Month: February 2016
February 28, 2016
Cuts
Luis Rubio Two have been the reactions to the announcement by government officials of budget cuts: some complain of the impact that these will exert on concrete programs, on public...
February 21, 2016
Maladroitness and Opportunity
Luis Rubio The strangest thing about the Peña-Nieto government is its total indifference toward its own legitimacy. It is probable that the presidential team’s calculation lies in the eventual redemption...
February 14, 2016
The Grand Imbalance
Luis Rubio Charles Dickens, the celebrated British author who told of the enormous dislocation and impoverishment that the Industrial Revolution represented, began The Tale of Two Cities with extraordinary perspicacity:...
February 07, 2016
The Problem of Inequality
Luis Rubio In his book on inequality, Thomas Piketty obliged the world to confront a politically explosive matter. Although his critics have quashed most of the argument in technical terms,...