Jobs cool, not the economy

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 09/13/2015. The unemployed registered in the Canary Islands in the INEM in the month of August 2015 amounted to 242,649 people, with a decrease of 1,257 people compared to the previous month and 24,019 people compared to August 2014. Despite the media importance […]

Worse, impossible

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 07/19/15. Throughout the month of July we have watched the penultimate chapters of the Greek soap opera. The signed agreement exudes distrust on all four sides and can be broken into a thousand pieces at each of the innumerable milestones that mark it. The Greeks […]

Turbulence on the road

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 07/14/2015. The unemployed registered in the Canary Islands in the INEM in the month of June 2015 amounted to 248,223 people, with a decrease of 3,718 registered unemployed people compared to the previous month and of 21,836 people compared to June 2014. Despite the importance […]

Will Greece burst the bubbles?

Article published by José Alberto León in El Día on 06/21/15. In the 1980s, Shiller, awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2013, showed that a simple investment rule can be established with which it is very likely to make money. Shiller showed that people's investment decisions are more responsive […]

a wonderful mind

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 06/14/15. A few weeks ago, John Nash, mathematician, Nobel Prize winner in Economics in 1994 for his contribution to Game Theory and recent Abel Prize winner in Mathematics, died in a traffic accident, the considered Nobel Prize in Mathematics, whose contribution to the sciences […]

Agriculture, development option?

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 05/17/15. The social demand to promote agricultural development as an example of diversification of the economy is recurrent. It is usually dotted with nostalgic references to the environmental benefits it would generate and the agricultural power we were, with ships full of fruits, flowers and […]

Greece and game theory

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 02/15/15. Game theory is a branch of economics that studies decisions in which for an individual to be successful they have to take into account the decisions made by the rest of the agents involved in the situation. In […]

Grexit?

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in Diario de Avisos on 01/25/15. The elections taking place today in Greece have become a matter of European importance. There is a lot at stake. In fact, their outcome could determine whether or not the country remains within […]

The single contract, an idea?

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 05/03/15. We must thank Ciudadanos for their work in promoting the economic debate. Paralyze the AVE; introduce the Guaranteed Annual Salary Supplement (CSAG), the Insurance against dismissal and the second chance law; regulate prostitution and marijuana; a tax reform; and […]

The Single Transferable Vote, that great unknown

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 04/26/15. Now that the local and regional elections are approaching, it seems like a good time to talk about the different existing electoral systems, given that ours seems very noticeable, generating problems of poor connection between the voter and the elected, as well as non-proportional results. […]