sábado, 31 de outubro de 2015

Classe média de volta


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Inflação sem mistérios

Inflação sem mistérios
novo vídeo didático de Antony Mueller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqLMZ3p3FW8&feature=youtu.be

Tipologia do processo inflacionário, análise dos determinantes de inflação, deflação e estagflação na perspectiva do modelo GSMS apresentada por Antony Muell...

História - uma disciplina de mentiras

Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Boston Tea Party

What people call history is really myth. History is a tale told by bloody conquerors, failed novelists, and small town football coaches earning their keep in public schools. It’s a system of power. He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. Court historians regard the myth as sacrosanct. They never question its veracity and are quick to deride anyone who voices doubt.
Americans spend their school years struggling to memorize names and dates. In the decades afterward, they take pride in the scattering of facts they manage to retain. So, of course, they get pretty upset when you show them most of those precious facts were lies.

Mais ricos ou mais iguais?

Os caminhos da justiça social: mais ricos ou mais iguais?

Por Daniel Duque e Pedro Menezes
O economista francês Thomas Piketty ficou famoso em meados de 2013-14 por seus estudos sobre a desigualdade, compilados no livro “Capital no Século XXI”. Seu trabalho gerou um grande alvoroço por apontar a existência de uma tendência natural de concentração de riqueza no capitalismo – que, segundo o autor, só seria resolvida após a aplicação de um imposto progressivo mundial sobre o patrimônio das pessoas.

sexta-feira, 30 de outubro de 2015

Roosevelt

What FDR said about Jews in private

His personal sentiments about Jews may help explain America's tepid response to the Holocaust.

April 07, 2013|By Rafael Medoff

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  • President Franklin Roosevelt sits at the steering wheel of his automobile in Warm Springs, Ga., on April 4, 1939, as he parried questions at an outdoor press conference.
President Franklin Roosevelt sits at the steering wheel of his automobile… (Associated Press )
In May 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the White House. It was 17 months after Pearl Harbor and a little more than a year before D-Day. The two Allied leaders reviewed the war effort to date and exchanged thoughts on their plans for the postwar era. At one point in the discussion, FDR offered what he called "the best way to settle the Jewish question."
Vice President Henry Wallace, who noted the conversation in his diary, said Roosevelt spoke approvingly of a plan (recommended by geographer and Johns Hopkins University President Isaiah Bowman) "to spread the Jews thin all over the world." The diary entry adds: "The president said he had tried this out in [Meriwether] County, Georgia [where Roosevelt lived in the 1920s] and at Hyde Park on the basis of adding four or five Jewish families at each place. He claimed that the local population would have no objection if there were no more than that."

Nova tabela de "micro agressão"


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Filósofo de carreira

Which philosopher would fare best in a present-day university?

They thought, therefore they were, and that was that. But if they’d been assessed by the Ref, who’d have got most stars?

Gender gap (diferência salárial entre mulheres e homens)

New BLS report on women’s earnings: Most of the 17.9% gender pay gap in 2013 is explained by age, marriage, hours worked

"15 milhões"

Após declarar em Comissão Especial na Câmara dos Deputados que 15 milhões de mulheres morrem por dia no Brasil - o que soma 5,475 bilhões de mulheres por ano - nossa equipe buscou informações sobre a Deputada comunista Alice Portugal.
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Novela sobre o comunismo soviético

Red Plenty Kindle Edition

The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late fifties, the magic seemed to be working.
Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came and went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan, every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche and sputniks would lead the way to the stars. It's about the scientists who did their best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending.

This is a novel of an economic concept, The Central Plan, set in the Soviet Union of the 50's and 60s. But it is a novel that uses semi-fictional characters to tell some real economic history. It is amusing and very readable, but it also comes with 50 page of explanatory notes and references, and with multi-page chapter introductions gently explaining Soviet dreams, hopes and economics.

It does an excellent job of explaining one of the central tragedies of the USSR, showing how an idealistic economic dream for making the world a better place foundered so dramatically. It seemed so obvious at the time: a planned economy, optimally coordinating all resources and production would clearly be so much more efficient than the chaos of capitalism. It would build a better, rosier world for everyone. Except...

Spufford uses fluid fictional scenes to gently tease out the hopes and contradictions of the period. We see the initial genuine utopian fervor that centralized planning is the Right Answer; then the defensive cunning of plant managers in manipulating the system; the hopeful attempts at mathematical optimizations; the desire to have some kind of pricing mechanism to drive rational decision making; the fear of the authorities of the social unrest caused by price swings; the slow drift from Khrushchev's brash wild optimism and even wilder plans, to the slow acceptance of defeat and stagnation under Brezhnev.

Spufford writes well and is often very amusing as he explores the foibles and hypocrisies of Soviet life. Yes, the central thread is all about economics, but fear not, it is cleverly told, with short vivid episodes exploring Soviet life as well as gently exposing the dreams and tragedies as idealized economics encounters the real world. For example, a wonderful triplet of short scenes exhibits the sly maneuvers of one factory's management to meet their assigned production goals. This starts with the slow revelation that they have sabotaged one of their own giant machines so that they will be allowed to upgrade it, and ends with their woeful discovery that they must replace it "as is" because the new upgraded machine would be cheaper. Cheaper? Yes, we learn how that can be a fatal barrier in a planned economy. Overall this is a very enjoyable work, both as a novel, and as an insightful exploration of a failed utopian vision.

quinta-feira, 29 de outubro de 2015

Terry Eagleton sobre o Marxismo

Big Ideas presents British literary and cultural theorist, Terry Eagleton. His lecture"Is Marxism a Theodicy?" was delivered at a conference on Historical Materialism at York University, on May 14, 2010
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O mito da ciência básica - inovação

The Myth of Basic Science

Does scientific research drive innovation? Not very often, argues Matt Ridley: Technological evolution has a momentum of its own, and it has little to do with the abstractions of the lab.

Innovation is a mysteriously difficult thing to dictate. Technology seems to change by a sort of inexorable, evolutionary progress, which we probably cannot stop—or speed up much either. And it’s not much the product of science. Most technological breakthroughs come from technologists tinkering, not from researchers chasing hypotheses. Heretical as it may sound, “basic science” isn’t nearly as productive of new inventions as we tend to think.

"Semites" e "Anti-Semites"

Semites and Anti-Semites: An Inquiry into Conflict and Prejudice New edition Edition

The Arab-Israeli conflict has unsettled the Middle East for over half a century. This conflict is primarily political, a clash between states and peoples over territory and history. But it is also a conflict that has affected and been affected by prejudice. For a long time this was simply the "normal" prejudice between neighboring people of different religions and ethnic origins. In the present age, however, hostility toward Israel and its people has taken the form of anti-Semitism-a pernicious world view that goes beyond prejudice and ascribes to Jews a quality of cosmic evil. First published in the 1980s to universal acclaim, Semites and Anti-Semites traces the development of anti-Semitism from its beginnings as a poison in the bloodstream of Christianity to its modern entrance into mainstream Islam. Bernard Lewis, one of the world's foremost scholars of the Middle East, takes us through the history of the Semitic peoples to the emergence of the Jews and their virulent enemies, and dissects the region's recent tragic developments in a moving new afterword. "A powerful and important work, beautifully written and edited, and based on a range of erudition (in the best sense) that few others, if any, could command."—George Kennan
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História do politicamente correto

A HISTÓRIA DO POLITICAMENTE CORRETO (LEGENDADO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5k7wA49n9I

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China termina política de uma criança só

"O Partido Comunista da China decidiu abolir a política do filho único, permitindo que casais tenham até dois filhos, informou nesta quinta-feira (29) a agência de notícias estatal Xinhua. A decisão do partido, tomada em reunião de cúpula iniciada na segunda-feira (26) para definir as diretrizes econômicas dos próximos cinco anos, representa uma importante mudança na política demográfica da China."
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quarta-feira, 28 de outubro de 2015

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