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FAES Summer Course 2019. How to ensure the wellness model?

“How to ensure the welfare model?” has been the title of the dialogue held that closed the second day of the FAES 2019 Summer Course. In this meeting, moderated by Miguel Marín, José Antonio Herce, have participated associate director of International Financial Analysts (AFI), Fernando Becker, professor of Applied Economics of the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, and Gregorio Izquierdo, doctor in Economic Sciences and tenured professor of Applied Economics at the National University of Distance Education (UNED).

Circular economy: there is no longer an excuse

Miguel Marín escribe para El Economista sobre la necesidad de un cambio hacia una economía circular

Miguel Marín writes an article for El Economista in which he talks about the need for a change towards a circular economy, a model based on optimizing and taking advantage of the use of resources and materials for as long as possible throughout the production cycle and in which waste generation is reduced to a minimum, leaving behind the “extract, produce, consume and throw away” model.

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FAES Dialogues. Who should manage public services in Spain?

In this FAES Dialogues, the Secretary for Programs of the Popular Party and expert in Public Administration, Mario Garcés, and the head of the FAES economic area, Miguel Marín, explain the keys to the debate, the situation in Spain in a context of budget shortages and the proposal regarding the Popular Party.

Regulatory inconsistencies in the electricity sector

The energy transition process towards full decarbonization of the economy in 2050, a commitment made by Spain as a member of the EU after the Paris agreements of 2015, represents a challenge of social transformation so profound that it is not even comparable to the introduction of the euro at the beginning of the current century. We are being asked – in fact, because of representative democracy, we have decided that way – to transform our way of moving and moving, of producing and transporting goods, of heating ourselves, of producing electricity, … we are being asked that all our energy demand generates an offer that does not emit CO2 and also with really ambitious deadlines.

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Reflections on the need (or not) of a Fiscal Union for the EU

The euro celebrated on January 1, 2019, the 20 years of its creation. It did so, on the one hand, having overcome important challenges along the way and with a considerably reinforced institutional architecture and, on the other hand, it did so surrounded by claims and old debates about the need to complete the Banking Union and implement a Fiscal Union as the only one way to ensure that Member States are equipped to cushion future external shocks and survive next crises.

Labor Reform 2019. Why touch what works?

The Government has announced its intention to “eliminate the most damaging aspects of the 2012 labor reform,” and intends to do so through a decree law, forcing democratic institutions to the maximum. In the last #VideoanalysisFAES, the head of the Foundation’s economic area, Miguel Marín, explains the positive performance of the reform since its entry into force, and highlights the contradictions that hover over the government’s stubbornness with this issue.

DialoguesFAES. Economic Outlook 2019

2019 will be a year marked by the slowdown in the world economy. The first symptoms of weakness are also beginning to be felt in Spain. Pedro Antonio Merino (Repsol), Fernando Fernández (IE Business School) and Miguel Marín (FAES) speak about it.