Options for Brexit
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 07/03/16. The vote in the United Kingdom (UK) in favor of leaving the European Union (Brexit) opens up different possible scenarios to establish a new framework of relations with Europe and the world. What is going to happen now is a complete unknown.
Will demographics solve unemployment?
Article published by Mr. José Carlos Francisco Díaz in La Gaveta Económica in the June 2016 issue. Since the crisis opened its jaws back in 2008, employment was swallowed up unstoppably until approximately 2013, reaching unemployment figures of over 33% of the active population.
Voting without debate is not democratic
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 06/26/16. After my last article on Brexit, some readers have asked me to further develop my proposal for deliberative democracy. It is one of the tools analyzed within decision theory, an interdisciplinary area related to economics, […]
Brexit
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 06/19/16. Engrossed as we are with the new electoral campaign that our politicians have “gifted” to us, for Spaniards the referendum on June 23 on the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union, better known as […]
Merger and financing of municipalities and regions
Merger and financing of municipalities and regions 2016 José Alberto León Alonso This work is a separate piece from the book “A territorial reform for Spain”, by the same author, which proposes a territorial reform of the Spanish Constitution that resolves the problems of the State of the Autonomies. This text has been published separately with […]
Helpful Vote
Helpful Vote 2016 José Alberto León Alonso Spanish democracy is experiencing a crisis of representativeness and evident legitimacy, synthesized in the slogan “they do not represent us” that was popularized by 15-M. Years after that movement, 80% of Spaniards do not see themselves represented by the Congress of Deputies. Citizens feel that our […]
Inequality and poverty
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 06/12/16. “28.6% of Spaniards are at risk of poverty and social exclusion,” most Spanish newspapers published on their front pages less than a month ago. “In Spain there are 13 million poor people,” said others. This data is obtained from […]
In line with expectations
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 06/05/16. The unemployed registered in the Canary Islands in the INEM in the month of May 2016 amounted to 240,067 people, with a decrease of 1,996 people compared to the previous month and 11,874 people compared to May 2015. Despite the media importance […]
Pimelia Canariensis (II), MIAs and ANTIs
Article published by Mr. José Carlos Francisco Díaz in La Gaveta Económica in the May 2016 issue. In the last article I spoke to you about PIMELIA (beetle) and today I am also going to do so about mediocre inoperative active syndrome (MIA) and opposition syndrome (ANTIS). If you allow me, I will explain it […]
Tomorrow is already here
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 05/29/16. Last week it was learned that the public debt in Spain had reached the psychological level of 100% of GDP, a level that had not been seen in our country since 1909, as a result of the debt caused by the disastrous wars of '98. The […]
