Filipino reformers should study Nobel awardee Jean Tirole

THE works of this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Economic Science should be the subject of intense study by Filipino good governance reformers.

But we suppose these Filipino reformers would only be able to introduce what new methods and systems they learn from Jean Tirole’s works after a new president replaces Mr. Benigno S. Aquino 3rd. For as even Aquino’s adoring fans have now realized—except the deeply brainwashed true yellow believers—he is not working to reform the corrupt Philippine system but is even condoning the corrupt practices of his friends, playmates and political allies. These are, in the lingo of disgusted critics, his KKK or his “kaklase, kakampi at kabarilan.” These words mean classmates (kaklase), allies and close associates (kakampi) and target-shooting buddies (kabarilan).