J. Bradford DeLong is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was Deputy Assistant US Treasury Secretary during the Clinton Administration, where he was heavily involved in budget and trade negotiations. His role in designing the bailout of Mexico during the 1994 peso crisis placed him at the forefront of Latin America’s transformation into a region of open economies, and cemented his stature as a leading voice in economic-policy debates.
BERKELEY – Hace poco, Kathleen Geier intentó hacer una reseña (publicada en The Baffler, una revista en Internet) de las críticas conservadoras al nuevo libro de Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century [El capital en el siglo XXI]. Lo que más llama la atención es la pobreza del análisis de la derecha de los argumentos de Piketty.
El razonamiento de Piketty es minucioso y complicado, pero hay cinco puntos que se destacan especialmente:
1. La relación entre la riqueza de una sociedad y la renta anual tiende a crecer (o decrecer) hasta un nivel igual a la tasa de ahorro neto dividida por la tasa de crecimiento.
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