{"id":26243,"date":"2009-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/el-espectador-comments-the-column-the-blindness-of-the-economists-written-by-cesar-rodriguez\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:29:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:29:20","slug":"el-espectador-comments-the-column-the-blindness-of-the-economists-written-by-cesar-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/el-espectador-comments-the-column-the-blindness-of-the-economists-written-by-cesar-rodriguez\/","title":{"rendered":"El Espectador comments the column &#8220;The Blindness of the Economists&#8221; written by C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algunos analistas consideran que se debe repensar la profesi\u00f3n. Los expertos explican que lo suyo no se trata de una ciencia exacta.<\/p>\n<p>El dato sobre el Producto Interno Bruto de Estados Unidos en el \u00faltimo trimestre de 2008, dado a conocer el viernes, volvi\u00f3 a plantear el debate. Mientras los expertos hab\u00edan previsto una ca\u00edda del 5,4%, los n\u00fameros oficiales indicaron que la reducci\u00f3n fue de 3,8%.<\/p>\n<p>Estas cifras son el m\u00e1s  reciente desfase de una cadena de diferencias entre las previsiones de los economistas y lo que realmente ocurre. Para varios analistas es la mejor evidencia de que la profesi\u00f3n sufre una crisis similar a la de la econom\u00eda mundial.<\/p>\n<p>En una reciente columna publicada en El Espectador, titulada \u2018La ceguera de los economistas\u2019, el docente  C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez Garavito lo plante\u00f3 de la siguiente manera: \u201cLa crisis de la econom\u00eda puede ser, entonces, la crisis de la Econom\u00eda. Por eso, como lo dice un art\u00edculo reciente del Herald Tribune, el desaf\u00edo para los economistas no es s\u00f3lo c\u00f3mo reparar el mercado, sino c\u00f3mo reparar su profesi\u00f3n\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>El fuerte pronunciamiento no es compartido por varios de los analistas m\u00e1s importantes del pa\u00eds. Es el caso de  Mauricio Rodr\u00edguez, para quien su profesi\u00f3n no tiene nada que ver con adivinar lo que suceder\u00e1. \u201cLos economistas no predecimos el futuro. La gente se meti\u00f3 en la cabeza que este es un oficio que nos hizo poseedores de la bola de cristal, pero lo que va a pasar en el futuro nadie lo sabe. Si uno pudiera predecir el futuro, ser\u00eda multimillonario y vivir\u00eda en una isla perdida del Caribe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sobre la falta de luces que entregaron los expertos para prevenir el actual momento de la econom\u00eda, el analista Mauricio Cabrera considera que esta afirmaci\u00f3n no es cierta del todo, pues s\u00ed hubo economistas que se atrevieron a formular reparos al modelo, pero que \u00e9stos no son los que tienen mayor exposici\u00f3n. \u201cLos an\u00e1lisis que salen con mayor frecuencia en los medios son los de las entidades financieras, \u00e9stas tienen un sesgo natural hacia el optimismo, porque b\u00e1sicamente est\u00e1n viendo la posibilidad de desarrollar inversiones, pero desde la academia hab\u00eda un mayor realismo y hab\u00eda m\u00e1s gente que estaba previendo la crisis. En Colombia, por ejemplo, un estudio de la Universidad Nacional en 2005 y 2006  mostr\u00f3 que \u00e9ste era un crecimiento inequitativo e insostenible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Frente al escrito de C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez, otros analistas como Alejandro Gaviria, decano de Econom\u00eda de la Universidad de Los Andes, considera que seguramente la crisis obligar\u00e1 a un replanteamiento de la macroeconom\u00eda. \u201cPero la crisis no va a reducir la influencia de los economistas. Todo lo contrario. Larry Summers (el ep\u00edtome del economista arrogante) se reencauch\u00f3 gracias a la crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>En lo que s\u00ed coinciden varios de los economistas es en lo complicado que resulta entregar proyecciones con los datos con  que se cuentan. <\/p>\n<p>El consultor y ex director del DANE, C\u00e9sar Caballero, por ejemplo, cree que se tienen escasos elementos de juicio para prever el comportamiento de la banca. \u201cEn el sector financiero mundial, y eso aplica para el colombiano, la informaci\u00f3n no es clara. Lo que pas\u00f3 es que hubo tanta desregulaci\u00f3n que no se tuvo informaci\u00f3n confiable y por eso la debacle\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>En el mismo sentido se pronunci\u00f3 Mauricio Cabrera, para quien nadie conoc\u00eda el funcionamiento de un sistema financiero a la sombra, por lo que era imposible predecir la actual crisis.<\/p>\n<p>De todos modos ironiza concluyendo: \u201cPor algo se dice que un economista se gasta la mitad de su tiempo haciendo pron\u00f3sticos y la otra mitad explicando por qu\u00e9 no se cumplieron esas proyecciones\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cesar Rodriguez&#8217; column is reviewed as a discussion of the current global economic crisis in the article &#8221; The economists crisis?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","subcategory-globalization","medium-el-espectador-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>El Espectador comments the column &quot;The Blindness of the Economists&quot; 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