"Knowledge is about the past; entrepreneurship is about the future."
George Gilder
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sexta-feira, 31 de agosto de 2012
quinta-feira, 30 de agosto de 2012
Necessidade
"La necesidad es el pretexto para todos los atentados contra la libertad individual. Es el argumento de los tiranos. Es el credo de los esclavos." - William Pitt
Quem puder foge do paraíso socialista
Filha do vice-presidente de Cuba, Glenda Diaz desertou para os Estados Unidos
Cuba libre – A filha do vice-presidente de Cuba desertou para os Estados Unidos e vive agora em Tampa, no estado da Florida, informou na segunda-feira (27) o jornal norte-americano “El Nuevo Herald”, versão em espanhol do “Miami Herald”.Mais
O estado - uma coisa do passado
Isaac M. Morehouse "Fast or slow, big or small, conscious or unconscious as it may be, the world will change. The state can be a relic of the past, harder to understand as time moves on, like slavery in America today. In so many ways the trend is well underway and we are already in a mostly stateless world, though it is little appreciated or understood. It may be a matter of merely realizing what is already true: the state is not, and never has been necessary." http://lfb.org/today/
Chamada de artigos LASA
Call for papers for LASA 2013
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quarta-feira, 29 de agosto de 2012
Sofrer por nada
Low-Calorie Diets Don’t Help Lifespan, Monkey Study Shows
By Elizabeth Lopatto - Aug 29, 2012
Monkeys fed a severely low-calorie diet didn’t live longer than their normal-diet peers, a 23-year study showed, contradicting research that suggests living thin on greatly curtailed food intake extends lifespans.
The study by researchers from the National Institute on Aging sought to address whether diet restrictions had health benefits in rhesus monkeys, long-lived primates like people, thus rendering clues about human aging. Though the thin monkeys seemed healthier by some measures, calorie restriction failed to alter either cause of death or survival, the research showed.
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The study by researchers from the National Institute on Aging sought to address whether diet restrictions had health benefits in rhesus monkeys, long-lived primates like people, thus rendering clues about human aging. Though the thin monkeys seemed healthier by some measures, calorie restriction failed to alter either cause of death or survival, the research showed.
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Lei de patentes na crítica
American law is patent nonsense
By Sebastian Mallaby
The poster child for patents is the pharmaceuticals industry. But, as Richard Posner, a federal appeals court judge, has argued, what works in this sector is not necessarily appropriate in communications, software or elsewhere. Bringing a new drug to market is inordinately expensive, mainly because of the need for large clinical trials. Monopoly rights over new drugs provide a needed spur to invention. And because trials take as long as a decade, the 20-year exclusivity typically granted can mean only 10 years of monopoly profits.
The technology industry is different. No clinical trials are needed, so costs of development are lower and the case for monopoly weaker.
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Strikes End Except for Federal Police
By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter"... At a time when Brazil’s economy has slowed significantly there is little enthusiasm in government for broad wage hikes, especially for a public sector that many say is too large, and already enjoys significantly more benefits and job security than the private sector.
“Any agreement should include a reform of the public sector,” said Anthony Mueller, a professor of economics at the Federal University of Sergipe. “The Brazilian public sector must be drastically reduced in order to save expenditure.”
With her own deadline looming on Friday, when President Rousseff must set the 2013 federal budget, some say that miscalculations on both sides have escalated a wage dispute into the greatest challenge that Rousseff’s nineteen-month old presidency has yet faced.
“The government made the error of not rapidly and forcefully responding to the demands,” said Professor Mueller. “The leaders of the strike miscalculated the resolve of the government to keep the budget deficit down.”
“In the end both sides lost,” he added. “Yet most of all it was Brazil that lost.”
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terça-feira, 28 de agosto de 2012
Lições de inovação para o ensino médio
Ensino Médio
Lições de inovação
Como escolas públicas brasileiras conseguiram envolver os pais nas tarefas escolares, mesmo quando não tinham repertório para isso, e melhoraram o desempenho de seus alunos.
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UFPE continua greve
Após assembleia, professores da UFPE decidem continuar paralisação
Apesar de iniciado em 17 de maio, movimento tem aumento de adesão.
Calendário do Vestibular 2013 será mantido, de acordo com a Covest.
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Há mais de três meses em greve, os professores da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) decidiram continuar com a paralisação, após assembleia realizada na tarde desta segunda-feira (27), no auditório do Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas (CCSA), Campus do Recife. De acordo com o presidente da Associação dos Docentes da UFPE (Adufepe), cerca de 300 professores estiveram presentes na reunião. Destes, 196 votaram a favor da continuação da greve, iniciada em 17 de maio. Apenas 42 docentes votaram contra a decisão.
Capitalismo de estado em crise
"O capitalismo de estado é o problema, solusolução" - Antony Mueller
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The Dialectic of Destruction
"... Marx and his followers have never demonstrated any awareness of the vital importance of the problem of allocation of scarce resources. Their vision of communism is that all such economic problems are trivial, requiring neither entrepreneurship nor a price system nor genuine economic calculation – that all problems could be quickly solved by mere accounting or recording. The classic absurdity on this matter was laid down by Lenin, who accurately expressed Marx's view in declaring that the functions of entrepreneurship and of allocation of resources have been "simplified by capitalism to the utmost" to mere matters of accounting and to "the extraordinarily simple operations of watching, recording, and issuing receipts, within the reach of anybody who can read and write and knows the first four rules of arithmetic." Ludwig von Mises wryly and justly comments that Marxists and other socialists have had "no greater perception of the essentials of economic life than the errand boy, whose only idea of the work of the entrepreneur is that he covers pieces of paper with letters and figures."Mais
segunda-feira, 27 de agosto de 2012
Vida
"Se vives de acordo com as leis da natureza, nunca serás pobre; se vives de acordo com as opiniões alheias, nunca serás rico".
Sêneca
Sêneca
Nassim Taleb
His book The Bed of Procrustes summarizes the central problem: "we humans, facing limits of knowledge, and things we do not observe, the unseen and the unknown, resolve the tension by squeezing life and the world into crisp commoditized ideas". Taleb disagrees with Platonic (i.e., theoretical) approaches to reality to the extent that they lead people to have the wrong map of reality rather than no map at all.[16] He opposes most economic and grand social science theorizing, which in his view suffer acutely from the problem of overuse of Plato's Theory of Forms.
Relatedly, he also believes that universities are better at public relations and claiming credit than generating knowledge. He argues that knowledge and technology are usually generated by what he calls "stochastic tinkering" rather than by top-down directed research.[23][47][48][49]
He calls for cancellation of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, saying that the damage from economic theories can be devastating.[50][51] He opposes top-down knowledge as an academic illusion and believes that price formation obeys an organic process.[52] Together with Espen Gaarder Haug, Taleb asserts that option pricing is determined in a "heuristic way" by operators, not by a model, and that models are "lecturing birds on how to fly".[52] Pablo Triana has explored this topic with reference to Haug and Taleb,[53][54] and says that perhaps Taleb is correct to urge that banks be treated as utilities forbidden to take potentially lethal risks, while hedge funds and other unregulated entities should be able to do what they want.[55]
Taleb's writings discuss the error of comparing real-world randomness with the "structured randomness" in quantum physics where probabilities are remarkably computable and games of chance like casinos where probabilities are artificially built.[34] Taleb calls this the "Ludic fallacy". His argument centers on the idea that predictive models are based on Plato's Theory of Forms, gravitating towards mathematical purity and failing to take some key ideas into account, such as: the impossibility of possessing all relevant information, that small unknown variations in the data can have a huge impact, and flawed theories/models that are based on empirical data and that fail to consider events that have not taken place but could have taken place. Discussing the Ludic fallacy in The Black Swan, he writes, "The dark side of the moon is harder to see; beaming light on it costs energy. In the same way, beaming light on the unseen is costly in both computational and mental effort."
In the second edition of The Black Swan, he posited that the foundations of quantitative economics are faulty and highly self-referential. He states that statistics is fundamentally incomplete as a field as it cannot predict the risk of rare events, a problem that is acute in proportion to the rarity of these events. With the mathematician Raphael Douady, he called the problem statistical undecidability (Douady and Taleb, 2010).
Taleb sees his main challenge as mapping his ideas of "robustification" and "anti-fragility", that is, how to live and act in a world we do not understand and build robustness to black swan events. Taleb introduced the idea of the "fourth quadrant". One of its applications is in his definition of the most effective (that is, least fragile) risk management approach: what he calls the 'barbell' strategy which is based on avoiding the middle in favor of linear combination of extremes, across all domains from politics to economics to one's personal life. These are deemed more robust to estimation errors. For instance, he suggests that investing money in 'medium risk' investments is pointless because risk is difficult if not impossible to compute. His preferred strategy is to be both hyper-conservative and hyper-aggressive at the same time. For example, an investor might put 80 to 90% of their money in extremely safe instruments, such as treasury bills, with the remainder going into highly risky and diversified speculative bets. An alternative suggestion is to engage in highly speculative bets that are insured against losses of more than a specified amount. He asserts that by adopting these strategies a portfolio can be "robust", that is, gain a positive exposure to black swan events while limiting losses suffered by such random events.[56] Taleb also applies a similar barbell-style approach to health and exercise. Instead of doing steady and moderate exercise daily, he suggests that it is better to do a low-effort exercise such as walking slowly most of the time, while occasionally expending extreme effort. He avers that the human body evolved to live in a random environment, with various unexpected but intense efforts and much rest.[57]
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Relatedly, he also believes that universities are better at public relations and claiming credit than generating knowledge. He argues that knowledge and technology are usually generated by what he calls "stochastic tinkering" rather than by top-down directed research.[23][47][48][49]
He calls for cancellation of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, saying that the damage from economic theories can be devastating.[50][51] He opposes top-down knowledge as an academic illusion and believes that price formation obeys an organic process.[52] Together with Espen Gaarder Haug, Taleb asserts that option pricing is determined in a "heuristic way" by operators, not by a model, and that models are "lecturing birds on how to fly".[52] Pablo Triana has explored this topic with reference to Haug and Taleb,[53][54] and says that perhaps Taleb is correct to urge that banks be treated as utilities forbidden to take potentially lethal risks, while hedge funds and other unregulated entities should be able to do what they want.[55]
Taleb's writings discuss the error of comparing real-world randomness with the "structured randomness" in quantum physics where probabilities are remarkably computable and games of chance like casinos where probabilities are artificially built.[34] Taleb calls this the "Ludic fallacy". His argument centers on the idea that predictive models are based on Plato's Theory of Forms, gravitating towards mathematical purity and failing to take some key ideas into account, such as: the impossibility of possessing all relevant information, that small unknown variations in the data can have a huge impact, and flawed theories/models that are based on empirical data and that fail to consider events that have not taken place but could have taken place. Discussing the Ludic fallacy in The Black Swan, he writes, "The dark side of the moon is harder to see; beaming light on it costs energy. In the same way, beaming light on the unseen is costly in both computational and mental effort."
In the second edition of The Black Swan, he posited that the foundations of quantitative economics are faulty and highly self-referential. He states that statistics is fundamentally incomplete as a field as it cannot predict the risk of rare events, a problem that is acute in proportion to the rarity of these events. With the mathematician Raphael Douady, he called the problem statistical undecidability (Douady and Taleb, 2010).
Taleb sees his main challenge as mapping his ideas of "robustification" and "anti-fragility", that is, how to live and act in a world we do not understand and build robustness to black swan events. Taleb introduced the idea of the "fourth quadrant". One of its applications is in his definition of the most effective (that is, least fragile) risk management approach: what he calls the 'barbell' strategy which is based on avoiding the middle in favor of linear combination of extremes, across all domains from politics to economics to one's personal life. These are deemed more robust to estimation errors. For instance, he suggests that investing money in 'medium risk' investments is pointless because risk is difficult if not impossible to compute. His preferred strategy is to be both hyper-conservative and hyper-aggressive at the same time. For example, an investor might put 80 to 90% of their money in extremely safe instruments, such as treasury bills, with the remainder going into highly risky and diversified speculative bets. An alternative suggestion is to engage in highly speculative bets that are insured against losses of more than a specified amount. He asserts that by adopting these strategies a portfolio can be "robust", that is, gain a positive exposure to black swan events while limiting losses suffered by such random events.[56] Taleb also applies a similar barbell-style approach to health and exercise. Instead of doing steady and moderate exercise daily, he suggests that it is better to do a low-effort exercise such as walking slowly most of the time, while occasionally expending extreme effort. He avers that the human body evolved to live in a random environment, with various unexpected but intense efforts and much rest.[57]
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Oportunidade para grupos estudantis
A Atlas Network acaba de lançar uma grande oportunidade para estudantes internacionais: o programa de grants para grupos estudantis, restrito a organizações de fora dos Estados Unidos .
Grupos como think tanks também podem concorrer, contanto que possuam programas diretamente focados em estudantes universitários. A maioria dos grants é de menos de US$5.000, mas projetos mais ambiciosos podem ser enviados.
Para inscrever o seu grupo ou organização, preencha o formulário aqui (em inglês). Para mais informações visite a página do programa da Atlas Network.
Perguntas podem ser enviadas para Elisa.Martins@AtlasNetwork.org.
Grupos como think tanks também podem concorrer, contanto que possuam programas diretamente focados em estudantes universitários. A maioria dos grants é de menos de US$5.000, mas projetos mais ambiciosos podem ser enviados.
Para inscrever o seu grupo ou organização, preencha o formulário aqui (em inglês). Para mais informações visite a página do programa da Atlas Network.
Perguntas podem ser enviadas para Elisa.Martins@AtlasNetwork.org.
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Pessoal, uma amiga minha criou um projeto social pró-mercado na Indonésia, que ajuda a levar energia para populações rurais. As mulheres da comunidade viram revendedoras de lâmpadas solares portáteis, e são treinadas em vendas, marketing, contabilidade, etc.. O projeto - "Project Light" - está concorrendo a um prêmio e precisa ser votado. Para votar e conhecer mais, segue o link:
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domingo, 26 de agosto de 2012
Hayek estrela em Tampa
It’s the Economy
Prime Time for Paul Ryan’s Guru (the One Who’s Not Ayn Rand
"... Hayek’s ideas aren’t completely new to American politics. Some mainstream Republicans, including Ronald Reagan, have name-checked him since at least the 1980s as a shorthand way of signaling their unfettered faith in the free market and objection to big government. But few actually engaged with Hayek’s many contentious (and outré) views, particularly his suspicion of all politicians, including Republicans, who claim to know something about how to make an economy function better. For these reasons, and others, Hayek has become fashionable of late among antigovernment protesters, and if Ryan brings even a watered-down version of his ideas into the Republican mainstream, the country’s biggest battles about the economy won’t be between right and left, but within the Republican Party itself — between Tea Party radicals who may feel legitimized and the establishment politicians they believe stand in their way.
For the past century, nearly every economic theory in the world has emerged from a broad tradition known as neoclassical economics. (Even communism can be seen as a neoclassical critique.) Neoclassicists can be left-wing or right-wing, but they share a set of crucial core beliefs, namely that it is useful to look for government policies that can improve the economy. Hayek and the rest of his ilk — known as the Austrian School — reject this. To an Austrian, the economy is incomprehensibly complex and constantly changing; and technocrats and politicians who claim to have figured out how to use government are deluded or self-interested or worse. According to Hayek, government intervention in the free market, like targeted tax cuts, can only make things worse...."
O fracasso do ensino tradicional
Tempo gastado, educção ruim. Decorar não é aprender e aprender ainda não é entender
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Professor da Unicamp contesta o ensino tradicional
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O professor da Unicamp, Rubem Alves, disse em entrevista ao Globo News Dossiê, que grande parte do que os alunos estudam para o vestibular é inútil. Para ele, o papel do professor não é passar conhecimentos, e sim, provocar a inteligência do aluno.
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sábado, 25 de agosto de 2012
Desigualdade e educação
Para combater a desigualdade, o caminho é a educação básica, não a reserva de vagas em universidades
O critério racial fere a isonomia. Que os militantes da causa negra não se iludam: projeto das cotas não passa de cortina de fumaça
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Como as escolas públicas destroem o cristianismo na América (e em outros lugares)
Ever since the Federal Department of Education was created by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, the quality of education in America has declined, and America came behind most of the industrial world in math and science. The Federal Department...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bh959i2Dcc
of Education is an insult to the American people, for it is built on the idea that we are too dumb to manage our education system without the help of a government bureaucracy, even though we did fine without it during the first two hundred years of American History. Before the federal government got involved in education, those who could not afford a college education became apprentices. Education should be managed at the local level, not the federal or even the state levels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bh959i2Dcc
Como baixar de peso
Debunking the Hunter-Gatherer Workout
All of this means that if we want to end obesity, we need to focus on our diet and reduce the number of calories we eat, particularly the sugars our primate brains have evolved to love. We’re getting fat because we eat too much, not because we’re sedentary. Physical activity is very important for maintaining physical and mental health, but we aren’t going to Jazzercise our way out of the obesity epidemic.
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All of this means that if we want to end obesity, we need to focus on our diet and reduce the number of calories we eat, particularly the sugars our primate brains have evolved to love. We’re getting fat because we eat too much, not because we’re sedentary. Physical activity is very important for maintaining physical and mental health, but we aren’t going to Jazzercise our way out of the obesity epidemic.
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Guerra
"War is a primitive human institution. From time immemorial, men were eager to fight, to kill, and to rob one another. However, the acknowledgment of this fact does not lead to the conclusion that war is an indispensable form of interpersonal relations and that the endeavors to abolish war are against nature and therefore doomed to failure." -- Ludwig von Mises
O estado do mundo
Robert Higgs explica:
The greatest problem mankind faces in the present world consists in the conjunction of these conditions: (1) people virtually everywhere on earth have political rulers; (2) these rulers are more or less, depending on the particular case, homicidal sociopaths and psychopaths; (3) these rulers now possess either weapons of mass destruction or the capability of creating such weapons; (4) the likelihood that they will never use such weapons is very small; and (5) when these weapons are used on a large scale, civilization -- and perhaps the human race itself -- will be destroyed. In short, the nightmare in which the human race now finds itself trapped emerges from the existence of the modern, technologically advanced state. Each day that passes without utter catastrophe is almost a miracle. But the probability of a long succession of such days is vanishingly small. Do the math.
Reforma da escola pública na América
A Formação Moral e o Movimento pela Liberdade de Escolha Escolar
Ray Nothstine
A batalha nos Estados Unidos por uma reforma significativa na educação pública tem sido um longo e demorado processo, que abrange décadas. No entanto, as administrações estaduais, não o governo federal, estão mudando o rumo das coisas.Mais
quinta-feira, 23 de agosto de 2012
Advogados gostam de propriedade intelectual
Apple Patent Battles Create Lawyer Boon at $1,200 an Hour
By Susan Decker -
Aug 23, 2012 5:00 PM GMT-0300
Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. has spent at least $32 million in one patent-infringement dispute with Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Motorola Mobility unit -- one among many legal fights on four continents.
Add
them up and it’s clear the Cupertino, California-based company is
paying hundreds of millions of dollars in its quest to prove that Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), Motorola Mobility and HTC Corp. ripped off the iPhone.
Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) --
General Patent Corp Vice President Richard Ehrlickman weighs Apple and
Samsung's patent claims. He speaks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg
Television's "Bottom Line." (Source: Bloomberg)
Apple contends devices using
Google’s Android operating system copy features that make the iPhone and
iPad tablet computer unique, and is fighting counterclaims it uses
other companies’ inventions. Photographer: Tim Boyle/Bloomberg
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Arrogância (intelectual)
“A única coisa mais perigosa do que a ignorância é a arrogância” (Albert Einstein).
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Hayek: A pretensão do conhecimento
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Hayek: A pretensão do conhecimento
A doença da medicina moderna
"Medicine is not health care; it is sick care. And when you take sick care and provide it through a culture like health care, then you end up with a sick culture."
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quarta-feira, 22 de agosto de 2012
Brasil pecisa uma revolução nos gastos
Brasil precisa de uma revolução no uso dos gastos públicos em educação, diz Maílson
Maílson da Nóbrega
É bem-intencionado o aumento dos gastos públicos em educação para 10% do PIB, aprovado em comissão especial da Câmara. Mas é também um enorme equívoco. Não quebrará o país, como se disse, mas vai exigir maior carga tributária (a margem para novas despesas é ínfima) e pode reduzir o potencial de crescimento. Ou seja, menos emprego, menos renda e menos bem-estar, ao contrário do que parece.Não é o volume de gastos que melhora a educação. O Brasil já despende 5,1% do PIB na área, enquanto é de 4,8% a média dos países-membros da Organização para a Cooperação e o Desenvolvimento Econômico (OCDE), quase todos muito ricos. Segundo as Nações Unidas/Unesco, nossos gastos superam, como proporção do PIB, os de Japão (3,3%), Alemanha (4%), Coreia do Sul (4,5%) e Canadá (4,6%). Mesmo assim, no último teste conduzido pela OCDE/Pisa, ficamos em 53º lugar entre 65 países em leitura, matemática e ciência. À nossa frente estão Colômbia, México, Uruguai, Chile, Tailândia, Turquia e outros países emergentes. A China (Xangai) ficou em primeiro lugar nas três matérias.
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Que falta para melhor a educação no Brasil?
Entrevista com João Batista Araujo e Oliveira
Sobram pedagogos e faltam gestores, diz especialista
Em entrevista a VEJA, o educador João Batista Araujo e Oliveira diz que o Brasil necessita de redes de ensino fundamental eficientes, não de ilhas de excelência, e anuncia um prêmio para os prefeitos que avançarem nesse objetivo
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Dilma
Dilam eleita 3. mais poderosa mulher do mundo.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forbes magazine ranked German Chancellor Angela Merkel
the most powerful woman in the world for the second year in a row in
the annual list dominated by politicians, businesswomen and media
figures.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton placed second, followed by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, making the top three spots unchanged from last year.Mais
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terça-feira, 21 de agosto de 2012
Escola ruim - causa são os pais
So, where’s the group in the U.S. that could try harder? Is it the
teachers, more concerned with their tenure and pension rights than
actually teaching kids? Is it miserly federal and state lawmakers,
starving their educators of resources? Or maybe it is the lackadaisical
students, too addicted to questing with their avatar through World of
Warcraft to think about algebra?
The answer, it turns out, is none of the above. If there’s a crisis in U.S. education, the fault lies with a group more accustomed to leveling blame than receiving it: parents.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-19/the-real-reason-americas-schools-stink
The answer, it turns out, is none of the above. If there’s a crisis in U.S. education, the fault lies with a group more accustomed to leveling blame than receiving it: parents.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-19/the-real-reason-americas-schools-stink
O país da liberdade cai cada vez mais na ditadura
Amerika’s Future Is Death
by Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
"... A gullible population is
helpless if government decides to enslave the people. It is child’s play for
government to discredit a people’s natural leaders and those who provide the
people with accurate information. Most Americans have a very small knowledge
base and very large ideological preconceptions. Consequently, they cannot tell
fiction from fact.PaulCraigRoberts.org
It was like Dominique Strauss-Kahn all over again. Falsely accused of sexually assaulting a New York hotel maid, the Director of the International Monetary Fund, chased on two continents by celebrity-hunting women, was knocked out of the race for the French presidency and had to resign his IMF position. The New York police, trained by decades of feminist propaganda to regard every sex charge brought by a women as the absolute truth, were made to look foolish and incompetent when clear evidence emerged that the charge was fabricated in order to extract money from Strauss-Kahn and possibly in order to knock him out of contention for the French presidency..."
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Sociologia da encarcerarão
Vídeo educativo sobre encarceração
The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world—more even than China or Russia. Prof. Daniel J. D'Amico explains that as of 2010 more than 1.6 million people were serving jail sentences in America. Professor D'Amico suggests that "prisons are not what we think about when we think of America, and they shouldn't have to be." According to D'Amico, a free country should not have 1.6 million people in prison, and a fiscally responsible country cannot afford to. As Prof. D'Amico points out, it is time for Americans to recognize that the U.S. criminal justice system is desperately in need of reform.
Learn More: 1. "The Caging of America" [article]: Wide ranging New Yorker piece, discusses history, ethics, everyday prisoner experience. Explores a few theories as to why our prison system is the way it is. http://nyr.kr/OGTXrd 2. "The Business Ethics of Incarceration: The Moral Implications of Treating Prisons Like Businesses" [scholarly article]: Professor D'Amico addresses the economics and morality of prison and prison privatization. http://bit.ly/OsMQFD 3. "U.S. prison population dwarfs that of other nations" [article]: New York Times article focusing on America's disproportionate prison population.
http://nyti.ms/QSVprm 4. "Prisoners' Poetry" [poems]: A website featuring poems written by prisoners. http://bit.ly/Sd93to
Discussion Questions: 1. What are the causes for the unusually high incarceration rate in the United States? 2. Do you think prisons are an effective way of handling crime? 3. What alternatives or reforms to the current prison system can you imagine for handling crime more effectively?
Veja também
The Prison in Economics: Private and Public Incarceration in Ancient Greece,
http://www.danieljdamico.com/
The Imprisoner's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Proportionate Punishment,
http://digilib.gmu.edu:8080/
The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world—more even than China or Russia. Prof. Daniel J. D'Amico explains that as of 2010 more than 1.6 million people were serving jail sentences in America. Professor D'Amico suggests that "prisons are not what we think about when we think of America, and they shouldn't have to be." According to D'Amico, a free country should not have 1.6 million people in prison, and a fiscally responsible country cannot afford to. As Prof. D'Amico points out, it is time for Americans to recognize that the U.S. criminal justice system is desperately in need of reform.
Learn More: 1. "The Caging of America" [article]: Wide ranging New Yorker piece, discusses history, ethics, everyday prisoner experience. Explores a few theories as to why our prison system is the way it is. http://nyr.kr/OGTXrd 2. "The Business Ethics of Incarceration: The Moral Implications of Treating Prisons Like Businesses" [scholarly article]: Professor D'Amico addresses the economics and morality of prison and prison privatization. http://bit.ly/OsMQFD 3. "U.S. prison population dwarfs that of other nations" [article]: New York Times article focusing on America's disproportionate prison population.
http://nyti.ms/QSVprm 4. "Prisoners' Poetry" [poems]: A website featuring poems written by prisoners. http://bit.ly/Sd93to
Discussion Questions: 1. What are the causes for the unusually high incarceration rate in the United States? 2. Do you think prisons are an effective way of handling crime? 3. What alternatives or reforms to the current prison system can you imagine for handling crime more effectively?
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The Prison in Economics: Private and Public Incarceration in Ancient Greece,
http://www.danieljdamico.com/
The Imprisoner's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Proportionate Punishment,
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Congresso de Direito e Economia
VI Congresso de Direito e Economia do IDERS
De 29 a 30 de agosto de 2012
Auditório da Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas da UFRGS
Avenida João Pessoa, nº 52, 3º andar- Porto Alegre
É com grande satisfação que o Instituto de Direito e Economia do Rio Grande do Sul - IDERS anuncia a abertura das inscrições para a VI edição de seu Congresso anual.
A Conferência de Abertura do VI Congresso será ministrada no dia 29 de agosto pelo Professor Fernando Araújo, da Universidade de Lisboa. O evento abordará ainda questões ligadas à Análise Econômica do Direito, através de palestras sobre temas como Jurimetria, Teoria dos Jogos, Mercosul e Tratados Internacionais, Economia Constitucional, Responsabilidade Civil e Inteligência Artificial e Modelos de Comportamento Racional.
Além da Conferência de Abertura e das Palestras, o VI Congresso de Direito e Economia IDERS pela primeira vez proporcionará espaço próprio para a apresentação de trabalhos na área de L&E, selecionados a partir de chamada pública.
A Conferência de Abertura do VI Congresso será ministrada no dia 29 de agosto pelo Professor Fernando Araújo, da Universidade de Lisboa. O evento abordará ainda questões ligadas à Análise Econômica do Direito, através de palestras sobre temas como Jurimetria, Teoria dos Jogos, Mercosul e Tratados Internacionais, Economia Constitucional, Responsabilidade Civil e Inteligência Artificial e Modelos de Comportamento Racional.
Além da Conferência de Abertura e das Palestras, o VI Congresso de Direito e Economia IDERS pela primeira vez proporcionará espaço próprio para a apresentação de trabalhos na área de L&E, selecionados a partir de chamada pública.
Nunca confia em Hollywood
Leia que o meu amigo e colega Bob Murphy diz sobre of filme "Uma
mente brilhante" que trata a vida do economista-matemático John Nash:
Robert Murphy "... had a guy I knew in grad school email me, asking about the bar scene in "A Beautiful Mind," and how to research more on John Nash. Y'all need to know the awful truth about Ron Howard: Actually what is known as "Nash equilibrium" is the exact *opposite* of what was depicted in that scene. That is the equilibrium concept used in non-cooperative game theory, which models things like the Prisoner's Dilemma which you may have heard of. Now Nash also worked on what's called cooperative game theory, and maybe that's what the script writers had in mind, but my hunch is that they had no freaking clue what they were talking about, and thought it would be dramatic to show Nash overturning Adam Smith.So if you want to google stuff, try "nash equilibrium" and "cooperative game theory" and maybe "nash solution cooperative game theory." But remember, the standard "Nash equilibrium" that will be the first thing in wikipedia, is the exact opposite of what they were doing in that bar scene."
Robert Murphy "... had a guy I knew in grad school email me, asking about the bar scene in "A Beautiful Mind," and how to research more on John Nash. Y'all need to know the awful truth about Ron Howard: Actually what is known as "Nash equilibrium" is the exact *opposite* of what was depicted in that scene. That is the equilibrium concept used in non-cooperative game theory, which models things like the Prisoner's Dilemma which you may have heard of. Now Nash also worked on what's called cooperative game theory, and maybe that's what the script writers had in mind, but my hunch is that they had no freaking clue what they were talking about, and thought it would be dramatic to show Nash overturning Adam Smith.So if you want to google stuff, try "nash equilibrium" and "cooperative game theory" and maybe "nash solution cooperative game theory." But remember, the standard "Nash equilibrium" that will be the first thing in wikipedia, is the exact opposite of what they were doing in that bar scene."
Briga de patentes
Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple?
The web has been alight these past few weeks with the details of the Apple v. Samsung lawsuit. It's been a unique opportunity to peer behind the curtain of how these two companies operate, as the trial seeks to answer the question: did Samsung copy Apple? But there's actually another question that I think is much more interesting to the future of innovation in the technology industry: regardless of whether the courts say that Samsung copied Apple or not, would we all be better off if we allowed — even encouraged — companies to copy one another?This is particularly relevant in the context of the Apple/Samsung trial, because it isn't the first time Apple has been involved in a high-stakes "copying" court case. If you go back to the mid-1990s, there was their famous "look and feel" lawsuit against Microsoft. Apple's case there was eerily similar to the one they're running today: "we innovated in creating the graphical user interface; Microsoft copied us; if our competitors simply copy us, it's impossible for us to keep innovating." Apple ended up losing the case.
But it's what happened next that's really fascinating.
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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." -- Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894)
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"Propriedade" intelectual
N. Stephan Kinsella
How Intellectual Property Hampers the Free Market
Advocates of free-market capitalism commonly believe in the legitimacy of intellectual property (IP) because IP rights are thought to be important to a system of private property.
But are they? There are good reasons to think that IP is not actually property—that it is actually antithetical to a private-property, free-market order. By intellectual property, I mean primarily patent and copyright.
It’s important to understand the origins of these concepts. As law professor Eric E. Johnson notes, “The monopolies now understood as copyrights and patents were originally created by royal decree, bestowed as a form of favoritism and control. As the power of the monarchy dwindled, these chartered monopolies were reformed, and essentially by default, they wound up in the hands of authors and inventors.”
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But are they? There are good reasons to think that IP is not actually property—that it is actually antithetical to a private-property, free-market order. By intellectual property, I mean primarily patent and copyright.
It’s important to understand the origins of these concepts. As law professor Eric E. Johnson notes, “The monopolies now understood as copyrights and patents were originally created by royal decree, bestowed as a form of favoritism and control. As the power of the monarchy dwindled, these chartered monopolies were reformed, and essentially by default, they wound up in the hands of authors and inventors.”
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Robert Higgs sobre governo
Robert Higgs
"If
I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with
government today, I would use the word fraud. Certainly nowadays—perhaps in
every age—government is not what it claims to be (competent, protective, and
just), and it is what it claims not to be (bungling, menacing, and unjust). In
actuality, it is a vast web of deceit and humbug, and not for a good purpose,
either. Indeed, its true purposes are as reprehensible as its noble claims are
false. Its stock in trade is pretense. Yet the velvet glove of its countless
claims of benevolence scarcely conceals its iron fist of violence and threats
of more violence. It wants to be loved, but it will settle for being feared.
The one thing it will not do is simply leave us alone." -- Robert Higgs,
Against Leviathan (2004), p. xv.
"If
I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with
government today, I would use the word fraud. Certainly nowadays—perhaps in
every age—government is not what it claims to be (competent, protective, and
just), and it is what it claims not to be (bungling, menacing, and unjust). In
actuality, it is a vast web of deceit and humbug, and not for a good purpose,
either. Indeed, its true purposes are as reprehensible as its noble claims are
false. Its stock in trade is pretense. Yet the velvet glove of its countless
claims of benevolence scarcely conceals its iron fist of violence and threats
of more violence. It wants to be loved, but it will settle for being feared.
The one thing it will not do is simply leave us alone." -- Robert Higgs,
Against Leviathan (2004), p. xv.
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