Photo: Özgür Özkan on Pexels Manuel Suárez Mier* On a visit my admired teacher Milton Friedman made to China before he fervently embraced the market economy that allowed him to become the giant he is today, his hosts took him to visit facilities and projects under construction of which they were proud. Stopping at a …
Photo: Pyxabay on Pexels Antonio Navalón The story is new. Now we will have to see if it is possible to rectify everything that has led us to this point. Crises have multiplied, and humanity – always playing with danger, always on edge, and still trying to do better – faces hitherto unknown paradigms and …
Photo: Julia Volk on Pexels Luis Rubio It has become frequent to state, with profound conviction, that everything in the past was bad and that for that reason, the current government constitutes the salvation of Mexico. While for some, this is rhetoric, for many, it is an absolute truth that does not admit a debate. …
Photo: Wikipedia Manuel Suárez Mier* I did not get to know George Schultz when I arrived at the University of Chicago in 1970 because he had ceased being dean of the School of Business a year and a half earlier to join Richard Nixon’s cabinet as Secretary of Labor. Still, his academic fame as an …
Photo: Author Unknown, www. railwaysarchive.co.uk on Wikipedia Antonio Navalón For a long time, political scientists and government officials –especially in Mexico– made analyzes to determine how they would fare with the change of president and administration in the United States of America. As for Mexico, this year is not like all the others: exceptional, new, …
Image: Xtockimages on iStock Luis Rubio Beijing in 1980 was a shabby town. A few grand and empty avenues led to the Forbidden City and the great Tiananmen Square, the city’s political heart. Every so often, bicycles went by, these the ubiquitous people’s means of transportation, used for everything, as moving vans and distributing all …
Photo: iLexx on iStock Juan Villoro On December 11, 2020, James Flynn, a philosopher, and psychologist who studied human intelligence evolution, died. Decisive statistics on brain performance are owed to him, a very recent field, considering that Homo sapiens has been in trouble for 315,000 years, and IQ tests have been applied for only a …
Photo: Dynamic Wang on Unsplash Manuel Suárez Mier* The extreme right and the extreme left have more in common than is usually thought: both reject the liberalism that emerged from the Enlightenment, which maintains that respect for the law is critical to creating institutions that allow the creation of “positive-sum” entities that generate confidence and …
Photo: Felipe Vallin on Pexels Antonio Navalón Every day that passes, a new horror story is produced – if that even fits – to the societies we live in. Flying restrictions. Restrictions to arrive. Increasingly strict confinements. The multiplication of contagions occurs as an unstoppable hemorrhage. It is as if we were part of a …
Photo: Evelyn Chong on Pexels Luis Rubio The paradox of power is old and known: the more of it, the less the concern for its use, thus the greater the risk for its being abused. The Mexican economy grew during some decades in the past century thanks to the government’s being a guarantor of political …