A lack of political leadership opens the door to foolishness. This is no coincidence, and fixing it will not be easy
The EU insists on using each new problem as an excuse to deepen its statism, even though this very statism is the root cause of its decline
The reform of the U.S. federal administration requires managing intense tensions within an unusual organizational structure
While the Spanish Socialist Party abandons the working class, Danish socialism reinvents itself to continue defending them
The more odious the messenger, the easier it is to ignore him. Europe must respond to Trump’s message with more action and less hand-wringing
Avoiding the costs of the energy transition makes it more expensive and jeopardizes it
It doesn’t even know when, how or who is going to tell it
Europe should learn from Biden to correct course, but it persists in its mistakes, which doom it to populism
European leaders do not fail. Faced with every opportunity to make amends, they only know how to relapse
Consumer regulation should abandon simplistic views and understand how markets function
Western intellectualism is no longer hegemonic, yet it struggles to adapt to a plural environment without barriers to entry
The imminent European regulation on social media will only make things worse
Our civilization forgets that it freed individuals, giving them feelings of guilt, to reduce the paralyzing oppression of shame
Video interview for FacultiNet on the reform of bankruptcy
The World Bank is discontinuing the Doing Business indicators because of irregularities in the application of its methodology. However, it is the flaws in that methodology and its sports-league marketing that have caused most damage, distorting policy priorities and favoring cosmetic reforms.
Opinion polls reflect that dominant social values in Spanish society favor, in comparison with our European neighbors, the State playing a…
Remarks at the Panel from the “New Enlightenment Conference: Reshaping Capitalism and the Global Order in a Neo-Mercantilist World,” Session…
Those who get in touch with rule-of-law institutions perceive that they work worse. Optimism on the functioning of institutions seems to be…
In “Religion and the European Union,” we point out that the recent literature on cultural differences across euro member states fails to…
From Coase (1960) to Akerlof (1970), Williamson (1979), and Grossman and Hart (1986), economic models assume that transactors are well…