"Huerta de Soto Grants
for the research on anarcocapitalism"
The Foundation offers annually up to 15 research grants ranging from €10,000 to €20,000, aimed at supporting academic study of the principles underlying a free society. These grants are intended for researchers and students interested in economic and social analysis from the perspective of economic freedom as developed by the Austrian School of Economics, the spontaneous market order, and the critical examination of statism and anarcho-capitalist theory.
The purpose of this call is to support and enable research and academic activities that contribute to the scientific advancement of anarcho-capitalism from the perspective of the Austrian School of Economics and its leading authors, generating scientific results of high academic impact. Although it is currently impossible to know the specific solutions that entrepreneurial creativity would produce in an environment of complete freedom, these grants are intended to promote research that analyzes specific areas of social life currently subject to state intervention, in order to explore how they could develop in a framework entirely based on individual liberty and the absence of institutional coercion, that is, in an anarcho-capitalist society, with particular emphasis on the analysis of the most appropriate democratic transition toward processes of fully voluntary social cooperation.
The Grants are supported by the Instituto Mises Cono Sur
"Classical liberalism is doomed to be absorbed by the only position that is coherent with the nature of the human being, namely the anarchy of private property, libertarian capitalism, or anarcho-capitalism.."
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2026
SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED, MAY 31
Terms of the Grants
The Board of Trustees of the Foundation approved and published, as of 15 January 2026, the rules governing the grants to be awarded; all participants are subject to their strict compliance.
Where
Madrid, Spain
Type
Remote
Call for applications
Extended until 31 May 2026, 8.00 pm (Madrid)
ANNEX OF RESEARCH TOPICS
The Foundation makes available to applicants an indicative and non-exhaustive list of research topics, with the aim of serving as a guide and reference for the submission of proposals. Researchers may propose other topics related to the same field.
Document
Annex of Research Topics
Character
Orientative
SUGGESTION
The funded research must be conducted from the perspective of Austrian School economic analysis and, in particular, drawing on authors such as the Spanish Scholastics, C. Menger, E. von Böhm-Bawerk, L. von Mises, F. A. Hayek, M. N. Rothbard, I. M. Kirzner, A. Benegas Lynch (h), Walter Block, H. H. Hoppe, J. Salerno, J. Huerta de Soto, P. Boettke, and J. G. Hülsmann, among others.
RESULTS 2026
The 2026 grant recipients will be published here once the corresponding decision has been issued by the Foundation’s Board of Trustees.
Character
Final
Publication date
Due to the high volume of submissions, the decision will be announced during the first few weeks of September 2026.
