A propósito de nada –ok no, la discusión sobre soluciones regulatorias a la cocentración de medios masivos en México me hizo recordar que… ok, tampoco, un tuit de Pepe Merino me recordó un gran paper de Stiglitz (de esos que hay que leer 3 veces). Aquí un extracto de la introducción del artículo (el énfasis es mío). Si lo leen con cuidado notarán por qué el punto de vista de la economía es tan importante a la hora de discutir reformas de gran calado o políticas públicas particulares.

Joseph Stiglitz. “The Private Uses of Public Interests: Incentives and Institutions“. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1998.

As a long-time student of the public sector, I welcomed the opportunity to come to Washington as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers and later to become the Chairman of the Council, partly because it gave me an opportunity to study at first hand this immensely important part of our economy and society and to test my ideas against the reality of government in action.

To be sure, I came also as an activist, if not with a fully articulated agenda, at least with a view about what it was that government should, and should not be doing. Continue reading →