Stalin na Ucrânia

When Life Really Stinks

By Bionic Mosquito

Perhaps more than any other post, my recent post on the forced famine in Ukraine has really remained with me.  When thinking about people living in impossible situations (picture Iraq or Syria), I try to put myself in the position of a father sending his children off to school, not knowing if they will return safely; of a husband seeing his wife off to market, carrying the same burden of possible finality; of the breadwinner living in a place in which the economy has been destroyed.
The following – taken from the author of the book Bloodlands – has struck me and is what has stuck with me:

First weeks of 1933: with starvation raging through Ukraine, Stalin closed the borders of the republic such that the starving couldn’t flee, and closed the cities such that the starving couldn’t beg.  As of 14 January, citizens were required to carry internal passports.  The sale of long distance tickets to peasants was banned.

No food left to requisition, so none left to eat.  No way to flee.  Nothing left to do but die…in place.
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Beleza

Around the world in 10 artworks of bodily beauty

From the godesses of Parthenon to the court ladies of China, here are ten pieces of art from human history that define beauty 

The beguiling nature of beauty – shifting and subjective, yet undeniably potent – has inspired perhaps the majority of art in human history. ... we look at 10 key artworks around the world that deal with bodily beauty. 

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Um país chamado favela

Por João Cesar de Melo em 29/03/2015

Uma das características dos socialistas é oferecer provas contra si mesmos, seja por meio de seus governos, seja por meio de seus discursos e livros. Eles próprios se encarregam de deixar bem claro o quanto são incompetentes, delirantes e contraditórios, muitas vezes evidenciando o quanto são incapazes de enxergar que muitos dos fenômenos sociais que eles enaltecem fazem parte, na verdade, do argumento liberal, não do discurso socialista.
Acabei de ler Um País Chamado Favela, livro escrito por Renato Meirelles e Celso Athayde. Não perderei o meu tempo falando sobre as primeiras 25 páginas (o livro tem 167) dedicadas à tentativa de implantar no leitor adjetivos elogiosos ao livro antes mesmo dele o ler. Não perderei meu tempo debochando das apresentações assinadas por “grandes intelectuais brasileiros”, tais como Preto Zezé, MV Bill e… Luciano Huck! Também não perderei tempo enumerando as distorções na leitura da história recente do Brasil. Comprei o livro por causa das estatísticas que os autores oferecem.
Resumidamente, para 96% dos moradores das 63 favelas pesquisadas, NÃO foram políticas públicas as responsáveis pela melhoria da qualidade de vida. Para 14%, a família foi a causa, para 40% foi Deus o responsável e para 42% a melhoria de suas vidas foi obra tão somente de seus próprios esforços, ou seja, aquilo que os liberais gritam todos os dias – a potência do indivíduo!
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Impostos sobre alimentos

Esportistas abaixo do salário mínimo

Esportistas nos Estados Unidos de beisebol com salários abaixo da linha de pobreza
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/union-workers-gather-at-spring-training-to-support-underpaid-minor-leaguers-061841237.html

Revisionismo histórico Stalin e Hitler

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy Snyder
Take your choice:

Many Europeans, distressed by the nazification of Germany, looked hopefully to Moscow for an ally.

Or:

For some of the Germans and other Europeans who favored Hitler and his enterprise, the cruelty of Soviet policy seemed to be an argument for National Socialism

 This was the world facing those in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s.  What a choice…as if anyone living there had much of a choice.
Hitler significantly consolidated power in 1933.  The Reichstag fire, election victories (thanks to the support of the German communists, on orders from Stalin), the first concentration camps, an enabling act allowing Hitler to rule by decree.  All big news throughout the western world, compared to the minor news item of the millions killed by the intentional famines and deportations occurring in the Soviet Union at the same time.
Internationally, Stalin was given a pass: “…with the help of many sympathizers abroad….”  Hitler was confronted with “voices of criticism and outrage.”  This at a time when the deaths attributable to Stalin’s policies were infinitely greater than those attributable to Hitler’s.
Hitler’s terror, at this time, was one of intimidation – he locked up subversive (in his view) elements; he did not eliminate these, at least not in meaningful numbers.  In the meantime, Germany signed a non-aggression declaration with Poland – at the same time that Stalin was killing and otherwise purging Poles within the Soviet Union by the thousands.
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Como detectar depressão

Oito atitudes típicas de pessoas que têm depressão, mas não demonstram

• Medo ou desconhecimento?

Nesse artigo conheça 8 sintomas de pessoas que levam a vida com o que chamamos de “depressão mascarada”, doença que elas tentam esconder ou mesmo que nem sabem que têm.

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Distribuição da riqueza

Brasil - vítima do keynesianismo vulgar

Brasil: vítima do keynesianismo vulgar

por Antony Mueller, sexta-feira, 27 de março de 2015

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Todos os caminhos keynesianos levam à estagflação.  Foi assim na Europa e nos EUA na década de 1970, quando tanto a estagnação econômica quanto a inflação de preços atingiram suas economias ao mesmo tempo.  Atualmente, esse é o caso do Brasil.

Desde que chegou ao poder, em 2003, o governo trabalhista brasileiro se dedicou, religiosamente, a implantar a doutrina econômica do "crescimento por meio do consumismo".  Atualmente, o país vive as inevitáveis consequências dessa política simplista, que culminou em endividamento recorde da população, acentuadadesvalorização cambial, estagnação econômica e inflação de preços em ascensão.

Todos os indicadores econômicos já estão piscando uma luz vermelha: do crescimento econômico à taxa de câmbio, passando pela inflação de preços, pela produtividade, pelo investimento e pela produção industrial (queencolhe há 11 meses).  A confiança do empresariado está no menor nível da série histórica.  Já a confiança do consumidor é a pior em 10 anos.

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Fim da educação por matérias

Finlândia quer acabar com ensino por matérias e pode revolucionar educação ocidental

De quantas fórmulas das aulas de Matemática no colégio você se lembra?

Aquele decoreba de elementos químicos do ensino médio ainda está na ponta da língua?

A escola que você frequentou lhe tornou um ser humano melhor, mais completo e com capacidade de reflexão e empatia com o próximo?

Ou apenas despejou um sem número de conceitos e números, mirando sua aprovação no vestibular?

O atual sistema educacional, vigente no Brasil e na maioria dos países ocidentais, pode aprender muito com um plano da Finlândia que pode transformar a educação do país europeu.

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Pobreza na Alemanha

n Deutschland gibt es immer mehr Armut - so schrieb es der Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband im Februar. Seine Rechnung: Arm ist, wer weniger als 60 Prozent des durchschnittlichen Nettoeinkommens zur Verfügung hat, für eine vierköpfige Familie wären das derzeit 1873 Euro im Monat. Das ist ein „relativer Armutsbegriff“. In dieser Rechnung würde die Armut nicht einmal verringert, wenn alle Deutsche plötzlich das Doppelte verdienten.

Dafür hat der Wohlfahrtsverband viel Kritik bekommen. Jetzt stellt sich selbst Bundessozialministerin Andrea Nahles (SPD) gegen diese Wahrnehmung. „Der Ansatz führt leider schnell in die Irre“, sagte sie der Süddeutschen Zeitung. Es handele sich um eine relative Größe, die zwar die Spreizung der Einkommen zeige, aber nicht die absolute Armut.
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Desenvolvimento América Latina

Latin American Economic Outlook 2015  Education, Skills and Innovation for Development

OECD Development Centre

The Latin American Economic Outlook is the OECD Development Centre’s annual analysis of economic developments in Latin America. It is produced in partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) as well as CAF, the development bank of Latin America. Each edition includes a detailed macroeconomic overview as well as analysis of how the global context is shaping economic performance in the region. The Latin American Economic Outlook also takes an in-depth look at a special theme related to development in Latin America, taking into account future strategic challenges and opportunities. The 2015 edition focuses on the role of education, skills and innovation for development, taking stock of the current situation in the region, identifying the main challenges and opportunities in these fields, and presenting a series of policy areas where action is needed to impulse Latin America’s development.

Also available in: Spanish

Related links

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Mais rico que Rockefeller

"...Think about what you have that Rockefeller didn't. He couldn't watch TV, play video games, surf the Internet, or send e-mail. During the summer, he didn't have air conditioning. For most of his life, he couldn't travel by airplane. He didn't even have a 1G cell phone. [Here I held up my cell phone.] And here's the big one. If he got sick, he couldn't use many medicines, including penicillin...."
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Escravidão

Negros escravizaram portugueses por 741 anos.

Por Renato Furtado em 26 de março de 2015 · Cultura

A grande dívida que os brancos tem com os negros por 400 anos de escravidão é provavelmente a maior mentira já contada na história. O preconceito contra os brancos é tão grande que até o google mudou o resultado da minha pesquisa de “império mouro escravidão” para “império romano escravidão”. Mouro vem do latim Maures que significa Negro, devido a cor da pele deles dos integrantes do Império Mouro.

O Império Mouro foi o grande império muçulmano que conquistou o norte da África, Oriente Médio e Península Ibérica ( onde hoje se localizam Portugal e Espanha), é o mesmo império que alguns muçulmanos querem refazer através do estado islâmico. Com o regime de Califado, onde um homem seria escolhido por Deus para liderar o povo muçulmano na conversão do mundo para o islamismo. 

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Os erros de Piketty

Piketty's Three Big Mistakes

Matt Rognlie is a fun guy and a very smart guy. An economics doctoral student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rognlie had a blog, but ditched it in favor of writing long comments and e-mails to bloggers (including yours truly). As proof that blogs can be an important part of the research process, Rognlie turned a blog comment into the most biting critique of Thomas Piketty yet produced. 

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Singapura e Cuba em comparação 1950 e 2015

A Tale Of Two Economies: Singapore And Cuba

Posted By: Frank HolmesPosted date: March 27, 2015 12:35:13 PMIn: BusinessNo Comments

A Tale Of Two Economies: Singapore And Cuba by Frank Holmes.

It would be nearly impossible to find two world leaders in living memory whose influence is more inextricably linked to the countries they presided over than Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew, who passed away this Monday at the age of 91.
You might find this hard to believe now, but in 1959—the year both leaders assumed power—Cuba was a much wealthier nation than Singapore. Whereas Singapore was little more than a sleepy former colonial trading and naval outpost with very few natural resources, Cuba enjoyed a thriving tourism industry and was rich in tobacco, sugar and coffee.
Fast forward about 55 years, and things couldn’t have reversed more dramatically, as you can see in the images below.

The ever-widening divergence between the two nations serves as a textbook case study of a) the economic atrophy that’s indicative of Soviet-style communism, and b) the sky-is-the-limit prosperity that comes with the sort of American-style free market capitalism Lee introduced to Singapore.
Sound fiscal policy, a strong emphasis on free trade and competitive tax rates have transformed the Southeast Asian city-state from an impoverished third world country into a bustling metropolis and global financial hub that today rivals New York City, London and Switzerland. Between 1965 and 1990—the year he stepped down as prime minister—Lee grew Singapore’s per capita GDP a massive 2,800 percent, from $500 to $14,500.
Since then, its per capita GDP based on purchasing power parity (PPP) has caught up with and zoomed past America’s.
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Brasil - vítima do keynesianismo vulgar

Novo texto do Antony Mueller

Brazil: Victim of Vulgar Keynesianism

by Antony P. Mueller

"... in early 2015, disillusion has fully set in. People feel cheated by the false optimism of the government. The corruption scandal of the Brazilian oil company Petrobras together with the rapidly deteriorating economic conditions drove over a million of Brazilians to the streets on March 15 in protest against the government.
What many of the protesters fail to see, however, is that Brazil needs more than just a change of government. The country needs a change of mind. In order to get on to the path of prosperity, Brazil has to discard its prevalent economic ideology. Brazil has to get rid of its tradition of profligate government spending and easy money, Marxist-inspired state involvement in the economy, and the protectionism that had come with the adoption of Cepalism (the economic policy concept of the Economic Commission of Latin America). Not special circumstances lie at the heart of the current malaise, but wrong ideas about economic policy.
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Distribuição racial do patrimônio EU

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Universidades: altos custos - pouco retorno

The world is going to university - More and more money is being spent on higher education. Too little is known about whether it is worth it

"... as our special report argues, just as America’s system is spreading, there are growing concerns about whether it is really worth the vast sums spent on it...
The modern research university, a marriage of the Oxbridge college and the German research institute, was invented in America, and has become the gold standard for the world. Mass higher education started in America in the 19th century, spread to Europe and East Asia in the 20th and is now happening pretty much everywhere except sub-Saharan Africa. The global tertiary-enrolment ratio—the share of the student-age population at university—went up from 14% to 32% in the two decades to 2012; in that time, the number of countries with a ratio of more than half rose from five to 54. University enrolment is growing faster even than demand for that ultimate consumer good, the car. The hunger for degrees is understandable: these days they are a requirement for a decent job and an entry ticket to the middle class.
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"neoliberal"

O que está por trás do movimento neoliberal que quer dominar o Brasil?

Eles tomam as ruas aos gritos, com seus cartazes de protesto contra o governo. Mas afinal, o que querem os neoliberais? 

Normalmente a gente lê pelos cantos que o neoliberalismo é o principal culpado pelos grandes males da humanidade. É dele a culpa pela falta d’água nas torneiras, e pelas crianças que dormem nos bancos das praças, e pelas comidas que não chegam às mesas dos lares, e pelos lucros dos grandes banqueiros. Aliás, lucro - tá aí uma palavra difícil de desassociar de neoliberal. É complicado respeitar uma teoria quando ela passa a impressão de ser uma mera ideologização do lucro, não é mesmo? Vai dizer que quando você escuta falar nessa palavra, neoliberalismo, a primeira impressão que lhe vem à cabeça não é um cara bem vestido, sentado numa poltrona imensa, usando um chapéu-coco e fumando um charutão, no topo de um prédio empresarial no centro de uma grande metrópole? Ou é isso ou então você invariavelmente irá lembrar das privatizações do Fernando Henrique. É batata! Neoliberalismo tem essa imagem de gente rica querendo meter a mão na grana alheia, de submissão aos interesses norte americanos e dos grandes banqueiros internacionais. É uma dessas palavras que carregam duzentas toneladas nas costas; já nasceu palavrão.
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Distribuição de renda - futebol

Messi é jogador mais bem pago do mundo. Neymar fica em terceiro

Thiago Silva e David Luiz são os outros brasileiros entre os 20 jogadores lembrados por revista francesa. Cristiano Ronaldo, do Real Madrid, termina na segunda posição

Leia mais no LANCENET! http://www.lancenet.com.br/minuto/Messi-jogador-mundo-Neymar-fica_0_1327067379.html#ixzz3VUZLtmdw
© 1997-2015 Todos os direitos reservados a Areté Editorial S.A Diário LANCE! 
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O que importa para ganhar trabalho

Here is the ranking, from most to least important:

1. Attitude

2. Work ethic / integrity

3. Credible work history

4. Cultural fit

5. Specific skills

6. Job experience

7. References

8. Education

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Liberdade

"Economic freedom is an indispensable condition of all other freedom, and free enterprise both a necessary condition and a consequence of personal freedom." -F.A. Hayek

Em defesa da inovação

Progressive Luddites and Gustave de Molinari’s Final Words

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MARCH 26, 2015Louis Rouanet

TAGS Big GovernmentGlobal EconomyInterventionism

In spite of a seemingly endless number of examples to the contrary, we continue to be confronted, even in 2015, with the widespread idea that technological innovation can destroy jobs and wealth. Each new labor-saving technology leads to worried speculations by those who fear any challenge to the status quo.

Astute economists and observers in every era have debunked this idea again and again. Writing in 1911, for example, the French economist and philosopher Gustave de Molinari addressed this issue in his final book, Ultima Verba : Mon Dernier Ouvrage (Ultima Verba: My Last Work). At that time, Molinari was ninety-one years old and had only one more year to live. However, he was still writing with great lucidity and his book is a merciless attack against protectionism, taxation, the military-industrial complex, and government privilege.

In Ultima Verba, Molinari address the common argument claiming new technologies are destroying wealth and jobs — an argument which had been refuted by Frédéric Bastiat more than sixty years before in Economic Sophisms.

Molinari asks the question: “is an automobile wealth?” This question, today, seems completely absurd. Unless one is a radical environmentalist, one is extremely unlikely to conclude that an automobile does not have value. The enormous number of people worldwide who own automobiles have already demonstrated their disagreement.

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Ciência física

CARLO ROVELLI:] We teach our students: we say that we have some theories about science. Science is about hypothetico-deductive methods, we have observations, we have data, data require to be organized in theories. So then we have theories. These theories are suggested or produced from the data somehow, then checked in terms of the data. Then time passes, we have more data, theories evolve, we throw away a theory, and we find another theory which is better, a better understanding of the data, and so on and so forth.

This is a standard idea of how science works, which implies that science is about empirical content, the true interesting relevant content of science is its empirical content. Since theories change, the empirical content is the solid part of what science is. Now, there's something disturbing, for me as a theoretical scientist, in all this. I feel that something is missing. Something of the story is missing. I've been asking to myself what is this thing missing? I'm not sure I have the answer, but I want to present some ideas on something else which science is.
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O gato de Schrödinger

Pobreza nos Estados Unidos

How Poor Are the Poor?

Despite the rising optimism, there are disagreements over how many poor people there are and the conditions they live under. There are also questions about the problem of relative poverty, what we are now calling inequality. Poverty cannot be viewed in isolation from the larger economy. We must take disparities in the way the benefits of growth and productivity are distributed into account.
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Carl Jung

Piketty

Ignoring the Difference between Free markets and State Capitalism

by Kevin Carson March 23, 2015

Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (Belknap 2014), 696 pages.
The basic phenomenon that Thomas Piketty devotes this book to describing is simple: “When the rate of return on capital significantly exceeds the growth rate of the economy…, then it logically follows that inherited wealth grows faster than output and income.”
His historical account of wealth accumulation, the mass of statistical evidence he musters in support of it, and his analysis of present-day trends are all an excellent read. His weakness lies, not in his description, but in his prescription: his analysis of the root causes of the concentration of wealth and the remedies he proposes.
In every case Piketty ignores the extent to which the rate of return on land and capital is influenced by state intervention in the market. If there’s truth to his indictment, it’s an indictment against corporatism, not free markets.
For example, he argues that the tendency of rent to exceed growth has nothing to do with market imperfections. He largely ignores the dependence of rates of return on property on the legal structure; he writes that the growth of inequality in France after the Revolution paralleled that in England, despite the Civil Code’s having “abolished all legal privileges” and “guaranteed absolute equality before the laws of property as well as freedom of contract….” In so arguing, he misses Henry George Jr.’s fundamental distinction between “equality under the law” and “equal laws.” “Equality of rights and opportunities” is insufficient without regard to what rights and opportunities are equally held. We’ve all no doubt heard Anatole France’s observation that “the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
Piketty is much concerned with the return to capital, but a major share of things that count as part of the capital stock on which “rent” is received would not even count as property in a genuine free-market regime. Human slaves were one such form of “property,” with an enormous capital valuation on the market, until 1865 in the United States. Today rents on property whose title originally traces to the enclosure of vacant and unimproved land, and rents on the “ownership” of ideas, fall under the same heading.
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O grande erro de nosso tempo

Ivan Illich: "... Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby "schooled" to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is "schooled" to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavor are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is made to depend on allocating more resources to the management of hospitals, schools, and other agencies in question..."
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Piketty

 

Thomas Piketty's Thesis Is Wrong On Logical Grounds

29 CommentsMon, Mar 23 2015 00:00:00 EA11_ISSUES

BY THOMAS MAYOR, Investor's Business Daily

Thomas Piketty's recent best-selling book, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," has been hailed by anti-capitalists as proof that a free-market system is rigged in favor of idle "rentiers" at the expense of ordinary citizens.

In Piketty's own words, "the entrepreneur tends to become a rentier, more and more dominant over those who own nothing but their labor. Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future."
This result supposedly holds because "when the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based."
So what are we to do? According to Piketty, the solution is an annual wealth tax of 1% on "fortunes" between 1 million and 5 million euros and 2% above 5 million euros. One can well imagine that Piketty's arguments will be raised by sympathetic politicians in the 2016 elections.
In a forthcoming article in May's American Economic Review, Piketty has softened his thesis somewhat. But a mere softening will not do.
The thesis is unequivocally incorrect. It is wrong on logical grounds because he seems to think the rate of return on capital is the same thing as the rate of growth of wealth. It is not.
Wealth holders pay federal and state income taxes, not to mention estate taxes, engage in consumption and make donations. These activities reduce the actual rate of growth of "rentier" wealth far below the rate of return on capital and far below the rate of growth of national income.
The reason "old wealth" is not able to keep up with the growth of the overall economy is readily apparent when one looks at actual data on rates of return, tax rates and economic growth.
Piketty suggests that the historical rate of return on a mixture of assets is 3% to 4% per year in excess of the rate of inflation, a range broadly consistent with generally accepted sources of data. At current inflation rates of 2%, the nominal return would then be about 5.5% per year at the midpoint of Piketty's range. State and federal income taxes on a mix of various types of investment income reduce the average nominal return from 5.5% to 4% or less and the real, after-tax return from 3.5% to 2% or less.
Since 2% per year is below the 3% per year long-term average rate of growth of the U. S. economy, Piketty's typical rentier would be falling behind each year at the rate of 1%, even if he consumed nothing out of wealth, made no charitable donations and paid nothing in estate taxes!
Failure of the Piketty thesis is rather obvious when tested against the best available data. As detailed in my current Cato Journal article, all of these data indicate that rentier wealth has lagged so far behind the growth of the economy as to make the Piketty thesis ludicrous.
For example, a recent survey conducted by Forbes magazine found that only 16 out of 185 billionaire families in the U. S. can trace their fortune back to the 19th century. Nowhere on the Forbes list are the Vanderbilts, the Carnegies, the Morgans or the Astors, even though the initial wealth of each family is thought to have exceeded $100 billion in current dollars.
The wealthiest family of all, the Rockefellers, has apparently fallen from an estimated $340 billion or so in today's dollars to about $10 billion, a decline of 97% in absolute terms and 99.9% in per capita terms when spread over an estimated 4,803 current family members.
Yet if Piketty were correct, the Rockefeller family currently should have several trillion dollars in wealth.

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Expectativa da vida

População e renda mundial, distribuição regional

O novo autoritarismo

The new authoritarianism

Sergei Guriev, Daniel Treisman 21 March 2015

In recent decades, new forms of dictatorship based on manipulating information rather than on mass violence, have emerged. This column explores the trade-offs and techniques of the modern dictator. Such dictators can survive using little violence in the face of moderate economic underperformance. Economic downturns often prompt an increase in censorship and propaganda. Though new information-based dictatorships are better adapted to a modernised society, modernisation and access to information, as well as economic contractions could undermine them.
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Problemas com as estadísticas de Piketty

Yes, Thomas Piketty Was Wrong On Wealth

It’s been obvious for some time now that Thomas Piketty may well have had a best seller but also that his actual analysis was wrong. His point being that there was some ever rising concentration of wealth in the economy and that this was a very bad thing. The problem with this thesis is that when people go looking for this concentration they just cannot find it. We thus rather end up having to say that there isn’t some concentration of wealth going on so whether it’s a good or a bad thing doesn’t really apply.

On this very subject there’s an interesting Brookings paper just out. Which looks at the composition of capital in the US and it simply cannot find that concentration that Piketty claims is there. Here’s the abstract: 

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Roubo de ovos custa caro em Cuba

Funcionários públicos são condenados a até 15 anos de prisão por roubarem ovos de estatais cubanas

Um tribunal cubano condenou a penas entre cinco e 15 anos de prisão 18 funcionários públicos envolvidos no roubo de oito milhões de ovos de empresas estatais, informou a imprensa local.

A Promotoria cubana havia pedido penas de até 20 anos de prisão.

"O desvio de mais de oito milhões de ovos liberados gerou um impacto econômico de 8.907.562 pesos (cerca de 356 mil dólares). Por este crime, foram punidos 18 cidadãos pertencentes à Unidade Empresarial de Base de Negócios e Distribuição de Ovos Havana e da Empresa Provincial de Comércio na capital", indicou o jornal Granma.

O presidente Raul Castro lançou uma cruzada contra a corrupção na ilha comunista, que ele descreveu como "câncer" em 2009.

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Festival de sacrifício de animais em Nepal

Photos of Animal Sacrifices from Nepal's Gadhimai Festival

March 20, 2015

By Sergey Stroitelev 

Unlike much of the rest of the world, many religious Nepalese still believe in the power of sacrifice. To appease the gods they kill a lot of bulls, goats, and pigs during the biggest festival in Nepal, Dashain, which lasts 15 days, takes place in temples all over the country, and is often attended by tourists. Less famous is the Gadhimai festival, which takes place every five years at the end of the year (the last one was held in late November 2014). The event is like nothing else in the world, and has become extremely controversial. In several days, up to 3 million people sacrifice hundreds of thousands of animals. It's estimated that 250,000 animals were sacrificed in 2009's ceremonies.

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Uma curta história do ser humano

An Austro-Libertarian Reconstruction of Man's Development

A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline is nothing less than a concise revisionist history of man, skillfully presented by Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe. He addresses the rise of family structures, the development of private property, social evolution prior to the Industrial Revolution, and the rise of the state — all without regard for cherished myths.

Dr. Hoppe will make you rethink your assumptions regarding man's development in this engaging book. 

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Professores brasileiros exigem respeito

Pro que anarquismo?

O motivo de querer salvar a humanidade

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H.L. Mencken

História escondida - A origem da revolução russa

Sealed Train

From Metapedia

The sealed train

The Sealed train is the name given to the train used to take Lenin✡ and other communist subversives from Zurich back to Russia in 1917.
Lenin, while crossing German territory, had with him on board of his train some ten million dollars in gold, thanks to German chief banker Max Warburg, whose brother Paul strangely enough, in 1913, was the chief architect of the Federal Reserve System, the central bank of the United States. A good sum now and an enormous sum then knowing that he would undermine the Russian government and stop the Russians fighting on the Eastern Front. The pay off would be the transfer of forces to the Western Front where they were bogged down.
Lenin. A Sealed Train. And $10 million says:-

• The funny part about the "Russian" revolution, when it came, is that Lenin✡ was the last to know. A neighbour in Switzerland stopped by with the news. Actually, not such good news at first. Lenin couldn’t scrape together the bus fare back to Russia at the time....... Eventually, Lenin and his entourage were transported back to St Petersburg via Scandinavia in a sealed carriage. For company, Lenin had 10 million dollars from Germany to bring down the Russian Government and to surrender the Russian army in the process.

The Sealed Train also says:-

• In London that Week, Lenin’s✡ proposed journey was brought to the notice of Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary. On April 5, in fact, two telegrams that had reached the Foreign Office were causing anxiety. From Berne, British Ambassador Sir Horace Rumbold reported that negotiations were in progress with the German government to obtain “safe conducts through Germany to Russia of Russian socialists and anarchists resident in Switzerland.” Since they were in favor of immediate peace with Germany, they would be commissioned to “make violent propaganda among the working classes in Russia and among troops at the front.”.....
• The other telegram that arrived in London that day was received at the Admiralty. Six socialists had been removed by British naval authorities from the SS Christiania Fiord, which had called in at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on her way to Russia from New York. It had been reported that one of them, Trotsky, was “the leader of a movement to start a revolution against the present Russian Government, the funds being subscribed by socialists and Germans.”

The Wikipedia tells us that:-

• After the 1917 February Revolution in Russia and the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, Lenin✡ realized that he must return to Russia as soon as possible, but this was problematic because he was isolated in neutral Switzerland as the First World War raged throughout neighboring states. The Swiss communist Fritz Platten nonetheless managed to negotiate with the German government for Lenin and his company to travel through Germany by rail, on the so-called “sealed train”. The German government clearly hoped Lenin’s return would create political unrest back in Russia, which would help to end the war on the Eastern front, allowing Germany to concentrate on defeating the Western allies. Once through Germany, Lenin continued by ferry to Sweden; the remainder of the journey through Scandinavia was subsequently arranged by Swedish communists Otto Grimlund and Ture Nerman.

• On April 16, 1917, Lenin✡ arrived by train to a tumultuous reception at Finland Station, in Petrograd. He immediately took a leading role within the Bolshevik movement, publishing the April Theses, which called for an uncompromising opposition to the provisional government. Initially, Lenin isolated his party through this lurch to the left. However, this uncompromising stand meant that the Bolsheviks were to become the obvious home for all those who became disillusioned with the provisional government, and with the “luxury of opposition” the Bolsheviks did not have to assume responsibility for any policies implemented by the government.

The Sealed Train Chapter Five tells us that there were around thirty two (32) travellers in the group including women and children. 

Arte e individualismo

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing

and disintegrating force. Therein lies its immense value

For what it seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery

of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to

the level of a machine.

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- Oscar Wilde

Adam Smith: A riqueza das nações

Professor Dr. Antony Mueller da Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS) apresenta sua versão da "pirâmide smithiana da riqueza das nações" da teoria de Adam Smith. O vídeo explica a lógica do modelo de Adam Smith e destaca os pontos principais como obter crescimento econômico e sair da pobreza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPi3X4ctwAQ

O caminho de prosperidade

Meu artigo de Outubro 2011 sobre a prosperidade e pobreza no Brasil

O caminho da prosperidade

Postado em 25 de Outubro, 2011.
Autor Antony Mueller

O governo brasileiro colocou a eliminação da miséria no topo da sua lista de prioridades políticas. Assim o governo atual continua a política da promoção do crescimento econômico como foi feito do governo anterior com o chamado PAC – Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento. No entanto, com o crescimento econômico, a questão não é tanto de alcançar altas taxas de crescimento por um curto período de tempo; o verdadeiro desafio é se se pode sustentar o crescimento econômico ao longo do tempo.

O desenvolvimento econômico é uma maratona e o que parece às vezes bem sucedido no curto prazo se mostra desastroso no longo prazo. Gastos públicos e intervencionismo funcionam para instigar um surto de crescimento, mas para alcançar a prosperidade duradoura precisa-se boa governança e de uma economia livre.....

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Novo artigo do Antony Mueller sobre o ciclo de negócios

A Teoria Austríaca do Ciclo de Negócios na Perspectiva do Modelo GSMS
Antony Mueller
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Mises: Revista Interdisciplinar de Filosofia, Direito e Economia
Volume II, Número 1, Edição 3 (Janeiro-Junho 2014)

Sumário
Editorial: A Escola Austríaca e o Mercado das Ideias
Fabio Barbieri
EPISTEMOLOGIA E ÉTICA
Alguns Erros Populares Acerca do Escopo e Método da Economia – Parte 1
Ludwig von Mises
A Invasão Hermenêutica da Filosofia e da Economia
Murray Rothbard
O Libertarianismo é Amoral?
Ralph Raico
ECONOMIA, METODOLOGIA E PRAXEOLOGIA
Economia como Ciência Teórica e suas Relações com as Ciências Econômicas Históricas e Práticas – Parte 2
Carl Menger
Domínio da Economia Subjetiva: Entre a Ciência Preditiva e a Filosofia Moral
James M. Buchanan.
Cataláxia: A Escola Austríaca versus o Mainstream
Mariana Piaia Abreu
A Teoria Austríaca do Ciclo de Negócios na Perspectiva do Modelo GSMS
Antony Mueller

Existe Bolha no Mercado Imobiliário Brasileiro?
Adolfo Sachsida & Mario Jorge Mendonça
HISTÓRIA DO PENSAMENTO ECONÔMICO E POLÍTICO
O Pensamento Econômico da Escolástica Espanhola Tardia – Parte 1
Murray Rothbard
O Pensamento Econômico de Juan de Mariana
Alejandro Antonio Chafuen
Tratado sobre a Alteração da Moeda – Parte 1
Juan de Mariana, S.J.
O Liberalismo Constitucional e o Império: Uma Análise de Conjunto da Obra de João Camilo de Oliveira Torres
Marcus Boeira

SOCIEDADE, LEGISLAÇÃO E POLÍTICA
Sociedade – Parte 2
Ludwig von Mises
Reflexões sobre o Policentrismo Jurídico
Gerard Casey
Antitruste: Uma Necessária Revisão Histórica
André Luiz S. C. Ramos
CULTURA E LIBERDADE
Marxismo ou Tolstoismo?
Henry Hazlitt
A Filosofia da Liberdade na Saga de Filmes Star Wars – Parte 1
Alex Catharino
RESENHAS DE LIVROS
"Dez Lições Fundamentais de Economia Austríaca" de Ubiratan Jorge Iorio
Gabriel Moreira Beraldi
"Free Market Fairness" de John Tomasi
Armando Martins
"Resilient Liberalism in Europe’s Political Economy" editado por Vivien A, Schmidt e Mark Tatcher
Riccardo de Caria
"A Tragédia do Euro" de Phillip Bagus
Paulo Roberto Tellechea Sanchotene
"Bitcoin: A Moeda na Era Digital" de Fernando Ulrich
Claudio A. Tellez-Zepeda
"A Lei" de Frédéric Bastiat
Marcos Paulo Fernandes de Araujo
"Potere: La Dimensione Política della Azione Umana" de Lorenzo Infantino
Ubiratan Jorge Iorio
"Democracia, o deus que falhou: A Economia e a Política da Monarquia, da Democracia e da Ordem Natural" de Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Daniela Sofia Silva
"A Mentalidade Anticapitalista" de Ludwig von Mises
Bernardo Santoro
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