Burocracia

..."O burocrata é, no simplismo e também por vezes na justeza dos juízos populares, o homem inútil que se compraz em multiplicar as formalidades, encarecer as pretensões, amortalhar em papéis os interesses, embaraçar os problemas com as dúvidas, atrasar as soluções com os despachos, obscurecer a claridade da justiça em nuvens de textos legais, ouvir mal atento ou desabrido as queixas e as razões do público que são o pão, ou o tempo, ou a fazenda, ou a honra, ou a vida da Nação perante o Estado e a sua justiça; trabalhar pouco, ganhar muito e certo; sem proveito nem utilidade social, parasitariamente, sorver como esponja o produto do suor e do trabalho do povo."...

António de Oliveira Salazar - 5 de Outubro de 1940

Evolução da tecnologia - bibliografia

George Basalla, The Evolution of Technology (Cambridge University Press, 1988).

Margaret C. Jacob, The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Margaret C. Jacob, Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West (Oxford University Press, 1997).

Joel Mokyr, The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain, 1700-1850 (Yale University Press, 2012).

Jacob Schmookler, Invention and Economic Growth (Harvard University Press, 1966).

Christine Macleod, Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Paul Slack, The Invention of Improvement: and Material Progress in Seventeenth Century England (Oxford University Press, 2015).

O objetivo da lei

Ciência que não funciona

Scientists Replicated 100 Psychology Studies, and Fewer Than Half Got the Same Results

The massive project shows that reproducibility problems plague even top scientific journals

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Carne faz bem para o coração

Compounds found in meat and certain vegetables can improve heart health, a new study shows. (Photo: Stocksy)

Meat isn’t exactly known as a heart-healthy food, but scientists are now saying it should be — in moderation.

New research published in the journal Nutrition found that eating meat can actually give your heart a boost — and the impact is the same as if you were to stop smoking, cut back on your sodium intake, or exercise more. Mais

70 % das familias ricas perdem na segunda geração

70% of Rich Families Lose Their Wealth by the Second Generation

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A maior ameaça da todas

Método científico

The Scientific Method 7:00 AM Aug 19, 2015

Science Isn’t Broken

It’s just a hell of a lot harder than we give it credit for.

By Christie Aschwanden

Graphics by Ritchie King

If you follow the headlines, your confidence in science may have taken a hit lately.
Peer review? More like self-review. An investigation in November uncovered a scam in which researchers were rubber-stamping their own work, circumventing peer review at five high-profile publishers.
Scientific journals? Not exactly a badge of legitimacy, given that the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology recently accepted for publication a paper titled “Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List,” whose text was nothing more than those seven words, repeated over and over for 10 pages. Two other journals allowed an engineer posing as Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel to publish a paper, “Fuzzy, Homogeneous Configurations.”
Revolutionary findings? Possibly fabricated. In May, a couple of University of California, Berkeley, grad students discovered irregularities in Michael LaCour’s influential paper suggesting that an in-person conversation with a gay person could change how people felt about same-sex marriage. The journal Science retracted the paper shortly after, when LaCour’s co-author could find no record of the data.
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Já estamos lá

Herbert Marcuse sobre a Escola de Frankfurt

Magee talks with the late Herbert Marcuse, whose thought informed the philosophy of the New Left. The two men discuss political theory, from capitalism to Marxism, and the student protest movement of the 1960s.
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O paradoxo do mentiroso

Resolving the Liar’s Paradox

Perhaps the most famous and persistent paradox of all time is the “Liar’s Paradox”. Whenever somebody tries to prove paradoxes are real, it’s almost inevitable that the following sentence will appear:

“This sentence is false.”

Sounds simple, but think about. Is this proposition true or false?

If “This sentence is false” is true, then the sentence must be false, because the sentence is claiming it’s false.

If “This sentence is false” is false, then it must be true, because the proposition is claiming “this sentence is false” is false. But, then again, if it’s actually true, then it must be false… which would mean it’s actually true.

You get the point.

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Cursos superiores

Cursos superiores podem ser 'desperdício' no Brasil, diz estudioso

Ruth CostasDa BBC Brasil em São Paulo

Image captionDiploma dá a jovens acesso a empregos que pagam melhor, mas qualidade dos cursos é duvidosEmbora tenham proliferado no Brasil nos últimos anos, muitos cursos superiores acabam não formando profissionais de qualidade, por isso, podem até acabar sendo um desperdício para a sociedade, de acordo com um especialista ouvido pela BBC Brasil.

Para Tristan MacCowan, professor de Educação e Desenvolvimento da Universidade de Londres, que há pelo menos uma década estuda a evolução do sistema educacional brasileiro, alguns desses cursos "não aumentam a capacidade de inovação da economia, não impulsionam sua produtividade e acabam ajudando a perpetuar uma situação de desigualdade, já que continua a ser vedado à população de baixa renda o acesso a cursos de maior prestígio e qualidade".

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Phelps sobre Rawls

"At American universities, the work of John Rawls is typically taught as the correct approach to the question of economics and morality. Offering an alternative to strict egalitarianism, Rawls does not call for equal distribution of material goods to all members of society. He urges instead what he calls the difference principle : Inequality is acceptable as long as the poorest are better o...ff than they would be under equal distribution.

It seems to me, as it does to most people, a persuasive argument that societal inequalities are acceptable as long as they serve as an engine for lifting up the people with the lowest rewards.
The shortcoming I have come to see in Rawls’ model is that it has no place for anything other than the distribution of material goods. He leaves out self-discovery, adventure, and leaping into the unknown. It is wrongheaded to maintain that a good society could be one that stifles challenge and personal growth if that is what it takes to provide the people at the bottom the last cookie that can be eked out of society’s resources. People don’t have the right to a few more cookies if it comes at the expense of all other people’s self-realization, self-discovery, and self-fulfillment as homo innovaticus."
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Socialismo do MEC

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Ensinar ignorância

The Case for Teaching Ignorance

By JAMIE HOLMESAUG

IN the mid-1980s, a University of Arizona surgery professor, Marlys H. Witte, proposed teaching a class entitled “Introduction to Medical and Other Ignorance.” Her idea was not well received; at one foundation, an official told her he would rather resign than support a class on ignorance.

Dr. Witte was urged to alter the name of the course, but she wouldn’t budge. Far too often, she believed, teachers fail to emphasize how much about a given topic is unknown. “Textbooks spend 8 to 10 pages on pancreatic cancer,” she said some years later, “without ever telling the student that we just don’t know very much about it.” She wanted her students to recognize the limits of knowledge and to appreciate that questions often deserve as much attention as answers. Eventually, the American Medical Association funded the class, which students would fondly remember as “Ignorance 101.”

Classes like hers remain rare, but in recent years scholars have made a convincing case that focusing on uncertainty can foster latent curiosity, while emphasizing clarity can convey a warped understanding of knowledge.

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Fisica

Quantum mechanics 101: Demystifying tough physics in 4 easy lessons

• 7 December, 2014 //
• Education, General, Science, Uncategorized //
• Posted By Emilie Soffe
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Bancos centrais e Bitcoins

Capitalismo e pobreza

Does Capitalism Cause Poverty?

CAMBRIDGE – Capitalism gets blamed for many things nowadays: poverty, inequality, unemployment, even global warming. As Pope Francis said in a recent speech in Bolivia: “This system is by now intolerable: farm workers find it intolerable, laborers find it intolerable, communities find it intolerable, peoples find it intolerable. The earth itself – our sister, Mother Earth, as Saint Francis would say – also finds it intolerable.”

But are the problems that upset Francis the consequence of what he called “unbridled capitalism”? Or are they instead caused by capitalism’s surprising failure to do what was expected of it? Should an agenda to advance social justice be based on bridling capitalism or on eliminating the barriers that thwart its expansion?

The answer in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia is obviously the latter. To see this, it is useful to recall how Karl Marx imagined the future.

Read more at http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/does-capitalism-cause-poverty-by-ricardo-hausmann-2015-08#dlalGDef0WZ0qUyw.99

Ricardo Hausmann

Ricardo Hausmann, a former minister of planning of Venezuela and former Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank, is Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at Harvard University, where he is also Director of the Center for International Development. He is Chair of the World Eco… read more

Educação universitária e desigualdade racial

Going to College Isn’t Paying Off for Students of Color

By Joseph Williams | Takepart.com August 21, 2015 6:05 PM TakePart.com 

 

         

It’s a truism few parents of high school seniors would refute: a college diploma is an economic investment as much as an intellectual one. Besides being a ticket to a middle-class lifestyle, the wisdom usually goes, a degree is an insurance policy against hard times.  

Yet a report released this week by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis shows that for minority college grads, the investment in higher education isn’t paying off like it should. And the bank’s analysis is the just latest data set to undermine the bedrock premise that education alone can help level the economic playing field between whites and minorities.

Although college grads across the board make more money than their less-educated peers, the report found that whites and Asians with four-year degrees not only tend to outearn their black and Latino counterparts, but they also better withstood the impact of the Great Recession. “Based on two decades of detailed wealth data, we conclude that education does not, however, protect the wealth of all racial and ethnic groups equally,” the report’s authors wrote.                 

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Idade Média

É nosso dever, como Tradutores de Direita, trazer aos falantes de língua portuguesa vídeos que ajudem a desmistificar os mitos e folclores que atingem uma das grandes bases culturais que alicerça boa parte do ocidente: a civilização judaico-cristã. Sobre o prisma de hoje a religião foi (e ainda é para alguns) um dos grandes empecilhos ao avanço científico e cultural do ocidente, quando na verdade, inspirados por Deus, homens sobrepuseram seus antepassados deixando um legado s...em precedentes. Um dos períodos mais menosprezados por intelectuais atualmente é a Idade Média (sendo até apelidada de "Idade das Trevas"), principalmente a européia, onde se diz que a aura da época era somente permeada por fanatismo, guerras religiosas, fome, peste, e por um período de larga ignorância científica. A Prager University fez questão de formular um vídeo que visa desmistificar mal entendidos, olhando o homem medieval com a grandeza e glória que lhe são devidos. Foi mesmo a Idade das Trevas? Veja o vídeo e tire suas conclusões.

Tradução: Israel Pestana
Revisão: Hélio Costa Jr.
Assista o vídeo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqzq01i2O3U
Visite www.tradutoresdedireita.org

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Escolha

Nanodegree

Enter: Nanodegrees.
Instead of only providing a bunch of singular, lecture-style classes, Udacity partnered with major tech companies like Google, Cloudera, Facebook, and Salesforce to build classes that fit neatly into six credentialed, project-focused programs.
The idea is that anyone who completes one of the nanodegrees — front-end web developer, Android developer, data analyst, iOS developer, full-stack developer, or intro to programming — will be perfectly primed to get a job, since major tech companies actually help design the curriculum.
Because the average technical worker switches jobs seven times over the course of their career and the industry changes fast enough to render many university-learned skills obsolete, Udacity teaches the kind of bleeding-edge skills that can help people either get a new job or seek a promotion.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/udacity-google-x-founder-sebastian-thrun-interview-2015-8#ixzz3jaMK358I

Tristeza sociológica

Alice Goffman's Implausible Ethnography

'On the Run’ reveals the flaws in how sociology is sometimes produced, evaluated, and rewarded

By Paul Campos 

AUGUST 21, 2015 - See more at: http://m.chronicle.com/article/Alice-Goffmans-Implausible-/232491/#sthash.Y6yLqTdm.aI4OlNZz.dpuf

Comunismo como ele é

“A vida no comunismo é um inferno, mas não para todos. Ela é o inferno para as pessoas de boa vontade. Para honestos. Para sensatos. Para aqueles que querem trabalhar para melhorar a sua vida e a vida dos outros. Para aqueles que têm espírito empreendedor. Para aqueles que querem fazer algo de forma melhor, mais eficiente e mais bonita. Para aqueles que querem melhorar, enriquecer e multiplicar. Para os sensíveis. Para aqueles que são francos e modestos.
Por outro lado, no c...omunismo, sentem-se bem os tolos que não enxergam a sua própria vaidade e comicidade. Os lacaios, oportunistas e conformistas têm uma vida maravilhosa. É assim porque com a consciência limpa podem não fazer absolutamente nada, mas nem acham que precisam fazer algo em troca de servilismo – sentem-se dispensados de qualquer responsabilidade, o que melhora ainda mais o seu conforto.” ~('Civilização Comunista', 1972, pelo escritor polonês Leopold Tymrand, tradução de Karolina Wachowicz Orlandi)

O mito da superpopulação

Convite

Ciência no Brasil

Suzana Herculano-Houzel: “Fazemos ciência no Brasil em condições miseráveis”

Com artigo recém-publicado na ‘Science’, neurocientista da UFRJ paralisou as atividades de seu laboratório por falta de recursos — R$ 15 mil foram tirados do próprio bolso  

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Liberdade no mundo

The Human Freedom Index… presents a broad measure of human freedom, understood as the absence of coercive constraint. It uses 76 distinct indicators of personal and economic freedom… The HFI covers 152 countries for 2012, the most recent year for which sufficient data is available. …The United States is ranked in 20th place. Other countries rank as follows: Germany (12), Chile (18), Japan (28), France (33), Singapore (43), South Africa (70), India (75), Brazil (82), Russia (111), China (132), Nigeria (139), Saudi Arabia (141), Venezuela (144), Zimbabwe (149), and Iran (152).
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Verdade

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality,” wrote T. S. Eliot.

Tecnologia e trabalho

Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data

Study of census results in England and Wales since 1871 finds rise of machines has been a job creator rather than making working humans obsolete
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Dicas de Paulo Lemann

20 frases de Jorge Paulo Lemann para você se inspirar

http://exame.abril.com.br/pme/noticias/20-frases-de-jorge-paulo-lemann-para-voce-se-inspirar#22

Escola pública em dúvida

Paul Goodman, The Community of Scholars (Random House, 1962).

Paul Goodman, Compulsory Mis-education (Horizon Press, 1964),

Paul Goodman, People or Personnel (Random House, 1965).

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As raízes peronisas de Francisco

BUENOS AIRES — “I wish to join my voice to yours in calling for land, lodging and labor for all our brothers and sisters. I said it and I repeat it: These are sacred rights. It is important, it is well worth fighting for them.” The combative-sounding message of Pope Francis last month on his South American tour resonated deeply in a region where poverty continues to be the most pressing concern.
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Karl Polanyi

Karl Polanyi Explains It All

Robert Kuttner

April 15, 2014

Want to understand our market-crazed era? Rediscover the 20th century’s most prophetic critic of capitalism.  

In November 1933, less than a year after Hitler assumed power in Berlin, a 47-year-old socialist writer on Vienna’s leading economics weekly was advised by his publisher that it was too risky to keep him on the staff. It would be best both for the Österreichische Volkswirt and his own safety if Karl Polanyi left the magazine. Thus began a circuitous odyssey via London, Oxford, and Bennington, Vermont, that led to the publication in 1944 of what many consider the 20th century’s most prophetic work of political economy, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Polanyi, with no academic base, was already a blend of journalist and public intellectual, a major critic of the Austrian School of free-market economics and its cultish leaders, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek. Polanyi and Hayek would cross swords for four decades—Hayek becoming more influential as an icon of the free-market right but history increasingly vindicating Polanyi.
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Educação é mais que graduação

The Credential Is Killing the Classroom - Don’t Get a Degree: Get an Education Instead - Isaac M. Morehouse

“I wish college were like this!” I hear this exclamation over and over at the seminars put on by organizations like the Foundation for Economic Education and the Institute for Humane Studies. Attendees are blown away by the excellence of the content, the professors’ willingness to engage students even in free time, and the intelligence and interest level of the other participants. And it’s not just the students who see a difference. Faculty also talk about how these seminars are far better than typical college classes. What causes this distinction?

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Pobreza absoluta desde 1820

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O mundo é cada vez melhor

The world is getting better all the time, in 11 maps and charts

by Zack Beauchamp on July 13, 2015

Reading the news, it sometimes feels like the world is falling apart: that everything is going to hell in a handbasket and we're on the verge of a total collapse. In fact, we're living through what is, by objective metrics, the best time in human history. People have never lived longer, better, safer, or richer lives than they do now. And these 11 charts and maps — which draw on centuries of data, as well as a brand new UN report that focuses on the past 25 years — prove it.
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Judicialização

Acho que no Brasil a judicialização é tão grande um problema como a corrupção. 

Uma boa guerra?

ROCKWELL:  Well, good morning.  This is the Lew Rockwell Show, and how great it is to have as our guest, Judge John Denson.  John is not only a successful lawyer in Opelika, Alabama, but a scholar, editor of The Costs of War, a book on the American presidency that we published, and written many, many articles concentrating on the evils of war, telling the truth about war, who started the wars, who benefits from the wars, all the kinds of things that we’re not supposed to know.  So today, we have a very exciting program. 

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Variedades da religião

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 2015 New Year's resolution was to read an important book every two weeks and discuss it with the Facebook community.

Zuckerberg's book club, A Year of Books, has focused on big ideas that influence society and business. For his 16th pick, he's gone with "The Varieties Of Religious Experience" by William James (1842-1919).

During his tenure at Harvard, James became the most famous American philosopher and psychologist of his time, and is still "considered by many to be the most insightful and stimulating of American philosophers," according to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy from the University of Tennessee.

From 1901-1902, James gave a series of lectures at the University of Edinburgh on why humans adhere to religion, and these were collected as "The Varieties of Religious Experience."

His writings explore the religious consciousness and the mechanics of how people use religion as a source of meaning, compelling them to move onward through life with energy and purpose.

Zuckerberg explains his latest book-club pick on his personal Facebook page:

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3. Reich

Could the Third Reich Happen Here?

The Nazis ruled by fear and Sir Richard Evans, probably our foremost authority on the Third Reich, explains how they did it and why that matters today.

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Could it happen here?
That question should never be far from our minds. The terrifying 12 years of the Third Reich in power remain an enigma. Even into the ’30s, Germany was one of the world’s most economically advanced and educated countries, homeland of Goethe, Beethoven, Schiller, and many among the most important and humane individuals and democratic achievements of modern life. How did that country and the German people produce Hitler, a brutal racial empire, a world war resulting in the deaths of tens of millions, and the Holocaust, with its sadistic, assembly line extermination of Europe’s Jews and other so-called “subhumans?”
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Doutrinação das escolas brasileiras

 5 exemplos de como a doutrinação ideológica atua na educação brasileira 

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Whiskey faz bem para a saúde

The 11 Health Benefits of Whisky The first confirmed accounts of whisky distillation are from the early 15th century, when the Irish and Scottish distilled it, calling it “Aqua Vitae” (Water of Life / Lively Water), for medicinal properties.  During the American Revolution, it was used as currency and George Washington even owned a distillery in Mount Vernon. During the Prohibition era (1920-1933), whisky was the only alcohol permitted for consumption, provided you had a doctor’s prescription.

The Health Benefits of Whiskey: Mais

Convite Premiere MisesBrasil

Blogs e Colunistas

Coluna

Rodrigo Constantino

Vem novidade “austríaca” por aí… são os tais ventos de mudança!

O Instituto Mises Brasil nasceu em 2007 da vontade de indivíduos de contribuírem para a realidade acadêmica brasileira.

Percebendo a negligência com que a academia nacional tratava grandes nomes da economia austríaca, os fundadores do Instituto buscaram trazer ao centro do debate o pensamento de Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Hans-Hermann Hoppe,Friedrich von Hayek, Henry Hazlitt,Hans Sennholz e outras grandes figuras dessa tradição, sempre ignoradas pelo mainstream brasileiro.

Assim, surgiu o Instituto Mises Brasil, trazendo ao público o que há de mais refinado e academicamente rigoroso na teoria econômica, filosófica e social dos séculos XX e XXI.

Nos últimos anos, muito do trabalho do Instituto se deu na publicação de material acadêmico, na formação de novos pesquisadores seguidores de Escola Austríaca e na realização de grandes eventos, como as sempre produtivas Conferências da Escola Austríaca (veja os vídeos das Conferencias de 2010, 2011, 2012 e 2014).

A notória qualidade do trabalho desempenhado pelo Instituto aliada à dedicação de seus colaboradores e parceiros garantiram-nos um surpreendente crescimento: em somente 7 anos de existência e atuação, a Escola Austríaca tornou-se já conhecida de grande parte dos estudantes e acadêmicos brasileiros. Sua metodologia e suas conclusões estão espalhadas pelas universidades brasileiras, algo inimaginável poucos anos atrás.

É em tom de comemoração e de boas expectativas para o futuro, portanto, que o Instituto Mises Brasil deseja anunciar as grandes novidades da organização para os próximos anos. A Première Mises Brasil, que acontecerá no dia 17 de agosto de 2015, será o grande evento austríaco do ano: além das importantes notícias sobre os planos do Instituto para 2016, estarão presentes também todas as ilustres personalidades congregadas pelo IMB.

A Première Mises Brasil acontecerá no dia 17 de agosto de 2015, às 19:30 horas, no Teatro Raul Cortez, na sede da Fecomércio-SP.

A entrada é franca.

Inscrição prévia aqui.

Petrobras

Petrobras Scandal Reveals Tactic of Hiding Behind Too Big To Fail Cloak of Protection

Posted By: Mark Melin

Oil was central to Brazil’s strategy, and that gave Petrobras a leading role in the nation’s growing influence — and pride of place. At one time it was the sixth-largest company in the world by market capitalization and accounted for roughly 10 percent of Brazil’s gross domestic product.
In Brazil, Petrobras’s plunge is so cataclysmic, according to analysts, that it is a major reason the economy is expected to contract by more than one percentage point this year. Unemployment is up, and Standard & Poor’s has cut the nation’s long-term debt rating to one notch above junk status.
All of this has provoked something that transcends outrage. Brazilians are in the midst of an identity crisis. Much of Brazil’s recently acquired cachet looks as if it was the product of fraud, and for an added touch of humiliation, a fraud cooked up at a company long regarded as an emblem of Brazil’s success and aspirations.
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Educação em marcha por trás

Perda de arrecadação

Dilma veta possibilidade de professor deduzir IR despesas com compra de livros

8 de agosto de 2015, 14h31

Ao sancionar a Lei 13.149/2015, que que corrigiu a tabela do Imposto de Renda da Pessoa Física de forma escalonada, de acordo com a faixa de renda do contribuinte, a presidente Dilma Rousseff vetou a possibilidade de professores e seus dependentes deduzirem do tributo despesas com aquisição de livros.
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Convite

Première Mises Brasil

17 Ago 19:30h Teatro Raul Cortez - Fecomercio

O Instituto Mises Brasil nasceu em 2007 da vontade de indivíduos de contribuírem para a realidade acadêmica brasileira. Percebendo a negligência com que a academia nacional tratava grandes nomes da economia austríaca, os fundadores do Instituto buscaram trazer ao centro do debate o pensamento de Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Friedrich von Hayek e outras grandes figuras dessa tradição, sempre ignoradas pelo mainstream brasileiro. Assim, surgiu o Instituto Mises Brasil, trazendo ao público o que há de mais refinado e academicamente rigoroso na teoria econômica, filosófica e social dos séculos XX e XXI.
Nos últimos anos, muito do trabalho do Instituto se deu na publicação de material acadêmico, na formação de novos pesquisadores austríacos e na realização de grandes eventos, como as sempre produtivas Conferências da Escola Austríaca. A notória qualidade do trabalho desempenhado pelo Instituto aliada à dedicação de seus colaboradores e parceiros garantiram-nos um surpreendente crescimento: em somente 7 anos de existência e atuação, a Escola
Austríaca tornou-se já conhecida de grande parte dos estudantes e acadêmicos brasileiros. Sua metodologia e suas conclusões estão espalhadas pelas universidades brasileiras, algo inimaginável poucos anos atrás.
É em tom de comemoração e de boas expectativas para o futuro, portanto, que o Instituto Mises Brasil deseja anunciar as grandes novidades da organização para os próximos anos. A Première Mises Brasil, que acontecerá no dia 17 de agosto de 2015, será o grande evento austríaco do ano: além das importantes notícias sobre os planos do Instituto para 2016, estarão presentes também todas as ilustres personalidades congregadas pelo IMB.
A Première Mises Brasil acontecerá no dia 17 de agosto de 2015, às 19:30 horas, no Teatro Raul Cortez, na sede da Fecomércio-SP. A entrada é franca.
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Sal não faz mal

More scientists doubt salt is as bad for you as the government says

For years, the federal government has advised Americans that they are eating too much salt, and that this excess contributes yearly to the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
But unknown to many shoppers urged to buy foods that are “low sodium” and “low salt,” this longstanding warning has come under assault by scientists who say that typical American salt consumption is without risk.
Moreover, according to studies published in recent years by pillars of the medical community, the low levels of salt recommended by the government might actually be dangerous.
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Pare de acreditar no governo

Da volta para o Brasil

Janio Is Coming: The Return of the Old, Unstable Brazil

BY Brian Winter | August 10, 2015

Tossing out President Dilma Rousseff with no evidence against her could reverberate for decades to come, writes AQ's editor-in-chief 

In 193 years of independence, Brazil has experienced just 44 years of full, representative democracy, from 1946 to 1964 and from 1989 to the present. During those years, one elected president shot himself through the heart; another abruptly resigned after seven months in office, got drunk and boarded a boat to Europe; another was impeached for corruption; still another was deposed by the military. All told, only once in the last 50 years has an elected Brazilian president handed power to another elected president from a different political party.
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Coleção global de dados

Our World In Data

Life around the world is changing rapidly – here you find the data visualizations that show you how.

Poverty, violence, health, education, the environment and much more.

Our World In Data covers a wide range of topics and visualizes the empirical evidence of how living standards changed over the last decades, centuries, and millennia.

A web publication authored by Max Roser.
(work in progress)

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Crescem as favelas (slums) nos Estados Unidos

Half a century after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty, the number of Americans living in slums is rising at an extraordinary pace.
The number of people living in high-poverty areas—defined as census tracts where 40 percent or more of families have income levels below the federal poverty threshold—nearly doubled between 2000 and 2013, to 13.8 million from 7.2 million, according to a new analysis of census data by Paul Jargowsky, a public-policy professor at Rutgers University-Camden and a fellow at The Century Foundation. That’s the highest number of Americans living in high-poverty neighborhoods ever recorded.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/americas-slums-are-exploding-2015-8#ixzz3iQGEi7vy

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1. I believe intellectual dishonesty is very widespread in economics, and indeed in other sciences as well. Not complete dishonesty, as when people completely make up results. That's pretty rare (I hope.) But Romer is trying to hold economists to higher standards than that, not just avoidance of outright lies, but also refraining from misleading claims.
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