Greve das Federais

O capitalismo de estado - problema ou solução?

Video palestra de Antony Mueller sobre
"O capitalismo de estado não é a solução - é o problema"
III Conferência de Escola Austríaca
São Paulo - Brasil
12 e 13 de maio de 2012
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Progresso tecnológico: estagnação ou aceleração?

Topic: "Accelerating or Decelerating? The Prospects for Technology and Economic Growth"
Peter Thiel, Co-founder of PayPal, Technology Entrepreneur, Investor, and Philanthropist
VS.
George Gilder, Chairman, George Gilder Fund Management, and Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute
Peter Thiel's thesis that technological progress is decelerating has been featured prominently as of late in a number of opinion journals and popular magazines, while George Gilder holds to the supremely optimistic premise of his famous 'Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology'.
Moderator: William Davidow, High-technology Executive, Venture Investor, and Author of 'Overconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet'
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A grande estagnação e o fim da inovação

Tyler Cowen on The Great Stagnation, plus debate with Michael Vassar 
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Parcerias e Co-patrocínios - Detalhes sobre essa informação

Título: Beca para IV Congreso Internacional "La Escuela Austríaca de Economía en el Siglo XXI" Autor: La Fundación Friedrich Naumann para la Libertad Data: 25/06/2012 Link: http://www.argentina.fnst.org Artigo: La Fundación Friedrich Naumann para la Libertad (Argentina) te brinda la posibilidad de poder acceder a una beca que incluye traslado y hospedaje para participar del IV Congreso Internacional "La Escuela Austríaca de Economía en el Siglo XXI" que se realizará en Rosario entre el 6 y el 8 de agosto. Tenés hasta el viernes 6 de julio para enviarnos un trabajo que trate la siguiente consigna: "¿Cómo una propuesta aplicada de la Escuela Austríaca puede solucionar un problema político, económico o social argentino?" Es válido para la redacción del trabajo tanto una propuesta concreta de un autor de la EAE, como también una interpretación del marco teórico aplicado en un tema en particular. La redacción del documento deberá tener un mínimo de cinco carillas y un máximo de diez en word (letra Times New Rowan, 12) y deberá estar dirigido en un lenguaje simple (no es necesario un formato académico) para un lector que tiene como características un interés en la política y la economía, pero un total desconocimiento de los aportes de la Escuela Austríaca, lo que requiere una mínima introducción correspondiente. Los postulantes deberán enviar el trabajo a marcelo.duclos@fnst.org hasta el viernes 6 de julio. Los ganadores serán anunciados el jueves 12 de julio en nuestra página web. ¡Mucha suerte! Más información en el link arriba

O tempo da destruição

O mito da regra da lei

THE MYTH OF THE RULE OF LAW
John Hasnas 
 In this Article, I will argue that this is a false dichotomy. Specifically, I intend to establish three points: 1) there is no such thing as a government of law and not people, 2) the belief that there is serves to maintain public support for society's power structure, and 3) the establishment of a truly free society requires the abandonment of the myth of the rule of law...
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Tecnologia do controle do compartamento humano

Palestra de Aldous Huxley em 1962 sobre "the ultimate revolution" que desenvolve e aplica tecnicas que os seres humanos aprendam amar a sua servitude. 
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Projeto de aumento dos gastos para educação

Câmara aprova Plano Nacional de Educação com destinação de 10% do PIB

Por Amanda Cieglinski, da Agência Brasil | Yahoo! Notícias  

Após 18 meses de tramitação, a Câmara aprovou o Plano Nacional de Educação (PNE). A proposta, aprovada por unanimidade, inclui uma meta de investimento de 10% do Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) em educação, a ser alcançado no prazo de dez anos...

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Saiba quando sua sociedade está condenada

Inovação no ensino da matemática

Professores inovam no ensino de matemática

Para vencer medo da disciplina, docentes tentam trazê-la para o dia a dia dos alunos

OCIMARA BALMANT - O Estado de S.Paulo

O que a matemática tem a ver com Fernando Pessoa? "Tudo!", afirma Danielle Cavallo, de 16 anos. No ano passado, quando cursava o primeiro ano do ensino médio, ela e a colega Karen Oliveira, da Escola Lourenço Castanho, redesenharam o famoso retrato do escritor português a partir de gráficos com retas, parábolas e curvas.
O resultado do trabalho, perfeito, mostrou que o software utilizado nas aulas ajudou ambas a entender as temidas funções de primeiro e segundo graus.
Exemplo de que o uso de ferramentas além da lousa e do giz ajuda os alunos a ver sentido no que aprendem e pode ser muito útil para o ensino da disciplina campeã de rejeição entre pequenos e adultos.
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Globalização e destruição criativa 1963

 Bob Dylan: North Country Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSj0sbHnVfs

Drogas - faz a conta

Machiavelli tinha razão

"It is necessary . . . [for the Prince] to be skillful in simulating and dissembling. But men are so simple, and governed so absolutely by their present needs, that he who wishes to deceive will never fail in finding willing dupes. . . . Everyone sees what you seem, but few know what you are, and these few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many who have the majesty of the State to back them up. . . . [I]f a Prince succeeds in establishing and maintaining his authority, the means will always be judged honorable and be approved by everyone. For the vulgar are always taken by appearances and by results, and the world is made up of the vulgar . . . ." -- Machiavelli, The Prince

O perigo da democracia

Democracy is widely considered to be the best political system imaginable. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that democracy has become a secular religion. The largest political faith on earth. To criticize the democratic ideal is to risk being regarded an enemy of civilized society. Yet that is precisely what Karel Beckman and Frank Karsten propose to do. In this provocative and highly readable book, they tackle the last political taboo: the idea that our salvation lies in democracy. With simple, straightforward arguments they show that democracy, in contrast to popular belief, does not lead to freedom, civilization, prosperity, peace, and the rule of law, but the opposite: to loss of freedom, social conflict, runaway government spending, a lower standard of living and the subversion of individual rights. They debunk 13 great myths with which democracy is usually defended. What is more, they offer an appealing alternative: a society based on individual freedom and voluntary social relations. Do you wonder why government keeps growing bigger and the public debt keeps getting higher, while your freedom and prosperity look ever more threatened? After reading his book, you won’t wonder anymore – you know why it is happening and what can be done about it. Beyond Democracy is a groundbreaking and fascinating book for everyone who wants to better understand current social problems and the economic crisis. More info on beyonddemocracy.net

A guerra de 1812

The War of 1812

By Jefferson Morley

"... In Foreign Policy, James Traub calls the War of 1812, the “most important war you know nothing about.”

The War of 1812 matters because it was America’s first war of choice. The United States did not have to declare war on Great Britain on June 18, 1812, to survive as a nation and indeed President James Madison did not want to. The newly founded United States was growing westward but the “war hawks” in Congress pressed for a conflict with America’s former colonial masters in the hopes of gaining even more territory to the north. The term “hawk” was coined in the run-up to the War of 1812 and the hawks of U.S. foreign policy have been with us ever since.
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Resistência contra inovação

Every Successful New Technology Has Created Panic From Those It Disrupts

from the well-said dept

Jeffrey Tucker has an all around fantastic essay on capitalists who fear change -- discussing how companies and industries in an otherwise capitalist/free market society freak out when they face competition from disruptive innovation. They go to amazing lengths to claim that it's not real competition or innovation they face, but something that must be illegal, immoral, unethical or the death of all things good and holy. The technopanics set in with alarming frequency, and in the end, they are always wrong. The end result ends up being bigger and better than ever before, even if some of those legacy players don't make it through. Tucker tells the story wonderfully:
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Que judiciário é esse?

Judiciário dificulta acesso a despesas de seus ministros

Por Equipe AE

Brasília - Um mês após entrar em vigor, a Lei de Acesso à Informação enfrenta resistência na cúpula do Judiciário. Ao mesmo tempo que prometem publicar os salários de servidores, os tribunais superiores adotam postura inversa quando se trata de divulgar gastos dos ministros com dinheiro público.

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Novas perspectivas da liberdade na era digital

"A liberdade na Era Digital" 
palestra de Jeffrey Tucker na
III Conferência de Escola Austríaca
São Paulo - Brasil
12 e 13 de maio de 2012
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Causa racional

Rational Causation [Hardcover]

Eric Marcus 

Contemporary philosophers of mind tend to explain rationality by viewing the mind as a kind of machine—the only alternative, it has seemed, to a ghostly supernatural explanation. Marcus rejects this choice as false and defends a third way—via rational causation, which draws on the theoretical and practical inferential abilities of human beings.

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Investimento em educação superior

Marx, racismo e economia de mercado entre dois campi  Por Carlos Góes

No Brasil, o investimento per capita de um aluno de educação superior é 550% aquele despendido com um estudante de Ensino Médio ou fundamental, enquanto a média da OCDE desses gastos é de 129% [3, ver grafico].

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Leitura para o tempo da greve

A greve vai provavelmente continuar para mias de um mês.
Veja aqui um lista de leitura para os próximos 30 dias:

Day 1The Task Confronting Libertarians by Henry Hazlitt

Day 2 The Fascist Threat by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Day 3 Free Economy and Social Order by Wilhelm Röpke

Day 4 The Peculiar and Unique Position of Economics by Ludwig von Mises

Day 5 What Soviet Medicine Teaches Us by Yuri Maltsev

Day 6 Economic Depressions: Their Causes and Cures by Murray Rothbard

Day 7 Is Greater Productivity a Danger? by David Gordon

Day 8 Taxation Methods Evaluated by Murray Rothbard

Day 9 Hitler Was a Keynesian by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Day 10 Seeing the Unseen by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Day 11 The Watermelon Summit by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Day 12 Inequality by Ludwig von Mises

Day 13 How to Think Like an Economist by Murray Rothbard

Day 14 The Health Plan's Devilish Principles by Murray Rothbard

Day 15 Vices Are Not Crimes by Murray Rothbard

Day 16 Repudiate the National Debt by Murray Rothbard

Day 17 The Fallacy of the 'Public Sector' by Murray Rothbard

Day 18 The Road to Totalitarianism by Henry Hazlitt

Day 19 The Many Collapses of Keynesianism by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Day 20 The Crippling Nature of Minimum Wage Laws by Murray Rothbard

Day 21 Who Owns Water by Murray Rothbard

Day 22 Defending the Slumlord by Walter Block

Day 23 The Freedom of Association by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr

Day 24 How to Help the Poor and Oppressed by Walter Block

Day 25 Everything You Love You Owe to Capitalism by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Day 26 Is There a Right To Unionize? by Walter Block

Day 27 What If Public Schools Were Abolished? by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Day 28 Why Austrian ? an interview with Robert Higgs

Day 29 Economics and Moral Courage by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Day 30 Do You Hate the State? by Murray Rothbard

Riscos ambientais imaginários

You Worry. You Should’t. Part 1: Overpopulation and Resource Exhaustion
June 19, 2012
Art Carden
Forbes

I worry too much. You do, too. And no wonder: you can’t watch the news or read a newspaper or click on a website without seeing or reading a report about something horrifying. Often, the risk as reported in the media is grossly out of proportion with the actual risk you face. Given that we have limited time and energy, there are some things people worry about that get far too much attention relative to the risks they pose. It seems like there are terrifying possibilities around every corner, and unfortunately there is an entire “industry”—government—that feeds on and fuels fear. Over the next several weeks and months, I want to consider a few things about which people spend too much time worrying. In this first installment of an occasional series, I want to consider (briefly) overpopulation and resource exhaustion. When private property rights are secure and markets are free, these shouldn’t concern us.

Diagrama de Nolan - Faça o teste

Teste do posicionamento político no diagrama de Nolan
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Libertários entre a esquerda e a direita

História da violencia

In the decade of Darfur and Iraq, and shortly after the century of Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, the claim that violence has been diminishing may seem somewhere between hallucinatory and obscene. Yet recent studies that seek to quantify the historical ebb and flow of violence point to exactly that conclusion.

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
by Steven Pinker 

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As guerras de América

História natural da inovação

The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery—these are all great ideas. But where do they come from? What kind of environment breeds them? What sparks the flash of brilliance? How do we generate the groundbreaking ideas that push forward our lives, our society, our culture? Steven Johnson’s answers are revelatory as he identifies the seven key patterns behind genuine innovation, and traces them across time and disciplines. From Darwin and Freud to the halls of Google and Apple, Johnson investigates the innovation hubs throughout modern time and pulls out applicable approaches and commonalities that seem to appear at moments of originality. What he finds gives us both an important new understanding of the roots of innovation and a set of useful strategies for cultivating our own creative breakthroughs.
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População mundial em perspectiva

Microsoft's tablet

Microsoft's new tablet  Surfacing Jun 19th 2012, 11:48 by M.G.|

On June 18th the company unveiled a new device, dubbed Surface, which it hopes will prove a formidable competitor to the wildly popular iPad. The tablet, which is likely to come to market later this year, will run Windows 8, the forthcoming version of its popular operating system. And it will boast novel features, such as an integrated kickstand that props it upright and a detachable magnetic cover that doubles as a keyboard.
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Imitar faz parte do jogo.

O governo que dá todo pode tomar todo

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. " --Thomas Jefferson

Fim da escravidão - e depois?

"The Party of Lincoln" Looked the Other Way While 1 Million Black Americans Died

Posted by Thomas DiLorenzo on June 18, 2012 06:03 AM

That's the conclusion of a new scholarly book entitled Sick from Freedom, by Connecticut College historian Jim Downs. Early reviews of the book tend to repeat the historically false and cartoonish notion that Lincoln "freed the slaves" by the stroke of a pen with an "executive order." The truth, of course, is that the Emancipation Proclamation only applied to "rebel territory" where no slaves could be freed, specifically exempted all areas, including West Virginia and numerous parishes in Louisiana that were controlled by the U.S. Army, and was defined by Lincoln as a "war measure" that would end immediately if the war ended. If the war ended the day after the Proclamation was announced, then nothing at all would have been done about slavery by the Lincoln administration. Thus, it was designed to free no one and was roundly denounced by genuine abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison. It was the Thirteenth Amendment that ended slavery in 1866. Lincoln, meanwhile, was busy plotting to deport every last black person out of the U.S. up to his dying day, as documented in another Oxford University Press book, Colonization After Emancipation by Phillip Magness and Sebastian Page.
Sick from Freedom shows that as many as 1 million of the freed slaves died from cholera or smallpox while the federal government, controlled by The Party of Lincoln for half a century after the war, did essentially nothing at all about it. Thousands of ex slaves returned to work on the plantations where they were previously enslaved because the alternative was starvation and death from disease.
The main priority of The Party of Lincoln at that time (from 1865-1890) was its war of genocide against another colored race, the Plains Indians, in order to "make way for the railroad," as General Sherman himself announced. The U.S. army, aided by ex slaves known as "Buffalo Soldiers," eventually murdered some 60,000 Plains Indians, including thousands of women and children, while putting the rest of them into concentraton camps known as "reservations."
So far, the naive and historically ignorant media, such as the New York Times, has expressed shock over the notion that this book, along with several others published in recent years, seems to challenge the "established view" that in the 1860s all Northerners were angels sent by God to take up arms to murder hundreds of thousands of barbaric Southerners solely for the benefit of black strangers in places like Mississippi and Louisiana, where almost none of them had ever been. This of course has been the defining philosophy of American imperialism ever since 1861: Resisters to the American empire, from nineteenth-century Southerners, to the Plains Indians, to turn-of-the-century Filipinos, to anyone anywhere today, are supposedly legitimate targets of extinction so that the earth can be "civilized," American style. It's called "American exceptionalism."

Propriedade intelectual em debate

Urheberrechtsdebatte Und plötzlich sind wir kriminell

Interview: Bernd Graff

Die Musikindustrie hat versagt. Das Urheberrecht ist überholt. Filesharing nicht juristisch kontrollierbar. Der Jurist und Netzaktivist Till Kreutzer sagt in der Debatte um die Zukunft des Internets Besitzstandswahrern den Kampf an.   

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Discussão crítica

"O princípio da discussão crítica de qualquer assunto nunca deve ser abandonado."
Antony Mueller

A força das idéias

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. "- Victor Hugo, Histoire d'un Crime (1852).

Brasil no voo de galinha

15/06/2012

O Brasil no voo de galinha

Não veio de surpresa que o governo brasileiro entrou em clima de pânico quando a taxa de crescimento econômico baixou a um magro 2,7 % em 2011. Não demorou muito e o governo começou programar medidas erradas. Em vez de …

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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)

Albrecht Duerer was the first German artist to become an international star in his lifetime. An exhibition in his home town of Nuremberg shows that to make it big, he needed more than talent and hard work.
Add to the mix some ruthless self-promotion and self-branding, a formidable local network, gifted teachers and role models, access to the latest printing technology, useful skills passed on by his goldsmith father, and a tabloid photographer’s eye for sensational topics to grab attention.
“Early Duerer,” the exhibition at Nuremberg’s Germanisches Nationalmuseum, contrives to be both scholarly and spectacular. It unites 120 Duerer works through loans from about 50 museums, including the Louvre in Paris and the Albertina in Vienna. Mais

A origem da moderna educação pública

The Technocratization of Public Education

Subverting educational practices

by Prof. James F. Tracy   

"... State sanctioned education in the United States has become a type of task-oriented training, quite apart from what education once involved--the cultivation of the human will and intellect. Children in most public schools today receive this type of conditioning, while the more affluent often send their offspring to private institutions or home school. What passes for education today is to a significant degree the legacy of late-nineteenth-to-early-twentieth century German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt and the Rockefeller family's philanthropic project. A professor at University of Leipzig, Wundt was the originator of what he termed a “new” or “experimental” psychology that stripped psychology of any of its potential philosophical concerns with the soul, will, or self-determination of the individual.
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Universidade para todos

Assista aos melhores cursos universitários do mundo, em português!Acreditamos que o conhecimento deve ser distribuído gratuitamente a qualquer pessoa que se disponha a aprender!
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A ciência moderna na mão do governo como inimigo da liberdade

C.S. Lewis on Threats to Freedom in Modern Society

EDWARD J. LARSON AND STEVEN LAYWARD

C.S. Lewis expressed concern about how the modern state could undermine human freedom and dignity if policymakers adopted the approach of modern social science. At the same time, Lewis also doubted the ability of any government to permanently reshape and subordinate a nation’s citizenry. Here then is what Lewis viewed as the major threats to human freedom in modern society.

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Mapa do analfabetismo

Mapa do analfabetismo no Brasil

Veja onde o analfabetismo mais caiu - e onde aumentou - a partir de dados do Censo

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Crime organizado

Ray Bradbury RIP

Ray Bradbury: "I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.… All I can do is teach people to fall in love. My advice to them is, do what you love and love what you do. Then you become free of all laws and all gravity."

Fim da greve?

União propõe mudar carreira e greve universitária pode acabar dia 19

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Em reunião feita na terça-feira à noite com representantes de sindicatos de professores que lideram o movimento grevista das universidades federais, os ministérios do Planejamento e da Educação se comprometeram a apresentar um esboço de reestruturação da carreira docente na terça-feira, dia 19. Até lá a paralisação, que já atinge mais de 80% das atividades de 50 universidades (a rede federal tem 59) e cinco institutos tecnológicos, continua, mas poderá acabar se a categoria aprovar a iniciativa do governo nesse novo encontro. A greve começou em 17 de maio.
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O capitalismo de estado brasileiro em ação

Entre o medo e a bajulação

Carlos Alberto Sardenberg, O GLOBO

Conta-se que Juscelino Kubitschek, no fim do seu governo, começou a distribuir cartórios, naquele tempo vitalícios e transmissíveis para os filhos, e, como sempre, máquinas de fazer dinheiro. No Congresso, parlamentares da velha UDN denunciavam essa farta distribuição aos amigos, quando um líder do PSD de JK respondeu: mas queriam o quê? Que distribuísse para os inimigos?

Capitalismo de amigos não é novidade, portanto. Mas temos outro tipo hoje, o do medo. Dia desses, o executivo de uma grande empresa brasileira, embora enraivecido com confusões feitas pelo Ministério da Fazenda com alíquotas de impostos, explicava por que não pretendia reclamar, muito menos brigar: os caras vão ficar muitos anos por aí.

Os caras são os do PT, claro. É verdade que o governo federal tem caras de muitos partidos, mas não há dúvida sobre quem manda. Precisa de mais uma prova?

Aqui, em dados divulgados nesta semana pela Justiça Eleitoral: no ano passado, sem eleições, o PT arrecadou nada menos que R$ 50,7 milhões com doações de empresas. Isso é 21 vezes superior à arrecadação do PSDB ...

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Kleptocracia chinesa

The Macroeconomics of Chinese kleptocracy

China is a kleptocracy of a scale never seen before in human history. This post aims to explain how this wave of theft is financed, what makes it sustainable and what will make it fail. There are several China experts I have chatted with – and many of the ideas are not original. The synthesis however is mine. Some sources do not want to be quoted.

Noticias

Macro e Microcosmos

Veja as dimensões do universo do maior ao menor

Do aborto a eutanásia

The Elite Are Attempting To Convince Us That Killing Off Our Sick Grandparents Is Cool And Trendy
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Nosso mundo também - não so na América

Começo e fim do estado de bem-estar

Terrorismo judicial

Quem governa este país?

Escrito por Heitor De Paola | 11 Junho 2012
Artigos - Governo do PT

As nações do Ocidente há muito temem a contaminação da ‘doença Americana’ – a invasão por parte dos juízes da autoridade que pertence ao povo e seus representantes eleitos. Estas nações estão aprendendo, talvez tarde demais, que este imperialismo não é uma doença Americana: é uma doença judicial que não conhece fronteiras. A moléstia aparece sempre que são dados aos juízes, ou estes se apossam do poder de reformar as decisões de outros ramos do governo – o chamado poder de revisão legal...
R.H. Bork
O Brasil se encontra numa encruzilhada que costuma ser fatal às liberdades individuais: a total confusão entre as respectivas funções dos três poderes ...

A Constituição de 1988 consagrou também o Estado Democrático de Direito. A introdução desta palavrinha deturpou totalmente o antigo e valioso conceito de Rule of Law, o império das leis, o Estado de Direito, onde governam as Leis, e não os homens.

Já Aristóteles apontava que a democracia tende a degenerar em oclocracia, termo proposto por Políbio, que significa ditadura das massas controladas por demagogos ...

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Robert H. Bork em Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges 

Guerra e paz

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Elinor Ostrom RIP

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Boettke sobre Ostrom

Instituições e (ir)racionalidade individual

Steve Horwitz explica: "... a racionalidade dos participantes do mercado não é o que importa, mas sim o contexto institucional em que agem. Em outras palavras, a racionalidade não é uma característica os indivíduos que escolhem, mas dos mercados como um todo. Mesmo que as pessoas cometam “erros” ao não agirem da forma que o modelo estrito sugere, elas receberão feedback do mercado competitivo e esse feedback mostrará os seus erros e as dará incentivos e conhecimento para corrigi-los. Aqueles que conseguem reconhecer suas predisposições e corrigi-las se darão melhor do que aqueles que não conseguem, e o mercado nos dá a possibilidade de fazer isso quando são verdadeiramente livres e competitivos. É o que Vernon Smith, vencedor do Prêmio Nobel, chama de “racionalidade ecológica”. Mesmo que os indivíduos sejam irracionais, o sistema como um todo produz resultados racionais..."
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Capitalismo de estado

Lista de Leitura

The list below will not make anyone a scholar in libertarianism or an expert in Austrian Economics, it is designed to introduce to the busy individual the essence of libertarianism. There are 30 articles listed below. If one reads one article, slowly and carefully, per day, by the end of 30 days one should have a very strong grasp of libertarian principles and a basic understanding of Austrian economics. The list contains articles on a variety of topics, but does not cover all possible libertarian topics. More than anything it provides an overview of libertarianism and how libertarians think about issues of the day. The completion of the 30 days of reading should not be considered an ending point but rather the start of the beginning of more detailed study.
Day 1 The Task Confronting Libertarians by Henry Hazlitt
Day 2 The Fascist Threat by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Day 3 Free Economy and Social Order by Wilhelm Röpke
Day 4 The Peculiar and Unique Position of Economics by Ludwig von Mises
Day 5 What Soviet Medicine Teaches Us by Yuri Maltsev
Day 6 Economic Depressions: Their Causes and Cures by Murray Rothbard
Day 7 Is Greater Productivity a Danger? by David Gordon
Day 8 Taxation Methods Evaluated by Murray Rothbard
Day 9 Hitler Was a Keynesian by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Day 10 Seeing the Unseen by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Day 11 The Watermelon Summit by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Day 12 Inequality by Ludwig von Mises
Day 13 How to Think Like an Economist by Murray Rothbard
Day 14 The Health Plan's Devilish Principles by Murray Rothbard
Day 15 Vices Are Not Crimes by Murray Rothbard
Day 16 Repudiate the National Debt by Murray Rothbard
Day 17 The Fallacy of the 'Public Sector' by Murray Rothbard
Day 18 The Road to Totalitarianism by Henry Hazlitt
Day 19 The Many Collapses of Keynesianism by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Day 20 The Crippling Nature of Minimum Wage Laws by Murray Rothbard
Day 21 Who Owns Water by Murray Rothbard
Day 22 Defending the Slumlord by Walter Block
Day 23 The Freedom of Association by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr
Day 24 How to Help the Poor and Oppressed by Walter Block
Day 25 Everything You Love You Owe to Capitalism by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Day 26 Is There a Right To Unionize? by Walter Block
Day 27 What If Public Schools Were Abolished? by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Day 28 Why Austrian? an interview with Robert Higgs
Day 29 Economics and Moral Courage by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Day 30 Do You Hate the State? by Murray Rothbard
Reprinted with permission from Economic Policy Journal.
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O outro lado da história

The European Atrocity You Never Heard About

Between 1945 and 1950, Europe witnessed the largest episode of forced migration, and perhaps the single greatest movement of population, in human history. Between 12 million and 14 million German-speaking civilians—the overwhelming majority of whom were women, old people, and children under 16—were forcibly ejected from their places of birth in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and what are today the western districts of Poland. As The New York Times noted in December 1945, the number of people the Allies proposed to transfer in just a few months was about the same as the total number of all the immigrants admitted to the United States since the beginning of the 20th century. They were deposited among the ruins of Allied-occupied Germany to fend for themselves as best they could. The number who died as a result of starvation, disease, beatings, or outright execution is unknown, but conservative estimates suggest that at least 500,000 people lost their lives in the course of the operation.
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O caminho do sucesso

Você é nada especial

You Are Not Special Commencement Speech from Wellesley High School
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1961

"Lo que marca el fracaso del comunismo no es la caída del Muro de Berlín, en 1989, sino su construcción en 1961. Era la prueba que `el socialismo real` había alcanzado un punto de descomposición tal que se veía obligado a encerrar a los que querían salir para impedirles huir”. - Jean Francois Revel

Ciência é um bem privado

Terence Kealey: “Science is a Private Good: Why Government Science is Wasteful”

June 20, 2010 by Stephan Kinsella

I recently attended at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society in Bodrum, Turkey (see my Bodrum Days and Nights: The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: A Partial Report). I delivered a speech entitled “Ideas are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property.” The speech following mine was by one Terence Kealey, a biochemist at the University of Buckingham and author of Sex, Science and Profits and The Economic Laws of Scientific Research. Kealey is a fantastic speaker and his fascinating, riveting talk, “Science is a Private Good – Or: Why Government Science is Wasteful” (video; audio), perfectly complemented my anti-IP talk–in fact his book Sex, Science and Profits has a chapter calling for the abolition of patents. (The other PFS speeches (see the Program) are being uploaded and will be linked here.)
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Source link: http://archive.mises.org/13017/terence-kealey-science-is-a-private-good-%e2%80%93-or-why-government-science-is-wasteful/

Medo como base de governar

Skye Stewart

‎"David Hume argues that all government rests on public opinion, and many others have endorsed his argument (e.g., Mises [1927] 1985, 41, 45, 50–51, 180; Rothbard [1965] 2000, 61–62), but public opinion, I maintain, is not the bedrock of government. Public opinion itself rests on something deeper and more primordial: fear. Hume recognizes that the opinions that support government receive their for...ce from “other principles,” among which he includes fear, but he considers these other principles to be “the secondary, not the original principles of government” ([1777] 1987, 34). He argues: “No man would have any reason to fear the fury of a tyrant, if he [the tyrant] had no authority over any but from fear” (34, emphasis in original). We may grant Hume’s statement yet still maintain that the government’s authority over the great mass of its subjects rests fundamentally on fear.

"Murray Rothbard considers fear briefly in his analysis of the anatomy of the state, classifying its instillment as “another successful device” by which the rulers secure from their subjects acceptance of or at least acquiescence in their domination—“[t]he present rulers, it was maintained, supply to the citizens an essential service for which they should be most grateful: protection against sporadic criminals and marauders” ([1965] 2000, 65)—but Rothbard does not view fear as the fundamental basis on which the rulers rest their domination, as I do here. Of course, as many scholars have recognized, ideology is critical in the long-term maintenance of governmental power. Yet every ideology that endows government with legitimacy requires and is infused by some kind(s) of fear. Unlike Rothbard, who views the instillment of fear as only one “device” among several by which the government retains its grip on the masses, I maintain that public fear is a necessary (though perhaps not a sufficient) condition for the viability of government as we know it.

"Jack Douglas comes closer to my own view when he observes that myths (a term he uses in roughly the same way that I use the term ideologies) “are predominantly the voice of our emotions, the images of our passionate hopes and fears, or our passionate longings and hatreds”"

Robert Higgs

A hallmark of our age is the great extent to which people are consumed by fears – of terrorism, of climate change, of environmental pollution, of inability to get medical care, of inability to get decent jobs, of psychopaths who kidnap and kill young women, of psychopaths who kidnap and kill young children, of global epidemics of untreatable diseases, of invading killer bees or other insects, of p...oisons in the drinking water, of flesh-eating infectious diseases, of drugs that make people too happy and drugs that do not make people happy enough, of . . . you name it; the list is almost endless. Yet by objective measures, people are safer now than they have ever been in human history. Although some contemporary fears may have to do with psychological developments beyond my understanding, it is obvious that modern welfare states and their media mouthpieces work ceaselessly to create new fears and to stoke existing ones, in order to create demands for the state’s eager services as a savior for all seasons.

Como identificar um político

How to spot a sociopath - 10 red flags that could save you from being swept under the influence of a charismatic nut job

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/036112_sociopaths_cults_influence.html#ixzz1xRIFGLY1

Greve prepara caminho para universidades privadas de qualidadee

Site e blog de Simon Schwartzman

A greve das universidades federais não é um evento isolado, mas parte de um processo que, infelizmente, tem tudo para acabar mal....
Se nada disto for feito, o mais provável é que as universidades federais continuem a se esgarçar, com greves sucessivas e piora nas condições de trabalho dos professores e de estudo para os alunos, abrindo espaço para que o setor privado ocupe cada vez mais o segmento de educação superior de qualidade, como ocorreu no passado com o ensino médio.
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A maioria da pesquisa "cientìfica" publicada é errada

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

John P. A. Ioannidis

Abstract

There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to no relationships among the relationships probed in each scientific field. In this framework, a research finding is less likely to be true when the studies conducted in a field are smaller; when effect sizes are smaller; when there is a greater number and lesser preselection of tested relationships; where there is greater flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes; when there is greater financial and other interest and prejudice; and when more teams are involved in a scientific field in chase of statistical significance. Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true. Moreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias. In this essay, I discuss the implications of these problems for the conduct and interpretation of research.

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Irving Fisher

God and White Men at Yale
In the 1920s, leading thinkers—including the greatest economist America ever produced—focused their efforts on eugenics, preserving the Nordic stock, and the problem of “race suicide.”
May/June 2012
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Tomar o capitalismo em sério

Why Capitalism?" asks Allan H. Meltzer, star professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and he sensibly answers: because it works. Kristol regretted the absence of a capitalist moral compass. None, really, is to be had, Mr. Meltzer says. He quotes Immanuel Kant: "Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made, nothing entirely straight can ever be carved." 

Hard work and enterprise were godly virtues, but the virtuous man, by practicing them, could hardly help getting rich. Which is when the trouble started. "Religion begot prosperity," lamented Cotton Mather, "and the daughter devoured the mother."
As time went by, statism devoured prosperity. Today the American economy sleepwalks. Ultralow interest rates starve the savers and finance the speculators. Unanchored exchange rates fire up talk of "currency wars." Where have we gone wrong, and what must we do to turn right?
Allan H. Meltzer and Luigi Zingales, free-market economics professors, have some ideas.
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A Capitalism for the People 

by Luigi Zingales

História da Escola Austríaca

Vídeo palestra de Israel Kirzner sobre a história da Escola Austríaca;Veja

Acton University

Acton University: June 12 - 15, 2012

Acton University is a unique, four-day exploration of the intellectual foundations of a free society. Guided by a distinguished, international faculty, Acton University is an opportunity to deepen your knowledge and integrate rigorous philosophy, Christian theology and sound economics.

At Acton University, you will:
Build your own curriculum. Choose from more than seventy courses ranging from the theological and philosophical, to the policy-oriented and practical.
Learn from world-class faculty. Meet leading authorities on economics, theology, public policy, globalization, the environment, and other disciplines.
Network with people from diverse backgrounds who share a concern about issues at the heart of faith and freedom.
Equip yourself to engage in the debate. Better articulate your understanding of the Judeo-Christian view of liberty and morality and its application in a free and virtuous society.
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A religião de ódio

Karl Marx and the Communist Religion of Hate

Written by Christopher C.M. Warren

I believe that Karl Marx, and his inner circle, were highly religious individuals who belonged to a death cult, call it what you will - that communism's atheism was just an anti-Christian front and that the proletariat revolution was just a pretext for robbery and murder on a grand scale.
I invite my readers to watch the following documentary which casts communism in a very interesting light. Then research the matter out further and you will be surprised by what you learn. Whatever Marxism is, whether you are religious or non-religious (it doesn't matter for the purposes of this investigation), it is very, very bad for democracy and freedom. It is bad for conservatives, liberals and social democrats alike. 
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Aumenta a repressão à liberdde de expressão no Brasil

De acordo com o Press Freedom Index de 2012, índice publicado pela Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans Frontieres), o Brasil caiu 41 posições no ranking de liberdade de imprensa, o que deixa o país na 99ª posição. Estamos atrás de países como Guatemala, Congo, Zâmbia e Quênia e a anos-luz dos primeiros colocados Finlândia, Noruega, Estônia, Holanda e Áustria.
Segundo o artigo do site, “Uma das maiores quedas na América Latina foi o Brasil, que despencou 41 posições até o 99º lugar por causa da alta incidência de violência que resultou nas mortes de três jornalistas e blogueiros.”
Repressão à liberdade de expressão caminha a passos largos no Brasil

Tabela de falácias lógicas

Fazer socialismo é fácil demais

"Eu vou implantar o comunismo no Brasil" Lula-1991

Entrevista com o ex-presidente da Polonia Lech Walesa onde o mesmo conta ao reporter algumas coisas que ele e o Lula conversaram em 1991.
Lula contou a Walesa os planos seus e do PT de implantar o socialismo no Brasil. O presidente polonês disse que fazer o comunismo a partir de um capitalismo é muito simples:
 "É como fazer sopa de peixe de um aquário. Basta aquecer a água. Não precisa nem temperar. E as plantas já estão lá dentro."
E continua:
"Fazer o contrário, o capitalismo a partir do comunismo, é como fazer um aquário. Isso é complicado. (..) Vai fazer um aquário de uma sopa de peixe...!

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O futuro do ensino superior

Sabastian Thrun:
Conventional ­university teaching is way too costly, inefficient and ­ineffective to survive for long, he contends. He wants to ­foment a teaching revolution in which the world’s best instructors conduct highly interactive online classes that let them reach 100,000 students simultaneously and globally...
“It’s pretty obvious that degrees will go away,” Thrun says. “The idea of a degree is that you spend a fixed time right after high school to educate yourself for the rest of your career. But ­careers change so much over a lifetime now that this model isn’t valid anymore.”... 
Thrun’s philosophy of online teaching involves a nonstop barrage of online quizzes, one every two to five minutes, that become the centerpieces of each lesson. “You don’t lose weight by watching someone else exercise,” he says. “You don’t learn by watching someone else solve problems. It became clear to me that the only way to do online learning effectively is to have students solve problems.”
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Os perigos do coletivismo intelectual

As universidades de Lula

O Estado de S.Paulo

Nas centenas de discursos que o presidente Lula pronunciou nos últimos meses de seu mandato, em 2010, um dos temas mais recorrentes foi a educação. Em diversas oportunidades afirmou ter criado mais universidades que o presidente Juscelino Kubitschek. Em cinco anos de governo, JK criou 10 instituições, enquanto Lula, em seus dois mandatos, criou 14, sendo 10 voltadas para a interiorização da educação superior e 4 para promover a integração regional e internacional.
Um ano e meio depois de ter deixado o governo, algumas das universidades por ele inauguradas com muita pompa, circunstância e rojão funcionam em instalações emprestadas e prédios improvisados, sem água, refeitório, biblioteca e professores em número suficiente. O câmpus da Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp) em Guarulhos é uma boa amostra do tipo de instituições de ensino erguidas pelo presidente "recordista" com a preocupação precípua de "mostrar serviço".
O acesso ao câmpus é difícil e não há ônibus suficientes. As salas de aula são abafadas. O refeitório funciona num galpão de madeira. Cerca de 30 mil livros destinados à biblioteca continuam encaixotados. A biblioteca tem 240 mil livros mas, como não há lugar onde colocá-los, só 70% do acervo pode ser consultado. Por falta de infraestrutura, o laboratório de informática não tem como ser ampliado. A demora para se tirar uma fotocópia é de 40 minutos, em média. E quando os 50 computadores são operados simultaneamente, a velocidade da internet cai.
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Manifesto Libertário

O Manifesto Libertário: apresentação ao leitor brasileiro

Por Diogo Costa

Não existe liberalismo econômico na política brasileira. Lá se foram 25 anos do nosso período democrático sem que partido algum se apresentasse como defensor da plena economia de mercado. O vácuo intelectual levou a revista britânica The Economist a perguntar: “Por que o liberalismo econômico é um tabu tão grande no Brasil socialmente liberal?”.

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Universidade em crise

Realidade intelectual em crise: trajetória e restauração
Palestra proferida no dia 18 de maio de 2012 na Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais da Unesp - Campus de Franca.
Palestra com o Prof. Ricardo da Costa, da Ufes
Resumo: Nesse início do século XXI no Brasil, o mundo acadêmico das Ciências Humanas vive uma grave crise. Apesar da notável expansão dos cursos de pós-graduação há, definitivamente, não só uma crise de paradigmas, mas, sobretudo uma crise ética, crise de valores, crise de Humanismo. Aquele crescimento não foi acompanhado pela qualidade necessária, pelos padrões éticos universais. Alunos que não sabem escrever, que mal sabem se expressar, professores que não orientam: o mundo universitário sangra a olhos vistos. O nascedouro desse vírus remonta à solução de um dos ideólogos do regime militar (1964-1985), Golbery do Couto e Silva (1911-1987), apelidado de O Bruxo, para a cultura brasileira -- e para a Universidade de um modo específico: a chamada "teoria da panela de pressão". Somado a isso, a adoção da Pedagogia do Oprimido de Paulo Freire (1921-1997) por parte dos cursos de Humanas terminou com a devastação cultural que vigora hoje em nossa realidade intelectual. Qual a solução para essa crise? Quais parâmetros devemos adotar? Para onde devemos direcionar nossa reconstrução? A proposta dessa palestra é narrar a história dessa crise e apresentar como única solução possível o retorno aos clássicos, ao mundo clássico e medieval, ao universo da tradição que moldou o Ocidente.
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Diversidade perversa

A perversidade da diversidade

por Walter Williams,

As expressões 'ação afirmativa', 'representação paritária', 'tratamento preferencial' e 'cotas raciais' não possuem grande apelo entre a população. Sabendo disso, a elite intelectual, a mídia, o governo e todos os demais entusiastas criaram o termo 'diversidade', uma palavra aparentemente benigna que funciona muito bem para encobrir políticas racialmente discriminatórias. Via de regra, tais políticas exigem que as universidades, as empresas privadas e as burocracias do governo formem seus quadros de acordo com a proporção de cores e etnias existentes no país. Mais