otro Agro Ingreso Seguro?
Artículo de Douthat sobre el "welfare empresarial"
Reseña de libro de Hacker y Bierson sobre las poíticas económicas en USA a favor de los ricos
The authors, political scientists Jacob Hacker of Yale and Paul Pierson of the University of California, Berkeley, argue persuasively that the economic struggles of the middle and working classes in the U.S. since the late-1970s were not primarily the result of globalization and technological changes but rather a long series of policy changes in government that overwhelmingly favored the very rich.
La política contraccionista beneficia a los tenedores de bonos
Artículo de Thomas Freedman sobre la economía rentista en Grecia
Artículo de Brooks en el que critica el sistema en el cual el gobierno decide qué empresas apoyar y cuáles no
The Government Accountability Office discovered that Solyndra had been permitted to bypass required steps in the government loan guarantee process. The Energy Department’s inspector general criticized the department for not maintaining e-mails that discussed how the loan guarantee winners were chosen.
otro Agro Ingreso Seguro?
Late last month, Solyndra announced that it was ceasing operations, laying off its 1,100 employees. The Department of Energy placed the wrong bet, potentially losing the taxpayers half-a-billion dollars.
Colección de papers de Tollison sobre rent seeking
Artículo de Friedman sobre entrevista a Fujiyama alrededor de los intereses especiales
Artículo de Brooks. Cita libre que parece interesante de Zingales
"This is why J.M. Keynes advocating “
euthanizing
” the rentier.
As you know, “euthanasia” means “mercy killing”—you kill to reduce pain and
suffering. Keynes was serious about this—his recommendation came in the final
chapter of his great General Theory, as one of his two fundamental
policy proposals. (For completeness, the other was a “somewhat comprehensive
socialisation of investment”."