Tag: Economic
Italy and Mexico
It is trendy to say that the crisis finally “caught up with us”. The notion that the country...
Inequality
Nobody can ignore the social inequality that Mexico suffers nor scorn the human cost that it represents or...
Control uber alles
Imagine a place where everyone is suspicious of others, in which everyone is willing to achieve their goal...
Power vs. Process
The economic crisis of the last few years could hardly have arrived at a more ominous time for...
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...
Kamikaze
In one of the great battles of history, at Cannae in southern Italy, Hannibal the Carthaginian general almost...
Hubbub
Seneca, the Roman philosopher, had long since anticipated it: "If one does not know to which port one...