¡Que no te engañen!

You will have come across debates like these constantly in the economic discussion that takes place in political, media and even academic forums. However, the answers that are usually given to these questions are conditioned by demagogy and ideology. Álvaro Martín and Santiago Calvo intend to fight populism in the only area in which it has practically not suffered, the economic sphere, where it continues to roam freely, both on the right and on the left.Economic populism is often disguised as disclosure, through an excessive simplification of terms, theories, models and financial understanding, to end up offering conclusions about certain phenomena that are empirically false, and whose marked ideological profile makes it seem that there is only one solution. valid for each problem.Concerned about the proliferation of economic fallacies in public debate, and as staunch defenders of the usefulness of empirical evidence for the advancement of science, these two economists strive in these pages to clear the name of Economics as a discipline from all this demagogy.Through an in-depth study of the most robust empirical evidence available for a multitude of economic issues, Martín y Calvo refute point by point, with models and practical cases, some of the main economic lies that we hear day after day.