Uber – an app that links private taxi drivers with customers – has encountered several roadblocks around the world …
Is Spain Better than a AAA Rate?
For the first time since the beginning of the crisis, the Spanish government faces lower borrowing costs that the U.S. …
Is Spanish Government reformism delivering?
Does the current economic policy in Spain help or impede the recovery and medium and long-run growth prospects? Together with a group of eight IESE experts and six of some of the most prominent Spanish economists, we have developed the Reform Monitor, an assessment of the performance of the Spanish economy; the adequacy of the […]
What is “the economy” and how did Charlie Chaplin misunderstand it?
Oh no, not again, more theory about what economists do! Don’t worry; today it’s about Charlie Chaplin and broken glass too. The other day I read a letter to the editor in the FT titled, “Economics in just one sentence” (in the February 25, 2014 paper version). It dealt with the question at hand – […]
Chilean Elections and Social Inequality
Last month I went to Chile to vote in the national presidential election held on Nov 17. This was the second time that I voted in my country. The previous one was years ago, when Pinochet asked Chileans to vote “yes” or “no” as to whether they supported his brutal regime against the United Nations’ […]
