[twitter-follow screen_name=’MadridEco’] EL ESTADO DEL BIENESTAR ES LA PROPUESTA DE EUROPA PARA EL MUNDO El Estado del Bienestar es la propuesta de la Unión Europea para el mundo. Sin esa propuesta la democracia perdería profundidad y, seguramente, también la Unión perdería parte de su sentido. Y para poder mantener esa propuesta los economistas tenemos que impulsar las reformas…
Leer másManuel de la Rocha Vázquez Publicado en EL PAIS 9-2-2012 Desde la segunda guerra mundial en Europa se ha tejido un modelo social específico, definido a través de un gran pacto, que permitió a la clase trabajadora aceptar las reglas del mercado a cambio de un papel importante del Estado en la regulación de la…
Leer másPresentación del libro: Luis Ángel Rojo. Recuerdo y homenaje Madrid, 13 de febrero de 2012 http://www.fundacionareces.es/ Sede: Fundación Ramón Areces Vitruvio, 5Horario: 19.00 horas Asistencia gratuita. Programa Lunes, 13 19.00 h Acto de presentación con la participación de los autores del libro. LUIS ÁNGEL ROJO. RECUERDO Y HOMENAJE ÍNDICE Prólogo Luis Ángel Rojo: intelectual comprometido e…
Leer másAMERICA’S GDP is still roughly twice as big as China’s (using market exchange rates). To predict when the gap might be closed, The Economist has updated its interactive chart below with the latest GDP numbers. This allows you to plug in your own assumptions about real GDP growth in China and America, inflation rates and…
Leer máshttp://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/01/imfs-latest-forecast-3 THE ECONOMIST Perverse austerity Jan 24th 2012, 20:09 by G.I. | WASHINGTON THE International Monetary Fund sharply lowered its global economic outlook today and warned that an intensified euro crisis could tip the world back into recession. Its latest forecast is for the world to grow 3.3% this year and the advanced countries 1.2%, sharply lower than it…
Leer másHow to keep economists from missing the next financial crisis. By ROBERT JOHNSON | January 19, 2012 http://business.time.com/2012/01/19/economists-a-profession-at-sea/?iid=biz-article-mostpop1 ILLUSTRATION BY O.O.P.S. FOR TIME After the financial crisis of 2008, the Queen of England asked economists, “Why did no one see the credit crunch coming?” Three years later, a group of Harvard undergraduate students walked out of introductory economics…
Leer másRobert J. Shiller http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/shiller81/English 2012-01-18 NEW HAVEN – In his classic Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (1724), Bernard Mandeville, the Dutch-born British philosopher and satirist, described – in verse – a prosperous society (of bees) that suddenly chose to make a virtue of austerity, dropping all excess expenditure and extravagant consumption. What then…
Leer másDani Rodrik http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rodrik42/English CAMBRIDGE – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown promotes it as a vehicle for creating high-skill jobs. French President Nicolas Sarkozy talks about using it to keep industrial jobs in France. The World Bank’s chief economist, Justin Lin, openly supports it to speed up structural change in developing nations. McKinsey is advising governments on how…
Leer másMichael Spence http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/spence31/English 2012-01-13 MILAN – In the 66 years since World War II ended, virtually all centrally planned economies have disappeared, largely as a result of inefficiency and low growth. Nowadays, markets, price signals, decentralization, incentives, and return-driven investment characterize resource allocation almost everywhere. This is not because markets are morally superior, though they…
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