Narració d'una asfixia premeditada. Les finances de la Generalitat de Catalunya

2011. Pròleg d'Elisenda Paluzie i Hernàndez, 162 pp.

Twenty-six years have passed by since Ramon Trias Fargas published the work that it has been re-published now. His reading wonderfully enlightens us about the negotiations for the financing of the Generalitat of Catalonia at the beginning of the autonomy: the Constitution, the Autonomy Statute of Sau and the first transfers. Written when only five years had passed since the restoration of the Generalitat, its title is premonitory. The finances of the Generalitat have indeed been the narration of a premeditated suffocation. In 2011 —in the midst of an economic crisis— with an 18% of unemployment, and with a Generalitat of Catalonia which was forced to implement very hard budgetary adjustments, we have reached the beginning of the street that Trias Fargas warned us about in a premonitory way in this book more than twenty-five years ago. This is a completely current book with a great capacity to foresee the future of the finances of the Generalitat of Catalonia.