The reversal on pension funds exposes the limits of public debt and the weight of corporatism on the reforms Uruguay continues to postpone.
The Minister Backed Down: AFAPs, Debt and the Cost of Not Competing Read Post »
Fito’s Frustration with the Economic Limits of Ideology
COLLECTIVIST DYSTOPIA Read Post »
The disconnect between public-sector compensation, productivity, and the economic effort demanded from society.
Political Salaries: When the State Defies Economic Reality Read Post »
An interested division designed to preserve power
The Eclipse of Political Labels and the Real Divide Read Post »
Purchasing power as a measure of individual freedom, institutional discipline, and a constraint on monetary and fiscal expansion.
The Fifth Power: When Purchasing Power Limits the State Read Post »
Short-Termism, Populism, and the Institutional Path to Liberty
The Trap of Incremental Desperation Read Post »
The author links the stagnation of some 500,000 Uruguayans to an education, tax, and labor system that, in his view, blocks mobility and demands liberal reforms.
The 25,000-Peso Earners: Uruguay’s Wage-Stagnation Trap Read Post »
The contradictions between electoral promises, economic responsibility and the exercise of power undermine trust in politics.
Mythomania, Relativism and Tepidity: The Erosion of Democratic Credibility Read Post »
Low productivity, tax pressure, and the relentless growth of public spending are reinforcing a structure that punishes the formal sector and pushes economic activity into informality.
Uruguay: When Formality Becomes Unviable Read Post »
Leydis Aguilera’s testimony exposes the contrast between Cuba’s extractive dictatorship and Uruguay’s institutional tradition of individual freedom.
Cuba, Uruguay and the Freedom We Take for Granted Read Post »
