the presentation of the book entitled Superabundance by the authors Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley, published by Deusto.
Marian L. Tupy is editor of HumanProgress.org and public policy analyst at the Center for Freedom and Global Prosperity. He specialises in globalisation and global welfare, the political economy of Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. His articles have been published in the Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal (USA and Europe), The Atlantic, Spectator (United Kingdom), Weekly Standard, Foreign Policy, Reasonand many other media both in the US and abroad. Tupy has appeared on the programme The NewsHour with Jim Lehrerin CNN International, BBC World, CNBC, MSNBC, Al Jazeeraand other television channels. He has served on the Angola Commission of the Council on Foreign Relations, testified before the US Congress on the economic situation in Zimbabwe, and briefed the Foreign Relations Committee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the State Department on political developments in Central Europe. Tupy received his degree in international relations and classics from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and his Ph.D. in international relations from the University of St. Andrews in Britain.
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is Distinguished Scholar, Isaiah Berlin Professor of Liberal Thought at the Cato Institute and Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and History, and Professor Emerita of English and Communication, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. After receiving her PhD in economics from Harvard, she taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa. She has written twenty-four books and some 400 scholarly and popular articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy, rhetoric, statistical theory, feminism, ethics and law. His most recent books include The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Capitalism (University of Chicago Press, 2006), Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World (University of Chicago Press, 2010), Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World (University of Chicago Press, 2016), Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All (Yale University Press, 2019), and with Art Carden Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: The Bourgeois Deal (University of Chicago Press, 2020).
Ian Vasquez is Vice President for International Studies and Director of the Cato Institute's Center for Global Freedom and Prosperity. He is co-author of Human Freedom Index. Vasquez is a weekly columnist for El Comercio (Peru). He has published articles in newspapers in the United States and Latin America and has appeared on television and radio stations throughout the continent. He is a member of the Mont Pèlerin Society and has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has testified before the US Congress on numerous occasions. Vasquez received his BA from Northwestern University and his MA from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is editor of Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism and co-editor of Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF and the Developing World.
If you would like to attend, please contact the Foundation by e-mail at confirmaciones@frdelpino.es.
