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sexta-feira, 30 de setembro de 2016
Mitologias da história brasileira
Histórias mitológicas contam a evolução
"By and large, structures of mythical stories, which sometimes remain unchanged for thousands of years, closely parallel the history of large-scale human migratory movements. Ironically, phylogenetic analysis reveals that one of the most enchanting mythical stories of sudden transformation—the Pygmalion story—is a prime example of this stable pattern of evolution."
Schumpeter
– “Capitalismo estabilizado é uma contradição em termos” Joseph Alois…
terracoeconomico.com.br|Por Pedro Lula Mota
quinta-feira, 29 de setembro de 2016
Mais uma ideia absurda de Graeber
Anthropologist David Graeber: "The answer clearly isn’t economic: it’s moral and political. The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger (think of what started to happen when this even began to be approximated in the ‘60s)."
It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working.
evonomics.com|Por Evonomics
Escravidão na Grécia antiga
10 Fascinating Facts About Slavery In Ancient Greece
Listverse
How was it possible that slavery was so central in a society where individual freedom was so highly valued? This is one of the many paradoxes of ancient Greece . . . or maybe it’s not a paradox but a reflection of the fact that we can only value things based on contrast. Perhaps it was because of the fundamental role of slavery that ancient Greeks came to value individual freedom so much. This list presents 10 interesting facts linked to slavery in ancient Greece. 10 Slave Population There are no reliable figures available on the slave population in ancient Greece. Some scholars have made educated guesses, but the slave population varied significantly across different regions of Greece. Modern ...
quarta-feira, 28 de setembro de 2016
Poder de vontade
terça-feira, 27 de setembro de 2016
Sobre Alan Greenspan
""Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings into vivid focus the mysterious point where the government and the economy meet. To understand Greenspan's story is to see the economic and political landscape of the last 30 years--and the presidency from Reagan to George W. Bush--in a whole new light. As the most influ...
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A ilusão do Brexit
Business Insider Britain's economy is sluggish and unproductive, and will worsen with Brexit, according to a report from the Centre for European Reform (CER). The report, authored by Simon Tilford, disputes claims made by those campaigning to leave the European Union that Britain's economy was "dynamic and flexible," and had "little to risk" from a Brexit. Tilford argues that the UK's economic growth has actually been poor — we are no richer relative to the EU-15 average than we were 15 years ago, and the average Briton has to work more hours than the EU-15 average to achieve that income. The EU-15 are the fifteen countries who were members of the EU prior to 2004. Sluggish growth, terrible productivity At a ...
Cálculação econômica no socialismo
Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth | Ludwig von Mises https://t.co/diBTxOqUzh vía @feeonline
Lógica orwelliana
In many European countries, it's illegal for speech to "insult," "offend," or "incite hatred." E.U. leaders say this is to protect freedom of speech.
reason.com
Think Tanks libertários
Think tanks are attracting more followers on their Twitter, Facebook, and even…
forbes.com|Por Alejandro Antonio Chafuen
Cîencia neuronal
Corvids, such as crows, ravens, and magpies, are among the most intelligent birds on the planet—the list of their cognitive achievements goes on and on—yet neuroscientists have not scrutinized their brains for one simple reason: They don’t have a neocortex.
The animals of neuroscience research are an eclectic bunch, and for good reason.
nautil.us
Economia do Socialismo Soviético
Howard Zinn
"The tenet of radical history that has aged least well is its subordination of analytical problems to political sympathies. The New Left historians were hardly the first cohort of scholars to enlist history in the service of a political crusade or a social agenda. The idea was put forward, in different form, by the Progressive historians of Charles Beard’s time, notably James Harvey Robinson, and many subsequent schools and individuals later embraced it, including some of the... Cold War anti-Communists against whom the New Left historians were rebelling. Conversely, many scholarly-minded radical historians grasped the foolishness, even the danger, of allowing present-day politics to shape one’s readings of past events. It was Christopher Lasch who decried “the worst features of progressive historiography reappear[ing] under the auspices of the new left: drastic simplification of issues; … reading present concerns back into the past; strident partisanship.” Quoting Zinn’s directive for historians to decide “from a particular ethical base what is the action-need of the moment and to concentrate on that aspect of the truth-complex which fulfills that need,” Lasch growled: “In the face of such critics, the consensus historians need no defense.”"
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Educação vocacional
U.S. employers struggling to find enough qualified industrial workers are turning to Germany for a solution to plug the U.S. skills gap: vocational training.
wsj.com|Por Elizabeth Schulze
Mises Institute
Consider this, the Mises Institute today is “searched for” more around the world than such prominent beltway organizations as the Heritage Foundation, Brookings Institute, or the Council on Foreign Relations — and with a fraction of the budget of these establishment giants. The case can be made that no research organization in the world makes a bigger impact with its resources than the Mises Institute.
segunda-feira, 26 de setembro de 2016
Reformação
The year 1517 is considered one of those historical watersheds—like 1789, 1914, or 1968—at which Western societies took a radical turn away from hitherto prevailing political, economic, cultural, or religious settings. Such shifts, however, never come from nowhere. History’s time-bombs are invariabl...
libertylawsite.org
Fazer anotações
Fazer anotações durante a aula é uma das melhores técnicas de estudo https://t.co/G8rMgtUEW3 via @guiadoestudante
Fazer anotações durante a aula é uma das melhores técnicas de estudo
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