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Dialogue between Ángel de la Fuente, Luis Miller, Benito Arruñada and Maite Rico

Is it our fault? How citizens' preferences are holding back Spain's reforms

The Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising, on 4 December 2025 at 7 p.m., the dialogue «Is it our fault? How citizens» preferences are holding back Spain's reforms" in which Ángel de la Fuente, Luis Miller, Benito Arruñada and Maite Rico will participate.

Angel de la Fuente is Executive Director of the Foundation for Applied Economic Studies (FEDEA). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the prize for the best doctoral thesis in 1991, and an MBA from Drexel University. After his return to Spain he joined the Institute of Economic Analysis of the CSIC, where he is a Senior Scientist on leave of absence and has been vice-director of the centre and member of the Commission of the Humanities and Social Sciences Area of the organisation. He is a research fellow at the CESIfo Institute in Munich and a member of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and has taught postgraduate courses at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and other Spanish universities. He has been executive editor of Journal of Applied Economics and senior member of the European Expert Network on the Economics of Education. De la Fuente has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the OECD, the European Commission and various Spanish administrations. In 2002 he was runner-up in the 1st Banco Herrero Foundation Prize for young researchers in the social sciences.

Luis Miller is a senior scientist at the Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos of the CSIC. He obtained his PhD in Sociology from the Complutense University and the IESA-CSIC, where he held a pre-doctoral research fellowship. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Economics (Jena) and at the Centre for Experimental Social Science at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, where he also served as deputy director. In 2011 he joined the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of the Basque Country as a permanent lecturer in microeconomics and experimental and behavioural economics. He has carried out research stays at leading institutions in six countries and three continents, including the University of Essex (UK), Indiana University (USA), the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (Switzerland), Monash University (Australia) and the Carlos III University of Madrid. His main line of research focuses on the theoretical and experimental study of the norms of equity and distributive justice. In the last decade he has analysed the relationship between socio-economic status and recognition of merit and effort, and more recently he has worked on multilateral bargaining, as well as on identity, political polarisation and trust.

Benito Arruñada is Professor of Business Organisation at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. Affiliated Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics and Research Associate at the Foundation for Applied Economic Studies (Fedea). Previously, after graduating from the universities of Oviedo and Rochester, he was Full Professor and Professor at the Universities of Oviedo and León, and John M. Olin Visiting Scholar in Law and Economics at Harvard Law School. He has occasionally taught at other universities, including Paris I, Sorbonne, Paris X, Nanterre, Singapore Management University, Frankfurt, UAM and Pablo Olavide.

Maite RicoColumnist for EL MUNDO, she has been deputy editor and founder of LA LECTURA, the newspaper's cultural magazine. She is also an analyst at Onda Cero and EsRadio. Until 2018 she was at EL PAÍS, where she was deputy editor after developing her career in the International and Opinion sections. She was a war reporter in Bosnia, Somalia and Libya, Latin America correspondent and editorialist. He then directed El País Weekly and launched the supplement Ideas. She is co-author, with Bertrand de la Grange, of the books Marcos, the brilliant imposture (Aguilar, Mexico and Madrid, 1998; and Plon, Paris, 1998), on the Zapatista uprising in the Mexican state of Chiapas, and Who killed the bishop? Autopsy of a political crime (Planeta, Mexico, 2003, and Martínez Roca, Madrid, 2005), on the assassination of the Guatemalan bishop Juan Gerardi.

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