Publications
No Strings Attached
In his film Annie Hall, Woody Allen attempts to explain irrational relationships with a joke: "This guy goes...
Monopolies
Competition is vital for efficient market functioning: without competition, there is permanent propensity for price growth, no incentive...
Misspent Opportunities
In one of his eloquent observations, Mark Twain noted that "I was seldom able to see an opportunity...
Middle Class
Mexican society has experienced phenomenal change and has achieved the feat of becoming majority middle class. Felipe Calderón...
Mexico and Brazil
An anecdote relates that Talleyrand, the great French statesman, took refuge in his home while Paris burned as...
Lessons Learned
The violence stalking the country does not let up, nor does it seem to respond to the calculations,...
Leadership
All Mexican presidents begin their six-year terms certain in the knowledge that they will transform the country and...
Kamikaze
In one of the great battles of history, at Cannae in southern Italy, Hannibal the Carthaginian general almost...
Incongruities
Something peculiar took place vis-à-vis the Bicentennial celebration: the government organized it, but the population appropriated it. The...
Hybrid
Referring to the end of the Soviet Union, Solzhenitsyn wrote that "the revolution is an amalgam of former...