For our elites, the key decision is to what extent greed can be moderated so property rights (even over plundered assets) by outgoing factions will be respected by incoming ones.
Posts Tagged ‘GMA’
Elite property rights in the Philippines II
Posted: March 20, 2010 in Cory Aquino, Erap, GMA, Philippine politics, Political economyTags: elite factions in the Philippines, Erap, FVR, GMA, property rights, realist IR theory, Tita Cory
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What a week!
Posted: August 13, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Alpha Sigma, Arnel de Guzman, Bongbong Marcos, Cory Aquino, Douglass North, dragon effect, elite squabbles, elites, GMA, Imee Marcos, John Nye, new institutional economics, NIE, property rights, Tita Cory
I know, I know, I know. This blog should have been written and posted four days ago. And I should be blogging on more recent events. But I need to get this particular blog done and ‘out of the way’. The obvious high point of the fantastic week was Tita Cory’s death, wake, and funeral. [...]
Why should she?
Posted: July 27, 2009 in GMA, Philippine politicsTags: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, GMA, SONA, SONA 2009
As in her previous State of Nation Addresses (SONAs), President GMA reported on her administration’s many accomplishments and claimed that the ‘state of the nation is a strong economy’. She disappointed those who expected her, including her many critics, to make a categorical statement that it was to be her last SONA, that presidential elections [...]
