Luis Pablo de la Horra

Luis Pablo de la Horra is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Valladolid.

Articles

Economics

Why the world needs more immigration

In his classic work, The Myth of the Rational Voter, Bryan Caplan identifies four systematic biases about economics held by the average citizen:  make-work bias (an inclination to overestimate the disadvantages of temporary job destruction due to productivity increases), anti-market bias (a tendency to overlook the benefits of the market as a coordination mechanism), pessimistic […]

Ideas

Globalisation gives us reasons to be cheerful

In 2015, YouGov, an international market research firm, conducted a poll on the state of the world, in which 71 per cent of respondents said they were convinced that the world was becoming a worse place, and only 5 per cent thought that living standards were improving across the world. No matter how you measure […]