Tag: Economic
Disquisitions
David Lurie, the leading character in the novel Disgrace by CM Coetzee, appears to be devoted body and...
Daring
Success and opportunity are in the air and even the most modest of citizens alludes to the future....
Costs and Reckonings
Myshkin, the hero of Dostoyevsky’s novel “The Idiot”, -erudite, coarse, naïve- arrives at an important party, obsessed with...
Bogged-down Buggy
When the growth engine is stuck in the mire, one should question oneself as to whether the premises...
A World Reversed
The world is racked with convulsions that shatter paradigms and certainties similar only to those that occur at...
Obama and Echeverría
President (and now presidential candidate) Obama frets about the poor, dislikes big business and believes that the government...
Mexico vs Brazil?
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself,” said physicist Richard Feynman, “and you are the...
Pro-Market
Certainty about the rules is key for the functioning of an economy, as I affirmed in a previous...
Productivity: Guiding Principle
Macario Schettino says that Mexicans are poor because they are unproductive. No Mexican in his right mind would...
Control in the Era of Globalization
In the independent Mexico there have been two eras of high economic growth: that of the Porfiriato at...