Jorge Fontevecchia started the opening Fontevecchia mode (Net TV Y Radius Profile FM 101.9), of Tuesday, August 30, about the idea of the adjustment that is producing Serge Massa where it is asked if the electoral possibilities can increase or not, to the rhythm of a cooling of the economy, or on the contrary, there … Read more
At the beginning of this century, a fundamental debate began for society that, in fact, can be summed up in two questions: should we care about inequality? Should we do something to reduce it? The answer in both cases is a resounding yes. There are not a few sciences that have dealt with studying inequality … Read more
SOFÍA JORDAN Economist, member of Red ProCompetencia. SOPHIA JORDAN As of May, any employer that publishes a job offer in New York must include the salary of the position, a new law that seeks to reduce the salary gap by reducing information asymmetries. Given this asymmetric reality, increasing transparency in the labor market allows people … Read more
I am writing this article from Times Square, the heart of New York, where I spent my Easter holidays and took advantage of the trip to read the recommendable book ‘Fighting Inequality’. It has been coordinated by Oliver Blanchard and Dani Rodrick and summarizes a seminar at the Peterson Institute in 2019 on the topic … Read more
President Alberto Fernández said yesterday that “the best society we can build is the society that expands rights”, called for “building a future where inequality disappears” and assured that “no one should be discriminated against based on their gender”, closing the Federal Meeting of Councilors and Mayors, organized by the Argentine Federation of Municipalities (FAM) … Read more
PART 2 People no longer trust the traditional parties because they have been dissatisfied for a long time. Politics no longer offers hope.” Gilles Lipovetsky In the first part of this series, I discussed how the weariness and polarization of society can lead countries to fall into the hands of authoritarian governments that undermine democratic … Read more
Since ancient times there has been much speculation about what could be the real indicators on which the measurement of social development in a community should deal. Some specialists had suggested that economic development versus human development are particularly sensitive and important data to explain the correlation that exists between them. So far there has … Read more
One of the greatest challenges of 2022, just two years after a regional outbreak in Asia became a global pandemic, is to stop the worsening of social inequality in the world, one of the most toxic effects of covid-19 after the pandemic. loss of human life and damage to the health of those affected. Indeed, … Read more
Special for Infobae of The New York Times. Daron Acemoglu, an influential economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has argued against the phenomenon he calls “excessive automation.” He notes that the economy has not benefited from investments in machines and software. In contrast, the growing inequality derived from these investments and the public … Read more
MADRID, December 31 (EUROPA PRESS) – The year that is ending, the second of the pandemic, has been marked throughout the world by the vaccination process against Covid-19, the most massive in the history of humanity, but which, in turn, has evidenced the inequality between countries. Beyond Covid, in 2021 the world has witnessed the … Read more