In 1998, the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation launched an annual Summer School meant to bring together a number of economists and philosophers in order to discuss the state of the art in a field of common interest. Summer School topics have ranged from bounded rationality and scientific progress in economics to polarization and conflict. The interaction of distinguished scholars with an audience of young researchers is a central concern of the Summer School. Lecturers in past years have included Amartya Sen, Uskali Mäki, Ariel Rubinstein, and Philippe van Parijs.

2010: Learning from the Great Recession

2009: Welfare Economics: Where do we Stand?

2008: Social Norms

2007: Using Economic Models to Make Policy Recommendations

2006: New Philosophy of the Social Sciences

2005: Redefining the role of international economic organizations

2004: The Design and Consequences of Constitutions

2003: Network Theory

2002: Approaches to Equality

2001: Polarization and Conflict

2000: On Bounded Rationality

1999: Economics at the Turn of the Millenium: Pondering Progress

1998: The Philosophical Foundations of Normative Economics