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Fighting statism and cronyism in Central America.
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A rebuttal to Miss Amel Karboul theses on her recent TEDtalk Dec 14, 2017

This is a letter I sent to Miss Amel Karboul, "secretary-general of the Maghreb Economic Forum, and commissioner at the Education Commission". It is to address her dangerous fallacies in the recent TedTalk in Milan, here: https://www.ted.com/talks/amel_karboul_the_global_learning_crisis_and_what_to_do_about_it     Dear Miss Karboul, As a BCG alumnus, I received the Panorama newsletter today, featuring your TEDTalk in Milan. When recounting the decision of the Tunisian State to “invest” 20% of the country GDP in compulsory schooling, you state that “Some people protested. What about infrastructure? What about electricity, roads and running water? I would argue that the most important infrastructure are minds, educated minds”. I...

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The bright future of Liberty Feb 16, 2016

“(…) the lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the government, the government should not support the people”. Thus Grover Cleveland wrote in 1887, vetoing a small, 10.000$ bill approved by Congress to help Texas farmers with seeds, after a drought of many years. Can you imagine an elected officer of any country today stating on the record that “the government should not support the people”? I see eggs, tomatoes and the occasional rock flying, perhaps even physically. But Cleveland was a Democratic (Republican and Democratic-Republican before) president, successor of giants like Jefferson, Madison and Van Buren....

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It is time to abandon the Nation-State Sep 29, 2015

At the end of March, I had the privilege to assist to the conferences of the Mont Pelerin Society and Fundación Internacional para la Libertad in Lima, Peru. I felt one issue in particular rose above all others in the discussions: the threat posed to the liberal State by the rise of theocracies (in the Middle East), the leftwing populism (in Latin America) and the authoritarian State with fascist tendencies (for example in Russia).   In my opinion, these phenomena are different only in appearance, while in reality they have the same cause: a deep dissatisfaction with the liberal State...

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