Roy Cobby

Jul 30, 2023 | blogs.elconfidencial.com | Roy Cobby

La disciplina económica, como vimos en la Gran Recesión, tiene a veces la estructura de una novela de detectives. Hay un crimen o crash inesperado, un revuelo de especulación, una serie de testigos y datos más o menos fiables y una sucesión de teorías que buscan causa y causante. Los que postulan hipótesis en disputa deben sonar plausibles o retractarse, aunque a menudo el paso del tiempo revela nuevos datos que cambian las conclusiones.

Jun 24, 2023 | phenomenalworld.org | Susannah Glickman |Roy Cobby |Ella Coon

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2003. Securing the Future: Regional and National Programs to Support the Semiconductor Industry. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. ↩Author interview with Paolo Gargini February 18th, 2022.

May 8, 2023 | agendapublica.elpais.com | Roy Cobby

After pandemic and war, industrial policy has returned to Europe. The IRA has accelerated the EU’s legislative agenda (with the European Chips Act, the proposals on key raw materials, the reform of the electricity market, the Net Zero Industry Act...) and has convinced even the most reluctant that in the face of new economic, social, and environmental challenges it is necessary pursue planned, coordinated stimulation of strategic sectors.

Apr 8, 2023 | elsaltodiario.com | Roy Cobby

Es poco común que los medios de comunicación hagan auditorías para analizar su cobertura, y mucho menos en una cuestión técnica como la economía. Es precisamente lo que ha hecho la BBC a principios de este año, revelando sesgos clave que distorsionan la esfera pública. Y no hablamos aquí de los ejemplos más burdos.

Apr 5, 2023 | phenomenalworld.org | Roy Cobby |Ella Coon |Herman Schwartz

The headline “World trade war looms over microchip accord” seems like it could come from any news source today, but it in fact appeared in Nature back in February 1987, when the US had signed bilateral agreements with Japan to promote its own semiconductor exports and limit imports from the latter. European governments, in turn, were angry at what they saw as the cartelization of the global market.