Pro-Market
Certainty about the rules is key for the functioning of an economy, as I affirmed in a previous...
Europe in Mexico
The budget, said Schumpeter, is “the state stripped of ideological pretensions”. True to this principle, in Mexico public...
Productivity: Guiding Principle
Macario Schettino says that Mexicans are poor because they are unproductive. No Mexican in his right mind would...
The Peña Phenomenon
“Be careful what you wish for”, goes the old adage, “because it may come true”. The electorate as...
The PRI Gene
The PRI victory engages many possible explanations but, beyond the specific situation –the performance of the last two...
The System and Walmart
The Walmart case is an affront because it illustrates a facet of Mexican life that no one wants...
To Draw a Line in the Sand
After the storm comes the calm. The country has for years experienced an escalation of violence that is...
Transparency
The darkest character in Catch-22, Joseph Heller’s novel, is Milo Minderbinder, a low-echelon official who constructs an immense...
Distrustful
"The Prince”, wrote Machiavelli, “ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show...
Control in the Era of Globalization
In the independent Mexico there have been two eras of high economic growth: that of the Porfiriato at...