Month: September 2014
September 28, 2014
Innovation and Wealth
Luis Rubio Thomas Piketty’s book, Capital, has caused a sensation for the simple reason that it touches on a worrisome theme: inequality. His central argument is that capital grows much...
September 24, 2014
Mid-term Elections
FORBES – September 2014 Luis Rubio Who will win the mid-term elections of 2015? Will the PRI hold an absolute majority that could bring about a return to the old...
September 21, 2014
Convulsions and Markets
Luis Rubio The world appears to be going into convulsions with decapitations of journalists, civil wars, the overtaking of sovereign territories and referenda that could alter long-standing national realities. The...
September 14, 2014
Property and Development
Luis Rubio Mexico’s political and cultural tradition tends to hold in contempt one of the pillars of Western development. Property, that anchor of development first addressed, in philosophical terms, by...
September 07, 2014
Leadership
Luis Rubio Which comes first, the person or the structure, the leader or the institution? The dilemma is debated in academic ambits and is not distinct from the old riddle...