El tabú distributivo

Abstract

Resumen En el tabu distributivo se intentan explicar las modalidades principales de las politicas publicas para atender una gran diversidad de problemas y objetivos sin mover o moviendo al minimo el reparto consagrado del producto. Sin duda, es muy alta la sensibilidad politica de las elites economicas, frente a las alteraciones distributivas que pudiesen afectarlas desfavorablemente. Mayor tolerancia suele encontrarse a movimientos de signo contrario hasta que su acumulacion ocasiona tensiones insostenibles. La neutralidad distributiva directa del gasto o los deficit publicos, de las estrategias exportadoras o del credito a las familias, han sido los principales expedientes utilizados a ese proposito. En el futuro, el uso de esos mecanismos muestra trabas o senales de agotamiento. Poco a poco tendran que ser sustituidos por politicas distributivas explicitas de mayor contenido democratico. Abstract The distributive taboo is trying to explain the main modalities of public policies to address a diversity of problems and objectives without moving to a minimum the product sharing. The political sensitivity of the economic elites, against the distributional changes that could adversely affect is certainly very high. Greater tolerance is often found to opposite movements until their accumulation causes unbearable strains. The distributive neutrality of spending or public deficits, export strategies or family credits, have been the main policies used to that purpose. In the future, the use of these mechanisms encounters obstacles or signs of exhaustion. Little by little they will have to be replaced by explicit distributional policies of greater democratic content.