Educational failure

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 03/04/16. The Lisbon Strategy indicates that the formation of human capital is essential to turn it into a productive resource that not only contributes to economic growth, but is also one of the basic pillars to achieve equal opportunities in our society. [...]

What if Donald Trump made it?

Article published by Federico González de Aledo in El Día on 03/27/16. I will not go into valuing the character itself, so that everyone does it at home watching the news that, day after day, appears after their rallies and public appearances. I will focus on the policies, and their respective consequences, that […]

The effectiveness of ECB measures

Article published by Mr. José Carlos Francisco Díaz in La Gaveta Económica in the March 2016 issue. On March 10, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB) announced that he was lowering the interest rate at which he lends to banks to 0% and that he would continue to inject money into the economy at […]

One step away from nuclear "war"

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 03/20/16. On March 10, the Governor of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, surprised the markets again with six measures that the most cautious analysts describe as "artillery" in the "war" against the economic crisis in Europe.

Zero Tolerance

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 13/03/16. “There is one way to tell if a man is honest: by asking him. If he says yes, he's a scoundrel,” Groucho Marx said. Gary Becker, who received the Nobel Prize in Economics for extending microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviors such as […]

Negative expectations

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 06/03/16. The unemployed registered in the Canary Islands in the month of February 2016 amounted to 243,632 people, with a decrease of 2,352 people compared to the previous month and 15,055 people compared to February 2015. Despite the media importance [...]

Animal Spirits

Article published by Mr. José Carlos Francisco in La Gaveta Económica in the February 2016 issue. General elections in Spain open a regular parenthesis every four years. Economic decision-makers, that is, all citizens, waited for the results to know the composition of a center-right or center-left government.

The labor aspects of the "Agreement"

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 28/02/16. On Wednesday, February 24, PSOE and Ciudadanos signed the "Agreement for a reformist and progressive government". In general, the agreement is coherent, moderate and centrist, with mutual assignments to facilitate consensus. It is an agreement that 75% of the […]

We are not represented.

Article published by José Alberto León in El Día on 21/02/16. In economics, social choice theory is about collective decision-making based on the preferences of the individuals who make up a society. One of the aspects he discusses is that of socially optimal voting methods. And on […]

From Mr. Marshall to Mr. Wang

Article published by Federico González de Aledo in El Día on 14/02/16. The younger ones may not have seen it, but they will surely have heard of it. "Bienvenido, Mister Marshall" is a Spanish film, released in 1953, directed by Luis García Berlanga and starring the legendary José Isbert. In […]