October 2011
5 posts
Luna Bolivar - ¿Quién entiende esta crisis y quién... →
Desde periodismohumano me han entrevistado para este artículo.
Paul De Grauwe, "European summits in ivory towers" →
“Academics have the reputation of living in an ivory tower far away from the realities of the world. My impression is that instead of the academics, it is the European leaders who have been living in an ivory tower. Disconnected from the economic and financial realities, they have created an institution that does not work and will never do so properly. Now they are creating a financial...
Epic fail al BCE
Esto es una traducción de mi último post al SEJ:
Los tecnócratas europeos aparentemente han descubierto ahora que se enfrentan a unos problemas ligados a una deuda pública y privada y que será complicado desempalancarla porque requiere una distribución de costes importantes. McKinsey ha descrito episodios de desempalancamiento tras crisis financieras siguiendo cuatro modelos: austeridad, quiebra,...
Andrew G. Berg and Jonathan D. Ostry, "Equality... →
From the IMF:
“Do societies inevitably face an invidious choice between efficient production and equitable wealth and income distribution? Are social justice and social product at war with one another?
In a word, no.
In recent work (Berg, Ostry, and Zettelmeyer, 2011; and Berg and Ostry, 2011), we discovered that when growth is looked at over the long term, the trade-off between...
New Statesman - Here’s your Plan B, Mr Osborne →
“Nine of the world’s leading economists offer an alternative to the coalition’s austerity measures.”
