The economic thought of Salvador de Madariaga

Abstract

Salvador de Madariaga was a versatile liberal thinker with great international prestige that made him part of the driving force behind several liberal initiatives, including the Mont Pèlerin Society or the College of Europe in Brugge. In this work his few economic thoughts hidden in his political and historical work are synthesized because, as he himself recognized, his knowledge was scarce, and he also gave them very little importance. This work aims to reflect these ideas - sometimes in opposition - and place them in the appropriate context, as well as to reflect the dichotomy between his liberal, political and economic positions, which were not always the same. To do this we have relied on their own writings and the opinions they aroused.