Culpables

Las construcciones sociales son claves para entender procesos históricos, eso es sabido. Pero es dentro de éstas donde las culpas aparecen como conductoras de cambios, posibilidades y negaciones, cuestión que muchas veces no es tomada en cuenta. Veamos lo que sucede ahora en Estados Unidos y en el resto del primer mundo con los economistas. Se lee en un artículo del Economist titulado "What went wrong with economics":

"In the wake of the biggest economic calamity in 80 years that reputation has taken a beating. In the public mind an arrogant profession has been humbled. Though economists are still at the centre of the policy debate—think of Ben Bernanke or Larry Summers in America or Mervyn King in Britain—their pronouncements are viewed with more scepticism than before. The profession itself is suffering from guilt and rancour. In a recent lecture, Paul Krugman, winner of the Nobel prize in economics in 2008, argued that much of the past 30 years of macroeconomics was “spectacularly useless at best, and positively harmful at worst.”

(..) And if economics as a broad discipline deserves a robust defence, so does the free-market paradigm. Too many people, especially in Europe, equate mistakes made by economists with a failure of economic liberalism. Their logic seems to be that if economists got things wrong, then politicians will do better. That is a false—and dangerous—conclusion. "

Basta de economistas, dice el público. Se llevan gran parte de la culpa de esta crisis. Y con sus culpas, cae un gran piedra -como dice el Economist, poco inocentemente- también sobre el libre mercado: es el turno de los políticos al mando de Estados intervencionistas. Como se ve, las culpas se llevan muchas cosas consigo.