Jean Pisani-Ferry is a professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and currently serves as the French government’s Commissioner-General for Policy Planning. He is a former director of Bruegel, the Brussels-based economic think tank.
In 1990, 12 advanced economies had a tax on household wealth. Now only four do, after French President Emmanuel Macron scrapped his country’s version in 2017. Yet, a fierce debate has eru...
A Margaret Thatcher y a Ronald Reagan se los recuerda por la revolución de laissez-faire que lanzaron a comienzos de los años 1980. Hicieron campaña y ganaron en base a la promesa de que ...
La dirigencia europea viene prestando muy poca atención al futuro de la eurozona desde julio de 2012, cuando Mario Draghi, presidente del Banco Central Europeo, hizo su famosa promesa de ...
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” This, reportedly, is how Keynes replied to the criticism that he had changed his position on the policy response to the Gre...
"Cuando los hechos cambian, cambio de opinión. ¿Usted qué hace, señor?" Se dice que ésta es la manera en que Keynes respondió a las críticas de que había cambiado su posición respecto de ...
In many countries, where you live tends to be an accurate predictor of what or whom you are voting for. This was most evident in the maps of the electoral geography of voting for “Leave” ...
En muchos países, el lugar de residencia de los votantes permite predecir con bastante exactitud sus preferencias electorales. Fue patente en los mapas de la geografía electoral del voto ...
Last month, I wrote a commentary asking why voters in the United Kingdom supported leaving the European Union, defying the overwhelming weight of expert opinion warning of the major econo...
By the time British citizens went to the polls on June 23 to decide on their country’s continued membership in the European Union, there had been no shortage of advice in favor of remaini...
If voters in the United Kingdom decide in the country’s referendum on June 23 to leave the European Union, it will not be for economic reasons. They may choose Brexit because they want fu...
On August 30, 2013, the United States was about to launch air strikes on Syria, where more than a thousand civilians had died in a sarin gas attack perpetrated by the army of President Ba...
If you do not understand what is happening to the eurozone economy, you are not alone. One day we are told that growth is definitely passé; the next that recovery is on track; and the thi...
When the United Kingdom joined the then-European Economic Community in 1973, it was at the rearguard of European integration. The question raised by the UK’s upcoming referendum on contin...
If one considers some of today’s main challenges – including climate change, pensions, public debt, and the labor market – an obvious conclusion emerges: It is relatively much worse to be...
