terça-feira, 31 de agosto de 2010
A sociologia econômica moderna començou na Espanha
Juan de Mariana (1536-1624), a major thinker of the Spanish renaissance, was a founder of economic science. This study of his writings and legacy appeared in 1928 and has not been reprinted until now. Prof. Fr. Laures explores his thinking on value, commerce, money, entrepreneurship, labor, taxes, and more, and demonstrates that he is a major if overlooked founder of economic science and classical liberalism.
Trained in the tradition of Thomas Aquinas, Juan de Mariana made huge advances in not only economics but also in law and sociology.
He was famously jailed for going too far in his explorations of the illegitimacy of the state and what people might consider doing about it. But even in prison, he made major contributions. Tenacious, brilliant, innovative, and daring, Mariana provokes even today.
This is an essential volume for understanding the history of economic thought and the contribution of the Late Scholastics generally. Laures is thorough but critical of Mariana's more extreme conclusions, and seeks to render his thought in a way that is more politically acceptable, but that doesn't diminish the value of the exposition, which is rare and much welcome.
domingo, 29 de agosto de 2010
sexta-feira, 27 de agosto de 2010
Uma curta historia do mundo
Ordem e progresso por decentralização, propriedade particular, individualismo e expressão livre:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/raico/raico38.1.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/raico/raico38.1.html
quinta-feira, 26 de agosto de 2010
Mueller on youtube
Porque a política de "estimulo" não vai funcionar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gUGfR4b_ew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gUGfR4b_ew
Complexidade histórica
Quem foi Adolph Hitler?
"... A chromosome called Haplogroup E1b1b1 which showed up in their samples is rare in Western Europe and is most commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews.
... "One can from this postulate that Hitler was related to people whom he despised," Mr Mulders wrote in the Belgian magazine, Knack.
... It is not the first time that historians have suggested Hitler had Jewish ancestry.
His father, Alois, is thought to have been the illegitimate offspring of a maid called Maria Schickelgruber and a 19-year-old Jewish man called Frankenberger."
Leia mais sobre as raízes geneticas de Hitler
"... A chromosome called Haplogroup E1b1b1 which showed up in their samples is rare in Western Europe and is most commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews.
... "One can from this postulate that Hitler was related to people whom he despised," Mr Mulders wrote in the Belgian magazine, Knack.
... It is not the first time that historians have suggested Hitler had Jewish ancestry.
His father, Alois, is thought to have been the illegitimate offspring of a maid called Maria Schickelgruber and a 19-year-old Jewish man called Frankenberger."
Leia mais sobre as raízes geneticas de Hitler
quarta-feira, 25 de agosto de 2010
A crise da educação pública
Mr. Gatto quit as a public school teacher in order to stop harming kids. He had discovered that institutional schooling is designed to prevent the natural genius of children from emerging. Public schools impose a state of permanent incompletion to our kids, by teaching habit-training, not intellectual development. The power elite deliberately suppresses independent and critical thinking, to make us obedient citizens and consumers. Gatto, author of the best-selling Weapons of Mass Instruction, Dumbing Us Down, and The Underground History of American Education, discusses how the twenty elite boarding schools teach their students according to ancient principles, and homeschoolers and unschoolers are doing the same.
Gatto’s website
Gatto’s most recent article on LRC: The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?
Gatto’s website
Gatto’s most recent article on LRC: The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?
segunda-feira, 23 de agosto de 2010
Complexidade histórica
Hitler's Jewish Soldiers
The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military
Bryan Mark Rigg
Modern War Studies
Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-1358-8, $16.95
On the murderous road to "racial purity" Hitler encountered unexpected detours, largely due to his own crazed views and inconsistent policies regarding Jewish identity. After centuries of Jewish assimilation and intermarriage in German society, he discovered that eliminating Jews from the rest of the population was more difficult than he'd anticipated. As Bryan Mark Rigg shows in this provocative new study, nowhere was that heinous process more fraught with contradiction and confusion than in the German military.
The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military
Bryan Mark Rigg
Modern War Studies
Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-1358-8, $16.95
On the murderous road to "racial purity" Hitler encountered unexpected detours, largely due to his own crazed views and inconsistent policies regarding Jewish identity. After centuries of Jewish assimilation and intermarriage in German society, he discovered that eliminating Jews from the rest of the population was more difficult than he'd anticipated. As Bryan Mark Rigg shows in this provocative new study, nowhere was that heinous process more fraught with contradiction and confusion than in the German military.
sexta-feira, 20 de agosto de 2010
quarta-feira, 18 de agosto de 2010
Uma verdade que "incomoda"
Ludwig von Mises: "The poverty of the backward nations is due to the fact that their policies of expropriation, discriminatory taxation and foreign exchange control prevent the investment of foreign capital while their domestic policies preclude the accumulation of indigenous capital." - The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
O sentido da liberdade
George Orwell wrote, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
To again quote Orwell, "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
To again quote Orwell, "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
Propriedade intelectual e progresso econômico
Germany and Its Industrial Rise: Due to No Copyright
August 18, 2010 by Jeffrey Tucker
SHARE IT:Share Email ThisI had known that copyright killed music in Britain in the 18th and 19th century and that the absence of copyright laws in Germany had encouraged its remarkable artistic culture. I had not known that the same is true of books generally. But this article details remarkable new research showing that this was indeed the case. The author of the research in question is Eckhard Höffner and his book is Geschichte und Wesen des Urheberrechts – not available yet in English.
Quoting Spiegel:
Indeed, only 1,000 new works appeared annually in England at that time — 10 times fewer than in Germany — and this was not without consequences. Höffner believes it was the chronically weak book market that caused England, the colonial power, to fritter away its head start within the span of a century, while the underdeveloped agrarian state of Germany caught up rapidly, becoming an equally developed industrial nation by 1900.
Even more startling is the factor Höffner believes caused this development — in his view, it was none other than copyright law, which was established early in Great Britain, in 1710, that crippled the world of knowledge in the United Kingdom.
Germany, on the other hand, didn’t bother with the concept of copyright for a long time. Prussia, then by far Germany’s biggest state, introduced a copyright law in 1837, but Germany’s continued division into small states meant that it was hardly possible to enforce the law throughout the empire.
Höffner’s diligent research is the first academic work to examine the effects of the copyright over a comparatively long period of time and based on a direct comparison between two countries, and his findings have caused a stir among academics. Until now, copyright was seen as a great achievement and a guarantee for a flourishing book market. Authors are only motivated to write, runs the conventional belief, if they know their rights will be protected.
Yet a historical comparison, at least, reaches a different conclusion. Publishers in England exploited their monopoly shamelessly. New discoveries were generally published in limited editions of at most 750 copies and sold at a price that often exceeded the weekly salary of an educated worker.
London’s most prominent publishers made very good money with this system, some driving around the city in gilt carriages. Their customers were the wealthy and the nobility, and their books regarded as pure luxury goods. In the few libraries that did exist, the valuable volumes were chained to the shelves to protect them from potential thieves.
In Germany during the same period, publishers had plagiarizers — who could reprint each new publication and sell it cheaply without fear of punishment — breathing down their necks. Successful publishers were the ones who took a sophisticated approach in reaction to these copycats and devised a form of publication still common today, issuing fancy editions for their wealthy customers and low-priced paperbacks for the masses.
Comentário: Bem contra que quase todos pensam - não só no Brasil. Mas tem atualmente um forte movimento em favor abolir direitos autoriais, patentes, copyrights, etc.
August 18, 2010 by Jeffrey Tucker
SHARE IT:Share Email ThisI had known that copyright killed music in Britain in the 18th and 19th century and that the absence of copyright laws in Germany had encouraged its remarkable artistic culture. I had not known that the same is true of books generally. But this article details remarkable new research showing that this was indeed the case. The author of the research in question is Eckhard Höffner and his book is Geschichte und Wesen des Urheberrechts – not available yet in English.
Quoting Spiegel:
Indeed, only 1,000 new works appeared annually in England at that time — 10 times fewer than in Germany — and this was not without consequences. Höffner believes it was the chronically weak book market that caused England, the colonial power, to fritter away its head start within the span of a century, while the underdeveloped agrarian state of Germany caught up rapidly, becoming an equally developed industrial nation by 1900.
Even more startling is the factor Höffner believes caused this development — in his view, it was none other than copyright law, which was established early in Great Britain, in 1710, that crippled the world of knowledge in the United Kingdom.
Germany, on the other hand, didn’t bother with the concept of copyright for a long time. Prussia, then by far Germany’s biggest state, introduced a copyright law in 1837, but Germany’s continued division into small states meant that it was hardly possible to enforce the law throughout the empire.
Höffner’s diligent research is the first academic work to examine the effects of the copyright over a comparatively long period of time and based on a direct comparison between two countries, and his findings have caused a stir among academics. Until now, copyright was seen as a great achievement and a guarantee for a flourishing book market. Authors are only motivated to write, runs the conventional belief, if they know their rights will be protected.
Yet a historical comparison, at least, reaches a different conclusion. Publishers in England exploited their monopoly shamelessly. New discoveries were generally published in limited editions of at most 750 copies and sold at a price that often exceeded the weekly salary of an educated worker.
London’s most prominent publishers made very good money with this system, some driving around the city in gilt carriages. Their customers were the wealthy and the nobility, and their books regarded as pure luxury goods. In the few libraries that did exist, the valuable volumes were chained to the shelves to protect them from potential thieves.
In Germany during the same period, publishers had plagiarizers — who could reprint each new publication and sell it cheaply without fear of punishment — breathing down their necks. Successful publishers were the ones who took a sophisticated approach in reaction to these copycats and devised a form of publication still common today, issuing fancy editions for their wealthy customers and low-priced paperbacks for the masses.
Comentário: Bem contra que quase todos pensam - não só no Brasil. Mas tem atualmente um forte movimento em favor abolir direitos autoriais, patentes, copyrights, etc.
domingo, 15 de agosto de 2010
Responsabilidade social empresarial
I Congreso Virtual de RSE Ingrid Hernández, PhD., @kostcsr, Directora General de KÖST, especialista en el desarrollo de Estrategias de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial y Programas con la Cadena de Valor
sábado, 14 de agosto de 2010
Inovação e Tecnologia
23 a 24/08
I Simpósio Intern. de Inovação Tecnológica - Google Agenda!
LOCAL:Campus de São Cristóvão
HORÁRIO:Manhã e tarde
Encontram-se abertas as inscrições para o I Simpósio Internacional de Inovação Tecnológica - TEC e a II Oficina de Propriedade Intelectual da UFS, que acontecem nos dias 23 e 24 de agosto deste ano. O evento tem como público-alvo professores, pesquisadores, alunos de pós-graduação, de graduação, dirigentes das Instituições de ensino superior e de pesquisa do Estado do Sergipe e de outro estados, além de empresários da região e tem como um de seus objetivos reunir pesquisadores de diversas áreas do conhecimento na discussão de temas relevantes em Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação Tecnológica.
Para maiores informações acesse o site: http://www.cintec-ufs.net/simtec-opi ou contacte a nossa equipe através do telefone 2105 - 6865 ou pelo e-mail cintec.ufs@gmail.com
I Simpósio Intern. de Inovação Tecnológica - Google Agenda!
LOCAL:Campus de São Cristóvão
HORÁRIO:Manhã e tarde
Encontram-se abertas as inscrições para o I Simpósio Internacional de Inovação Tecnológica - TEC e a II Oficina de Propriedade Intelectual da UFS, que acontecem nos dias 23 e 24 de agosto deste ano. O evento tem como público-alvo professores, pesquisadores, alunos de pós-graduação, de graduação, dirigentes das Instituições de ensino superior e de pesquisa do Estado do Sergipe e de outro estados, além de empresários da região e tem como um de seus objetivos reunir pesquisadores de diversas áreas do conhecimento na discussão de temas relevantes em Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação Tecnológica.
Para maiores informações acesse o site: http://www.cintec-ufs.net/simtec-opi ou contacte a nossa equipe através do telefone 2105 - 6865 ou pelo e-mail cintec.ufs@gmail.com
Desenvolvimento econômico e preferência de tempo
“…. (T)he process of economic development is essentially determined by time preference… nature-given resources or technological know-how can only have an economic impact if discovered and utilized. To do his, though, there must be prior savings and investment. It is not the availability of resources and technical or scientific knowledge that imposes limits of economic advancement: rather, it is time preference that imposes limits on the exploitation of actually available resources as well as on the utilization of existing knowledge (and also on scientific progress for that matter, insofar as research activities, too, must be supported by saved-up funds).” p 151
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Theory of Employment, Money, Interest, and the Capitalist Process, in: Hans-Hermann Hoppe: The Economics and Ethics of Private Property. Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy. The Ludwig von Mises Institute: Auburn, Alabama 2006, pp. 139-174
quinta-feira, 12 de agosto de 2010
Economia da Inovação
CONVITE O CORECON/SE, através de seu presidente, Econ. José Carlos Oliveira de Sousa, tem a honra de convidar Vossa Senhoria para participar dos eventos comemorativos alusivos ao Dia do Economista, com a seguinte programação: Dias: 9 e 10/08/2010, das 8 às 12h00Curso: Economia da InovaçãoInstrutor: Prof. Laércio Matos (Assessor do ETENE/BNB)Local: Auditório do BANESEAv. Augusto Maynard, 321-São José - Aracaju/SE Dia: 12/08/2010, às 19h30Evento: Entrega da Medalha do Mérito Econômico às seguintespersonalidades: Economista Antônio César de Santana Economista Wellington de Santana Empresário Noel BarbosaPalestra: "Inovação e Desenvolvimento Territorial"Palestrante: Prof. Dr. José Cassiolato (Prof. Dr. da UFRJ)Local: Auditório do BANESEAv. Augusto Maynard, 321-São José - Aracaju/SE Data: 13/08/2010, das 9 às 17h00Evento: Tenda EconômicaLocal: Praça General Valadão-Centro - Aracaju/SE
Evento: Palestra: “Inovação e Desenvolvimento Territorial”
Palestra Inovação e Desenvolvimento Territorial, com prof. Cassiolato (UFRJ), no BANESE da Augusto Maynard, as 20 hs
o Prof. Cassiolato é coordenador nacional da Redesist, Rede de Sistemas Produtivos e Inovativos Locais, que desenvolveu o conceito de APL.
12/08/2010às 19h30
Evento: Palestra: “Inovação e Desenvolvimento Territorial”
Palestrante: Prof. Dr. José Cassiolato (UFRJ)
Local: Auditório do BANESE
terça-feira, 10 de agosto de 2010
Programa Prodoutoral
A Coordenação de Assuntos Internacionais e de Capacitação Docente e Técnico - CICADT/POSGRAP-UFS comunica que estão abertas candidaturas a bolsa do programa Prodoutoral CAPES a serem analisadas e implementadas a partir de setembro/2010.
Os certificados de seleção e os termos de compromisso dos docentes candidatos poderão ser obtidos em http://www.capes.gov.br/bolsas/bolsas-no-pais/prodoutoral (aproveite para ver as normas).
As candidaturas deverão observar o novo regulamento do Programa (Portaria CAPES nº 140, de 01 de julho de 2010), e ser entregues na CICADT até o dia 28 de agosto.
sexta-feira, 6 de agosto de 2010
Democratizando informações
CONVITE
DEMOCRATIZANDO INFORMAÇÕES
Palestra
DEMOCRATIZANDO O DESENVOLVIMENTO LOCAL
Ø Como Identificar e Mobilizar o Potenc ial de Desenvolvimento End ógeno de uma Região
Palestrante: Carlos Águedo Paiva (FEE e UNISC) Horário: 9horas
Ø Desenvolvimento Humano e Regional
Palestrante: Izete P. Bagolin (PUCRS) Horário: 10horas
Coffe Break: 10h30min
Ø Mercado de trabalho e desenvolvimento em Porto Alegre segund o a PED-RMPA (Pesquisa de Emprego e Desemprego na Região Metropolitana de Porto Alegre)
Palestrante: Eduardo Schnei der (DIEESE) Horário: 10h45min
Data: 11 de agosto de 2010
Local: Auditório da FEE - Rua Duque de Caxias, 1691
Inscr ições e Informações - Aberto ao público em geral
Site: www.observapoa.com.br Telefones: 3289-6684/6664
Realização: ObservaPOA e DIEESE Apoio: FEE
Conferencia: Economia política das organizações internacionais
The 4th Annual Conference on The Political Economy of International Organizations
January 27 – 29, 2011Call for papers:
4th Annual Conference on the
Political Economy of International Organizations
January 27-29, 2011, Zurich, Switzerland
We invite submissions for the fourth annual conference on the political economy of international organizations, to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, on January 27-29, 2011. The conference brings together economists, political scientists and other scholars to address political-economy issues related to international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the European Union, and also other international organizations that have yet received less attention in the academic literature.
Call for Papers
January 27 – 29, 2011Call for papers:
4th Annual Conference on the
Political Economy of International Organizations
January 27-29, 2011, Zurich, Switzerland
We invite submissions for the fourth annual conference on the political economy of international organizations, to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, on January 27-29, 2011. The conference brings together economists, political scientists and other scholars to address political-economy issues related to international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the European Union, and also other international organizations that have yet received less attention in the academic literature.
Call for Papers
quinta-feira, 5 de agosto de 2010
Economia da Inovação
O CORECON/SE, através de seu presidente, Econ. José Carlos Oliveira de Sousa, tem a honra de convidar Vossa Senhoria para participar dos eventos comemorativos alusivos ao Dia do Economista, com a seguinte programação:
Dias: 9 e 10/08/2010, das 8 às 12h00
Curso: Economia da Inovação
Instrutor: Prof. Laércio Matos (Assessor do ETENE/BNB)
Local: Auditório do BANESE
Av. Augusto Maynard, 321-São José – Aracaju/SE
Dia: 12/08/2010, às 19h30
Evento: Entrega da Medalha do Mérito Econômico às seguintes
personalidades:
Economista Antônio César de Santana
Economista Wellington de Santana
Empresário Noel Barbosa
Palestra: “Inovação e Desenvolvimento Territorial”
Palestrante: Prof. Dr. José Cassiolato (Prof. Dr. da UFRJ)
Local: Auditório do BANESE
Av. Augusto Maynard, 321-São José – Aracaju/SE
Data: 13/08/2010, das 9 às 17h00
Evento: Tenda Econômica
Local: Praça General Valadão-Centro – Aracaju/SE
Política industrial - política da inovação - porque não funciona
Leia no THE ECONOMIST sobre os fracassos da política industrial
quarta-feira, 4 de agosto de 2010
Análise institucional dos mercados financeiros
July 14, 2009 No Comments
This paper proposes that bubbles can be understood as being episodes of institutional logic. Or as Buffett would say driven by the “institutional imperative. ”Abstract (Via Levine & Zajac @ AeaWeb)
Financial bubbles remain a challenge for economic theory. Puzzlingly, bubbles occur not only in real-world markets, with their inherent uncertainty and noise, but also in highly controlled experimental markets, even when uncertainty is eliminated and calculating the expected returns should be a simple statistical exercise. We propose that bubbles can be understood as episodes of institutional logic. Such logic has been shown to play a pervasive role in the spread of beliefs, behavior, and practices among individuals and organizations, both in laboratory and field studies. We examine experimentally two alternative explanations for the appearance of bubbles: 1) that participants lack knowledge and eventually learn to price correctly and 2) that each participant overconfidently believes that her understanding of the situation is better than average. We find lack of support for either, and show that the appearance of bubbles is congruent with institutionalization processes, similar to those observed elsewhere in financial markets and organizations.
Excerpts (Via Levine & Zajac @ AeaWeb)
The existence of a market bubbles seems at odds with common assumptions regarding the efficiency of financial markets. Even more puzzling is the finding that bubbles occur not only in real-world markets, with their inherent uncertainty and noise, but also in highly predictable experimental markets (e.g. Vernon L. Smith et al., 1988).
Chamada de artigos
Já estão disponíveis para acesso os volumes 3 (n.2) e 4 (n.1) da revista Socitec e-prints, através do site: http://www.socitec.pro.br/.
A revista Socitec e-prints, também, convida professores e alunos de pós-graduação a enviar artigos e resenhas para a publicação de nossos próximos volumes.
A revista on-line do Grupo de Pesquisa Sociedade, Ciência e Técnica (SOCITEC) aceita artigos na área de Sociologia e áreas afins sob os seguintes temas:
- A sócio-gênese da técnica;
- Agir técnico, modernidade e racionalização;
- Novas tecnologias e suas consequências sociais;
- Filosofia da técnica;
- Antropologia da técnica;
- Técnica e ciência;
- A contingência da técnica e sociedade de risco;
- Técnica e ética;
- Desenvolvimento social e técnicas sustentáveis;
- Políticas públicas em ciência e tecnologia.
Os trabalhos serão submetidos à Comissão Editorial que avaliará seu enquadramento na linha editorial da revista, que reserva-se o direito de publicar ou não o material espontaneamente enviado à redação. Os artigos devem ser enviados para: contato@socitec.pro.br.
Africa
Mini Curso: “A constituição de uma sociologia das sociedades africanas”Professor Elísio Macamo da Universidade da Basiléia, Suíça.
Carga Horária: 20 horas - Cinco seções.
Data: 18 a 27 de agosto de 2010
Local: Programa de Pós-Graduação, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas – UFPE – 12º Andar.
Promoção: Grupo de Pesquisa Sociedade Brasileira Contemporânea e pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, com apoio da FACEPE.
segunda-feira, 2 de agosto de 2010
Tempos modernos
veja palestra (em inglês) ilustrada
A transformação do capitalismo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g&feature=player_embedded
A transformação do capitalismo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g&feature=player_embedded
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