Economía
Virgilio Zapatero: “Invité a Goirigolzarri con la tarjeta y ahora Bankia me lo reclama”
El ex ministro socialista en los ochenta afirma que «nadie quería saber nada de estas tarjetas» en la entidad
Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom win the Nobel prize for economic sciences
SUPPOSE that you and I are interested in opening a lemonade stand together. We agree that I will bring the materials we need (cups, stand and so forth) while you will make the lemonade. I’ll do the pouring while you mind the cashbox and at the end we will split the proceeds fairly. A doubt niggles, though. I am worried you might, at the end, try to hog the contents of the cashbox. We therefore decide to draw up a contract (common practice in the lemonade-stand industry) dictating that the returns to our operation must be split evenly. But then you start to worry: much of the success of our stand will depend on the quality of the lemonade, over which I have no control. What if I decide to slack off and piggyback on your lemonade-brewing genius, knowing that after you pour your sweat into the lemonade (not literally), the split is still an even 50-50? We therefore set to haggling over language in the contract setting out precisely how each of us should do our respective jobs.
Contracts play a critical role in the operation of the modern economy. They set out who is allowed to do what with the land they own, the people they employ and the songs they store on their smartphones….Continue reading
El secretario de Caja Madrid sobre las ‘black’: “La tarjeta no era una retribución”
Enrique de la Torre desmonta la tesis de los consejeros y les acusa de no decir la verdad cuando afirman que era un sueldo
Oliver Hart y Bengt Holmström, Premio Nobel de Economía 2016
El Banco de Suecia concede el galardón más prestigioso de la ciencias económicas