segunda-feira, 31 de outubro de 2016

Mengzi

"Also known as ‘Mencius’ (the Latinisation of his name given by early Jesuit missionaries), Mengzi is attracting renewed interest among Western philosophers. Not only does Mengzi provide an intriguing alternative to Aristotelian accounts of the virtues and their cultivation, but his claims about human nature are supported by recent empirical research. Beyond the intrinsic philosophical interest of Mengzi’s thought, it behooves us to learn more about it because Chinese culture is increasingly abandoning the radical Marxism of the Mao era and returning to a reverence for traditional systems of thought such as Confucianism."
Confucian philosopher Mengzi provides an intriguing (and oddly modern)…
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Teoria de valor do trabalho

The Marxist critique of capitalism depends on a defunct understanding of economics.
FEE.ORG|POR STEVEN HORWITZ

domingo, 30 de outubro de 2016

Os vikings

The last battle of the Vikings - Fighting The Scots!
It was the age of the Great Mongol Khans. It was the age of Byzantium, of the Holy Roman Empire. The wars of the Reconquista…
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Theodore Dalrymple


O polêmico psiquiatra e ensaísta inglês, que se assume conservador, diz que o mundo contemporâneo vive a embriaguez do conforto material
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Pobreza global 1990-2015


O oeste selvagem não era selvagem


Ryan McMaken provides a sweeping roundup of false perceptions of the American West. The story is not one of unrelenting violence but of hard work, trade, peace, and the tedium of daily life. The development of the West was not dependent on…
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Pirâmida da renda de famílias do Brasil

Mormons

10 Common Misconceptions About Mormonism

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Grandes batalhas da história

Some battles echo throughout history. But while most people have heard of Waterloo or Stalingrad, plenty of other decisive confrontations have been all but forgotten. Here are 10 such battles that changed the course of history. 10Battle Of The Delta From 1276 to 1178 BC, the ancient Mediterranean world was terrorized by the mysterious Sea People. Although they are often referred to as pirates or raiders, many historians now believe that the Sea People represented a major population movement fleeing from the famine and turmoil that contributed to the Late Bronze Age collapse. The Sea People overran the mighty Hittite Empire and other regions of the ancient world. After defeating the Hittites,

Catolicismo

Calling Catholicism A 'Middle Ages Dictatorship' Is Laughably Ignorant

The Federalist 2 hours 3 minutes ago

sábado, 29 de outubro de 2016

Ortodoxia radical

"Milbank, together with Graham Ward and Catherine Pickstock, has helped forge a new trajectory in constructive theology known as "Radical Orthodoxy"—a predominantly Anglo-Catholic approach which is highly critical of modernity."
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A lecture given by John Milbank, the head of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham (England) and the founder and leader of…
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Bitcoin

Bitcoin conquered its temporary price barrier to reach over $700 USD for the first time since the first day of Summer.
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sexta-feira, 28 de outubro de 2016

Boicote

Charles Boycott was so hated by the community that he is the eponym for the English verb boycott
A boycott is an organized, deliberate effort by consumers, workers, or businesses to avoid trade that benefits another group, business, or an entire countr
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Política contra judiciário


O senador Roberto Requião (PMDB-PR) sugeriu que o poder judiciário seja investigado por uma Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito (CPI) no Congresso…
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A justiça brasileira e o pobre brasileiro

Escultura do dinamarquês Jens Galschiot!!

Uma justiça obesa, mórbida, sendo carregada por um povo miserável, magro, de olhos fundos.

Ficaria muito bem na Praça dos Três Poderes, em Brasília

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Economia contra ecologia

“Economics is not a science – it doesn’t even include the earth in its equations. Economics is not based in anything like the real world.”
David Suzuki says 'economics' is not a science and doesn't make sense in the real world.

Produção, consumo e abientalismo

http://www.capitalism.net/.../Production_v_Consumption.html
A critique of environmentalism from the perspective of economic theory and Objectivist philosophy.
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Consumerismo é keynesianismo

"One of the most pernicious and widespread economic fallacies is the belief that consumption is the key to a healthy economy. We hear this idea all the time in the popular press and casual conversation, particularly during economic downturns. People say things like, “Well, if folks would just start buying things again, the economy would pick up” or “If we could only get more money in the hands of consumers, we’d get out of this recession.” This belief in the power of consu...mption is also what has guided much of economic policy in the last couple of years, with its endless stream of stimulus packages.
"This belief is an inheritance of misguided Keynesian thinking. Production, not consumption, is the source of wealth. If we want a healthy economy, we need to create the conditions under which producers can get on with the process of creating wealth for others to consume, and under which households and firms can engage in the saving necessary to finance that production.
"It’s tempting to say that this is really a “chicken and egg” problem; after all, what good is it to produce things if there’s no one there to consume them? The way out of this circle is to recognize that we only have the power to consume if we have produced and sold something in order to acquire the means to engage in consumption. Starting the analysis with consumption assumes one has already acquired means. Contrary to that analysis, wealth is created through acts of production that rearrange resources in ways people value more than alternative arrangements. These acts are financed with savings that come from households refraining from consumption.
"Putting more resources in the hands of consumers through a government stimulus package fails precisely because the wealth so transferred ultimately has to come from producers. This is obvious when the spending is financed by taxation, but it’s equally true for deficit spending and inflation. With deficit spending the wealth comes from producers’ purchases of government bonds. With inflation it comes proportionately from holders of dollars (obtained through acts of production) whose purchasing power is weakened by the excess supply of money. In neither case does government create wealth. Nor does consumption. The new ability to consume still originates in prior acts of production. If we want real stimulus, we need to free up producers by creating a more hospitable environment for production and not penalize the saving that finances them."
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One of the most pernicious and widespread economic fallacies is the belief that consumption is the key to a healthy economy.
fee.org|Por Steven Horwitz

O perigoso judiciário do Brasil

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Debate em Paris discute o protagonismo "perigoso" do Judiciário no Brasil

O juiz Sérgio Moro, autor de "incriminações seletivas" durante a operação Lava-Jato, segundo especialistas em debate na SciencesPo, em Paris.AFP PHOTO/EVARISTO SA
 O Observatório Político da América Latina e Caribe (OPALC), do Instituto de Ciências Políticas de Paris (SciencesPo), reuniu três especialistas nesta quinta-feira (27) para discutir a crise política no Brasil, além dos "superpoderes" da magistratura brasileira, entre outros efeitos colaterais do esgotamento do "presidencialismo de coalizão".
No menu do encontro, temas como a tradição política da destituição de presidentes na América Latina, as causas e consequências da ultrapolarização política da sociedade civil brasileira, as fricções entre as narrativas que tentam relatar o episódio do impeachment de Dilma Rousseff e o surgimento de uma nova “entidade” reguladora de poder: o Judiciário brasileiro, cada vez mais politizado, que toma para si de maneira perigosa as decisões primordiais da Nova República do século 21, segundo afirmaram os especialistas reunidos no seminário “A crise no Brasil”.
Para o cientista político Aníbal Pérez-Liñan, é de fundamental importância entender “a destituição de Dilma Rousseff no contexto latino-americano”. O professor da Universidade de Pittsburgh lembrou que, entre o impeachment de Fernando Collor de Mello, em 1992, e o de Rousseff, em 2016, nada menos do que oito presidentes da República foram depostos pelo poder Legislativo no continente: Carlos Pérez, na Venezuela, em 1993; Abdalá Bucaram, no Equador, em 1997; Raúl Cubas, no Paraguai, em 1999; Lúcio Gutiérrez, no Equador, em 2005; Fernando Lugo, no Paraguai, em 2012, e Otto Pérez Molina, na Guatemala, em 2015, além dos dois chefes de Estado brasileiros.
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quinta-feira, 27 de outubro de 2016

Publicações acadêmicas


Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors.
fee.org|Por Daniel Lattier 
- Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors.

So what’s the reason for this madness? Why does the world continue to be subjected to just under 2 million academic journal articles each year?


Tudo é manipulado

EVERYTHING IS RIGGED: Medicine, science, elections, the media, money, education, search engines, social media... you are living in a fabricated fairy tale
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Mito matemática

The Harvard PhD and data scientist talks about her new book and ponders how people’s fear and trust of math is akin to worshipping God
theguardian.com|Por Mona Chalabi

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Little could Alexander Solzhenitsyn have known when he languished as one of the many millions in the Soviet prison system that he would outlive the Soviet system…
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Vida no Egipto antigo

10 Truly Disgusting Facts About Life In Ancient Egypt


quarta-feira, 26 de outubro de 2016

Mencken

"Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was a German-American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006...
"Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century. As a scholar Mencken is known for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English lan...
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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was a German-American…
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Como enriquecer o mundo

Just 10% of people aged 20-24 are out of work or not in school in Germany. As befits Germany’s reputation for efficiency and industrial success, this is one of the lowest levels in the world. If all 35 OECD countries reduced youth unemployment to German levels, the economic gain would be $1.1 trillion, according to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers

Germany leads the world in youth employment and training.
qz.com|Por Eshe Nelson

Economia americana perde dinâmica



The U.S. economy is inching along, productivity is flagging and millions of Americans appear locked out of the labor market.One key factor intertwined with this loss of dynamism: The U.S. is creating startup businesses at historically low rates.
wsj.com|Por Jeffrey Sparshott

Karl Marx

Mikhail Bakunin sobre Karl Marx:
He is extremely ambitious and vain, quarrelsome, intolerant, and absolute, like Jehovah, the Lord God of his ancestors, and like him, vengeful to the point of madness. There is no lie or calumny that he would not invent or disseminate against anyone who had the misfortune to arouse his jealousy or his hatred, which amounts to the same thing.

Novo ensino

Roger Schank: “El álgebra es como una religión y no enseña a pensar”

Experto en Inteligencia Artifical y exprofesor en Yale, aboga por un cambio radical en la educación con programas abiertos

R. El álgebra es como una religión, todo el mundo cree que tiene beneficios pero no existe evidencia científica. No te podría decir la cantidad de personas que me han dicho que el álgebra enseña a pensar mejor, cuando no existe ninguna investigación que lo demuestre. Por eso digo que es como una religión; te dicen que Jesús visitó una montaña y, aunque no hay evidencias, la gente lo cree. Una vez terminado el instituto, nadie recuerda esos temas porque son inútiles y el 99% de los adultos nunca los han utilizado. Muchos estudiantes se sienten idiotas por no entender ese tipo de contenidos, genera frustración, hace a la gente llorar e incluso abandonar la escuela.

Fim da universidade

El experto en innovación y miembro de Singularity University, la universidad de Silicon Valley, cree que la certificación ya no es útil
ECONOMIA.ELPAIS.COM|POR ANA TORRES MENÁRGUEZ

Como o banco central comprou os economistas

Reserve Board itself, plus the usual groupthink in academia.
The Federal Reserve, through its extensive network of consultants, visiting scholars, alumni and staff economists, so thoroughly dominates the field of e...
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Democracia

“Democracy,” H. L. Mencken once said, “is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” He also famously defined an election as “an advance auction sale of stolen goods.”
FEE.ORG|POR LAWRENCE W. REED

terça-feira, 25 de outubro de 2016

Fora do PIB

Google and Facebook contribute zero economic value. That’s a big problem for trade.

Washington Post Mon, Oct 24 

Análise das metas da politica macroeconômica

Apresentação sobre as metas da política macroeconômica
Apresentação de Antony Mueller, Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), sobre as metas da política macroeconômica no 24 de Outubro de 2016
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A regra do Taylor para a taxa de juros

Regra do Taylor
Apresentação de Antony Mueller sobre a "Regra do Taylor" Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS) 24 de Outubro de 2016
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