Nearly a hundred Spanish economists have signed the Avila Manifesto with “urgent” measures that, in their opinion, must be taken to get out of the “great recession” in which the country finds itself.
The manifesto, read by Vicente Enciso, manager of the Catholic University of Ávila (UCAV), the institution that organizes the First Economy and Freedom Congress, in which this document has been written, attributes the crisis to the “rigidities” between the different markets and to the territorial organization of Spain.
For this reason, it advocates a “considerable” reduction in the weight and powers of the State and other Public Administrations, giving entry to the market in the provision and production of social welfare goods and services.
Linking the reactivation to a decrease in tax pressure and “lightening” and “expediting” the regulatory context to facilitate decision-making by economic agents are also measures that have been included in the Manifesto, together with the restoration of market unity .
The Manifesto calls for the “urgent reform” of the territorial organization to control spending and avoid the multiplication of organisms, as well as free and make markets for goods and services and all productive factors more flexible.
Reform the legislation of the universities, giving entry to market criteria; reinforce the separation of powers and convene a forum for the exchange of ideas to develop all these aspects.
The document has been signed, among others, by the economists Juan Velarde, Francisco Cabrillo, Vicente Boceta, Francisco Capella, Raquel Merino, Juan Ramón Rallo, Dalmacio Negro, Philipp Bagus and José Juan Franch.
In statements to the media, Dalmacio Negro, emeritus professor at the CEU-San Pablo University, called attention to the origin of the current crisis and the “absence” of leaders in Europe as a whole.
“It is a terminal crisis of the State and the end of a historical era”, he stressed, adding that Spain’s problem is “more serious”, because it is based on the 1978 Constitution and “has to disappear”, while economies like China or other emerging countries “will eat up the ground”, by having “independent middle classes”, which “are the basis of democracy”.
Juan Ramón Rallo, director of the Juan de Mariana Institute, co-organizer of the congress, has criticized the measures taken by the last Spanish governments, “truly disastrous”, because “they have limited themselves to plundering society by raising taxes”, and has advocated clean up the banks and liberalize the economy.
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