370 contra 1
En el Wall Street Journal 370 destacados economistas firmaron una carta contra Donald Trump.
En el noticiero de Ciro Gómez Leyva en Imagen TV, el periodista especializado en economía, David Páramo, ha apoyado al señor Trump.
En este caso, y solo en este, Páramo parece más cerca del pensamiento de la gente común y corriente de Estados Unidos que los 370 economistas mencionados, entre los que hay algunos ganadores del Premio Nobel.
Un desplegado firmado por tantos estudiosos de la ciencia económicas, casi todos ellos profesores o investigadores de las principales universidades estadounidenses, significa que es real la posibilidad de que gane Trump.
Ojalá pierda, pero hay millones de ciudadanos del país más poderoso del mundo dispuestos al votar por él.
¿Por qué? Simplemente, porque la gente está harta de lo que le han ofrecido los políticos tradicionales y, también, los economistas profesionales.
Algo han hecho muy mal políticos y economistas para que millones de personas los desprecien.
Porque es el desprecio a las élites lo que tiene a Donald Trump peligrosamente a un paso de la victoria.
La lista de los 370
1. Jason Abaluck, Yale University
2. Dilip J. Abreu, Princeton University
3. Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4. Amir Ali Ahmadi, Princeton University
5. Mohammad Akbarpour, Stanford University
6. Stefania Albanesi, University of Pittsburgh
7. David Albouy, University of Illinois
8. S. Nageeb Ali, Pennsylvania State University
9. Hunt Allcott, New York University
10. Douglas Almond, Columbia University
11. Daniel Altman, New York University
12. Donald Andrews, Yale University
13. Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14. Andres Aradillas-Lopez, Pennsylvania State University
15. Kenneth Ardon, Salem State University
16. Timothy Armstrong, Yale University
17. Nick Arnosti, Columbia University
18. Kenneth J. Arrow, Stanford University
19. Gaurab Aryal, University of Virginia
20. Arash Asadpour, New York University
21. Susan Athey, Stanford University
22. Andrew Atkeson, University of California, Los Angeles
23. Maximilian Auffhammer, University of California, Berkeley
24. Mariagiovanna Baccara, Washington University, St. Louis
25. Jonathan B. Baker, American University
26. Laurence Ball, Johns Hopkins University
27. Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
28. James Bang, St. Ambrose University
29. Chris Barrett, Cornell University
30. Jean-Noel Barrot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
31. John C. Beghin, Iowa State University
32. Jess Benhabib, New York University
33. Lanier Benkard, Stanford University
34. Alan Benson, University of Minnesota
35. Ronald Berenbeim, New York University
36. Dirk Bergemann, Yale University
37. David Berger, Northwestern University
38. Daniel Beunza, London School of Economics
39. Joydeep Bhattacharya, Iowa State University
40. Alberto Bisin, New York University
41. Emily Blank, Howard University
42. Francine D. Blau, Cornell University
43. Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University
44. Simon Board, University of California, Los Angeles
45. Luigi Bocola, Northwestern University
46. Elizabeth Bogan, Princeton University
47. Michele Boldrin, Washington University, St. Louis
48. Patrick Bolton, Columbia University
49. Carl Bonham, University of Hawaii, Manoa
50. John P. Bonin, Wesleyan University
51. Severin Borenstein, University of California, Berkeley
52. Tilman Borgers, University of Michigan
53. William C. Brainard, Yale University
54. Timothy Bresnahan, Stanford University
55. Moshe Buchinsky, University of California, Los Angeles
56. Eric Budish, University of Chicago
57. Daniel D. Butler, Auburn University
58. Sebastien Buttet, City University of New York
59. Ricardo Caballero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
60. John Y. Campbell, Harvard University
61. Christopher D. Carroll, Johns Hopkins University
62. Gabriel Carroll, Stanford University
63. Michael R. Carter, University of California, Davis
64. Elizabeth Caucutt, University of Western Ontario
65. Sewin Chan, New York University
66. Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Stanford University
67. David A. Chapman, University of Virginia
68. Kalyan Chatterjee, Pennsylvania State University
69. Victor Chernozhukov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
70. Bhagwan Chowdhry, University of California, Los Angeles
71. Lawrence Christiano, Northwestern University
72. Michael Chwe, University of California, Los Angeles
73. Tim Classen, Loyola University Chicago
74. Gian Luca Clementi, New York University
75. Victor Couture, University of California, Berkeley
76. Ian Coxhead, University of Wisconsin
77. Eric W. Crawford, Michigan State University
78. Sean Crockett, City University of New York, Baruch College
79. Barbara Crockett, City University of New York, Baruch College
80. Samuel Culbert, University of California, Los Angeles
81. J. David Cummins, Temple University
82. David Cutler, Harvard University
83. Jaksa Cvitanic, California Institute of Technology
84. Chetan Dave, New York University
85. Paul A. David, Stanford University
86. Donald R. Davis, Columbia University
87. Angus Deaton, Princeton University
88. Joyee Deb, Yale University
89. Rajeev Dehejia, New York University
90. Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley
91. Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
92. Ravi Dhar, Yale University
93. Marco Di Maggio, Harvard Business School
94. Dimitrios Diamantaras, Temple University
95. Peter Diamond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
96. Avinash K. Dixit, Princeton University
97. Rebecca Dizon-Ross, University of Chicago
98. Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University
99. Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
100. Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin
101. William Easterly, New York University
102. Federico Echenique, California Institute of Technology
103. Florian Ederer, Yale University
104. Aaron S. Edlin, University of California, Berkeley
105. Lena Edlund, Columbia University
106. Sebastian Edwards, University of California, Los Angeles
107. J.P. Eggers, New York University
108. Sara Fisher Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
109. Jeffrey Ely, Northwestern University
110. Ryan Fang, University of Chicago
111. Langdana Farrokh, Rutgers University
112. Daniel Fetter, Wellesley College
113. David Figlio, Northwestern University
114. Diana Fletschner
115. Frederick Floss, State University of New York at Buffalo
116. Dana Foarta, Stanford University
117. Meredith Fowlie, University of California, Berkeley
118. Jeffrey Frankel, Harvard University
119. Guillaume Frechette, New York University
120. Victor R. Fuchs, Stanford University
121. Thomas Fujiwara, Princeton University
122. David W. Galenson, University of Chicago
123. Sebastián Gallegos, Princeton University
124. Michael Gallmeyer, University of Virginia
125. David Gamarnik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
126. Bernhard Ganglmair, University of Texas at Dallas
127. Pedro Gardete, Stanford University
128. Robert Garlick, Duke University
129. Peter Garrod, University of Hawaii, Manoa
130. Claudine Gartenberg, New York University
131. François Geerolf, University of California, Los Angeles
132. Christophre Georges, Hamilton College
133. George Georgiadis, Northwestern University
134. Andra Ghent, University of Wisconsin, Madison
135. Suman Ghosh, Florida Atlantic University
136. Stefano Giglio, University of Chicago
137. Chuan Goh, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
138. Ben Golub, Harvard University
139. Daniel Gottlieb, Washington University, St Louis
140. Lawrence H. Goulder, Stanford University
141. William Greene, New York University
142. Dan Greenwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
143. Matthew Grennan, University of Pennsylvania
144. Gene Grossman, Princeton University
145. Jean Grossman, Princeton University
146. Michael Grubb, Boston College
147. Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
148. Martin J. Gruber, New York University
149. Isabel Guerrero, Harvard University
150. Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago
151. Adam Guren, Boston University
152. Isa Hafalir, Carnegie Mellon University
153. Nima Haghpanah, Pennsylvania State University
154. Jens Hainmueller, Stanford University
155. Marina Halac, Columbia University
156. Jeffrey Hammer, Princeton University
157. Ben Handel, University of California, Berkeley
158. Oliver D. Hart, Harvard University
159. Tarek Alexander Hassan, University of Chicago
160. Andreas Hauskrecht, Indiana University
161. Brent Hickman, University of Chicago
162. Kate Ho, Columbia University
163. Saul D. Hoffman, University of Delaware
164. Stephen Holland, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
165. Thomas J. Holmes, University of Minnesota
166. Adam Honig, Amherst College
167. Roozbeh Hosseini, University of Georgia
168. Sabrina Howell, New York University
169. Peter Howitt, Brown University
170. Hilary Hoynes, University of California, Berkeley
171. Yasheng Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
172. Isaiah Hull, Sveriges Riksbank
173. Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University
174. Barry W. Ickes, Pennsylvania State University
175. Nicolas Inostroza, Northwestern University
176. Oleg Itskhoki, Princeton University
177. Kelsey Jack, Tufts University
178. Sanford M. Jacoby, University of California, Los Angeles
179. Paul Jakus, Utah State University
180. Gerald Jaynes, Yale University
181. Ely Jeffrey, Northwestern University
182. Geoffrey Jehle, Vassar College
183. Elizabeth J. Jensen, Hamilton College
184. Barbara A.P. Jones, Alabama A&M University
185. Derek C. Jones, Hamilton College
186. Joseph P. Joyce, Wellesley College
187. John H. Kagel, Ohio State University
188. Lisa B. Kahn, Yale University
189. Navin Kartik, Columbia University
190. Barbara G. Katz, New York University
191. Michael Klein, Tufts University
192. Christopher R. Knittel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
193. Yilmaz Kocer, University of Southern California
194. Michal Kolesár, Princeton University
195. Charles Kolstad, Stanford University
196. Gerald F. Kominski, University of California, Los Angeles
197. Matthew Kotchen, Yale University
198. Kate Krause, University of New Mexico
199. Mordecai Kurz, Stanford University
200. David Laitin, Stanford University
201. Fabian Lange, McGill University
202. Joe Langsam, University of Maryland and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
203. Michel Lawrence, Economic Policy Institute
204. Jonathan Leonard, University of California, Berkeley
205. Jacob Leshno, Columbia University
206. Dan Levin, Ohio State University
207. David Levin, University of California, Berkeley
208. Shengwu Li, Harvard University
209. Annie Liang, University of Pennsylvania
210. Marc Lieberman, New York University
211. Benjamin Linkow, University of Chicago
212. Dennis B. Liotta, New York University
213. Elliot Lipnowski, University of Chicago
214. Zachary Liscow, Yale University
215. Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California, Los Angeles
216. Benjamin Lockwood, University of Pennsylvania
217. Guido Lorenzoni, Northwestern University
218. Jay Lu, University of California, Los Angeles
219. Sydney C. Ludvigson, New York University
220. Catherine Maclean, Temple University
221. Mihai Manea, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
222. Eric Maskin, Harvard University
223. Costas Meghir, Yale University
224. Marc Melitz, Harvard University
225. Konrad Menzel, New York University
226. Robert C. Merton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
227. Andrew Metrick, Yale University
228. Atif Mian, Princeton University
229. Ronald Miller, Columbia University
230. Alan Miller, University of Haifa
231. Kurt Mitman, Stockholm University
232. Benjamin Moll, Princeton University
233. Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University
234. Jonathan Morduch, New York University
235. Alan Moreira, Yale University
236. John Morgan, University of California, Berkeley
237. Stephen E. Morris, Princeton University
238. Taylor Muir, University of California, Los Angeles
239. Aldo Musacchio, Brandeis University
240. Roger Myerson, University of Chicago
241. John Nachbar, Washington University, St. Louis
242. Barry Nalebuff, Yale University
243. Paulo Natenzon, Washington University, St. Louis
244. Roz Naylor, Stanford University
245. Jack Needleman, University of California, Los Angeles
246. Christopher A. Neilson, Princeton University
247. David Neumark, University of California, Irvine
248. Marina Niessner, Yale University
249. Roger G. Noll, Stanford University
250. John O'Trakoun, Ford Motor Company
251. Ezra Oberfield, Princeton University
252. James Orlin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
253. David L. Ortega, Michigan State University
254. Pietro Ortoleva, Columbia University
255. Sharon Oster, Yale University
256. Emily Oster, Brown University
257. Ann Owen, Hamilton College
258. Thomas Palfrey, California Institute of Technology
259. Giri Parameswaran, Haverford College
260. Sahar Parsa, Tufts University
261. David Pearce, New York University
262. Lynne Pepall, Tufts University
263. Michael Peters, Yale University
264. Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University
265. Robert S. Pindyck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
266. Laetitia Placido, City University of New York
267. Jeffrey Pliskin, Hamilton College
268. Steve Polasky, University of Minnesota
269. Eswar Prasad, Cornell University
270. Anita Prasad, Temple University
271. Thomas Pugel, New York University
272. Melissa Pumphrey
273. Richard E. Quandt, Princeton University
274. Hazhir Rahmandad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
275. Gautam Rao, Harvard University
276. David S. Rapson, University of California, Davis
277. Debraj Ray, New York University
278. Thomas Reardon, Michigan State University
279. Julian Reif, University of Illinois
280. David Reiley, Pandora Media, Inc., and University of California, Berkeley
281. Philip Reny, University of Chicago
282. John Riley, University of California, Los Angeles
283. Mario Rizzo, New York University
284. John Roberts, Stanford University
285. Yana Rodgers, Rutgers University
286. Paul M. Romer, New York University
287. Donald B. Rosenfield, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
288. Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University
289. Alvin E. Roth, Stanford University
290. Dan Sacks, Indiana University
291. Maryam Saeedi, Carnegie Mellon University
292. Maher Said, New York University
293. Sarada Sarada, University of Wisconsin, Madison
294. Christine Sauer, University of New Mexico
295. Anja Sautmann, Brown University
296. Laura Schechter, University of Wisconsin, Madison
297. Jose A. Scheinkman, Columbia University and Princeton University
298. Frank Schilbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
299. Andrew Schotter, New York University
300. William Schulze, Cornell University
301. Stuart O. Schweitzer, University of California, Los Angeles
302. Julia Schwenkenberg, Rutgers University, Newark
303. Paul Scott, New York University
304. Fiona M. Scott Morton, Yale University
305. Douglas Shaw, Economist
306. Mark Shepard, Harvard University
307. Itai Sher, University of California
308. Gerald Shively, Purdue University
309. Ali Shourideh, Carnegie Mellon university
310. Nirvikar Singh, University of California, Santa Cruz
311. Marciano Siniscalchi, Northwestern University
312. Jack Stecher, Carnegie Mellon University
313. John Sterman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
314. Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
315. Steven Stern, Stony Brook University
316. Adam Storeygard, Tufts University
317. Sandip Sukhtankar, University of Virginia
318. Scott Sumner, Bentley University
319. Ashley Swanson, University of Pennsylvania
320. Steve Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley
321. Joshua Tasoff, Claremont Graduate University
322. Dmitry Taubinsky, Dartmouth College
323. J. Edward Taylor, University of California, Davis
324. Richard Thaler, University of Chicago
325. Mallika Thomas, Cornell University
326. Felix Tintelnot, University of Chicago
327. Oana Tocoian, Claremont McKenna College
328. Dan Tortorice, Brandeis University
329. Nikos Trichakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
330. David Tschirley, Michigan State University
331. Robert W. Turner, Colgate University
332. Stephen Turnovsky, University of Washington
333. Kosuke Uetake, Yale University
334. Utku Unver, Boston College
335. Robert Valdez, University of New Mexico
336. John Van Reenen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
337. Richard Van Weelden, University of Chicago
338. Kerry D. Vandell, University of California, Irvine
339. Laura Veldkamp, New York University
340. Venky Venkateswaran, New York University
341. Gianluca Violante, New York University
342. Tom Vogl, Princeton University
343. Paul Wachtel, New York University
344. Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota
345. Don Waldman, Colgate University
346. Xiao Yu Wang, Duke University
347. Leonard Wantchekon, Princeton University
348. Mark Watson, Princeton University
349. Jonathan Weinstein, Washington University, St. Louis
350. Birger Wernerfelt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
351. Ivan Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
352. Silvia Weyerbrock, Princeton University
353. E. Glen Weyl, Yale University
354. Roger White, Whittier College
355. Andrea Wilson, Georgetown University
356. Larry Wimmer, Brigham Young University
357. Justin Wolfers, University of Michigan
358. Catherine Wolfram, University of California, Berkeley
359. Richard Woodward, Texas A&M University
360. Jeffrey Wooldridge, Michigan State University
361. Bruce Wydick, University of San Francisco
362. Dean Yang, University of Michigan
363. Muhamet Yildiz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
364. Pai-Ling Yin, University of Southern California
365. Gary Yohe, Wesleyan University
366. Thomas C. Youle, Dartmouth College
367. Albert Zevelev, Baruch College
368. Frederick Zimmerman, University of California, Los Angeles
369. Seth Zimmerman, University of Chicago
370. Eric Zivot, University of Washington