José Manuel Suárez Mier* It is fashionable to propose tax reforms to raise government revenue to undertake endless spending, from creating a universal welfare state, redistributing income and wealth, investing in ultra-broadly defined infrastructure, to solving global warming. The jeremiad of some in Mexico, with …
Antonio Navalón June 6 is and will continue to be a key date in the history of humanity, but especially among European nations. On June 6, 1944, the Normandy shores turned gray. That day, more than 150 thousand soldiers, more than 6 thousand ships, and …
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José Manuel Suárez Mier* When you read these lines, dear reader, the 28th annual meeting of the Alamos Alliance will be held virtually, which brings together economists from all over America to discuss current issues, no longer in the three days of face-to-face meetings in …
José Manuel Suárez Mier * John Williamson, the talented British economist who created the famous and much-maligned Washington Consensus (WC), passed away last week after a fruitful career spent analyzing and proposing economic and financial policies that he believed were the most appropriate for growth …
Image: Zhev on iStock José Manuel Suárez Mier* Some of my readers complained that I did not include Mundell’s essential contributions to international economics theory and practice in my previous article, which they are absolutely right. My only explanation is the difficulty of fully covering such a huge work in 500 words. I omitted the …
Antonio Navalón In the day after this crisis, what lies ahead is a difficult job, but it cannot be delegated. Before, long before February 2020, States had already entered a phase of accelerated closure and liquidation. This century, the century of knowledge, the century of …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* One of the most influential thinkers has just died. He made notable theoretical contributions while influencing the economic policy applied like few others: the creation of the euro and the European monetary union; the economic boom in the Reagan era; and …
Antonio Navalón We will never know how lucky we were to discover that we were mortal suddenly. It is practically impossible to reconstruct what the world cared about exactly a year ago when it was completely different from today. However, the second round has already …
Juan Villoro In December 2020, I spoke with Irene Vallejo in a virtual meeting organized by the Foundation for Mexican Letters. Suggestively, the Aragonese philologist took up a major theme of her book El infinito en un junco (The infinite in a reed): the decisive …