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What can we expect from the Trump Administration?

What can we expect from the Trump Administration?

Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States has sparked a great deal of speculation. In this post, we will analyze the political viability of some of his proposals and explore the effects that their implementation may have on the United States and the rest of the world. Immigration:Read More

Institutions and development: Some thoughts and open questions

Institutions and development: Some thoughts and open questions

Capitalist institutions have clearly brought about a great deal of progress in what are today’s developed countries. It is therefore no wonder that the prevailing belief in institutional economics is that underdevelopment is chiefly a consequence of institutional shortcomings. The prevailing idea in the literature is that some countries haveRead More

The bearable lightness of cyber defamation

A newspaper publishes an article about someone, and that person feels that the contents of the article are defamatory. The law provides that this person can sue the newspaper for defamation and, if found guilty, the newspaper’s editors will have to retract the false statements and compensate the person forRead More