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Global Issues
Another post-pandemic economic crisis?
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 …
Father of the Washington Consensus dies.
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 …
Mundell’s Impossible Trinity
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 …
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The Day After
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 …
RIP the Great Economist Robert Mundell
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 …
The Second Round
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 …
Textile and Text
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 …
The Future of Democracy in a World of Rising Authoritarianism.
Watch Yuval Noah Harari and Masha Gessen in conversation, presented by Munk Debates. Yuval and Masha share their opinions on the future of democracy in a world of rising authoritarianism. What are the root causes of nations and people turning away from liberalism? How is social media affecting our democratic politics? Are populist politics incompatible …
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Dark Times
Photo: Ryan De Hamer on Unsplash Antonio Navalón One of the most important cultural breaks that humanity is aware of was the Middle Ages’ passage to the Renaissance. This was a complete change that coincided with the explosion of some of the most important pandemics – for example, the Black Plague – that took place …
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