Educação

"... History courses aside, business schools need to change their tone more than their syllabuses. In particular, they should foster the twin virtues of scepticism and cynicism. Graduates in recent years, for example, seem to have accepted far too readily the notion that clever financial engineering could somehow abolish risk and uncertainty, when it probably made things worse. It is worth noting that such scepticism is second nature to the giants of financial economics, as opposed to the more junior propellerheads. Andrew Lo, of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, was fond of pointing out that in the physical sciences three laws can explain 99% of behaviour, whereas in finance 99 laws can explain at best 3% of behaviour..."
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Verdade e verdades

Irving Kristol about the neocon concept of truth: "There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work."^[5][7]

Estado e Integração: Palestra sobre a União Européia

O Desafio da Soberania
do Estado Nacional pela
União Monetária Européia"
Palestra do Prof. Antony
Mueller no XIX Simpósio
Transnacional de Estudos
Científicos na Universidade
Federal de Sergipe. 21-25
de Setembro de 2009
Data Show
Áudio Podcast

Palestra

Segunda-feira: 21.09.2009.
08:30h – Entrega de Credenciais.
09:00 h – Estado e Integração
Sessão de Abertura.
Palestra: . O Desafio da Soberania do Estado Nacional pela União Monetária Européia
Palestrante: Prof. Dr. Antony P. Mueller – UFS / Núcleo de Relações Internacionais – NURI.


Link para todo o programa

Cris financeira global

Entrevista:
A Crise Financeira Global de 2008-2009

Estado e Integração

Debate - 14/09/2009 ‘Estado e integração’ é tema de simpósio transnacional Evento pretende discutir a prática da extensão acadêmica para o Direito; inscrição acontece até o dia 21/9

A UFS promove, de 21 a 25 de setembro, o XIX Simpósio Transnacional de Estudos Científicos. Este ano o tema será o “Estado e integração”. Contará com palestrantes de diversas universidades brasileiras bem como de instituições de outros países.

Entre eles estarão os professores Jorge Bercholc e Gustavo Vivo, ambos da Universidade de Bueno Aires, que versarão sobre "A globalização e seu modelo de estratificação social" e "Federalismo Argentino", respectivamente.

As inscrições irão até o dia 21 de setembro no Departamento de Direito, localizado no CCSA. Custam R$ 15 ou R$ 30, a depender do número de horas de participação no evento (15 ou 30, respectivamente).

O simpósio pretende discutir a prática da extensão acadêmica para o Direito. Veja a programação aqui.

Paper sobre integração econômica e monetária

Antony Mueller:
"Implementing a Regional Gold Standard.
Lessons from European Monetary Integration"
Anais VII Encontro Internacional Forum Universitário Mercosul.
Foz do Iguaçu September 2009, pp. 135-191
Link

Conferência no UFS: Estado e Integração

PROGRAMA:
Segunda-feira: 21.09.2009.
08:30h – Entrega de Credenciais.
09:00 h – Estado e Integração
Sessão de Abertura.
Palestra: O Desafio da Soberania do Estado Nacional pela União Monetária Européia
Palestrante: Prof. Dr. Antony P. Mueller – UFS / Núcleo de Relações Internacionais – NURI.
Pte. Mesa: A indicar.
10:30 h – Pausa.
10:45 – Estado e Integração
Palestra: La globalización y su Modelo de Estratificación Social.
Palestrante: Prof. Dr. Jorge O. Bercholc – Univ. de Buenos Aires – UBA.
Pte. Mesa: Prof. Msc. José Lima Santana – UFS.
12:00h – Final do Turno.
19:00h – Estado e Integração
Palestra: Estado y Democracia: Un recorrido sobre distintos modelos democráticos.
Palestrante: Prof. Dr. Mario Daniel Serrafero – Univ. de Buenos Aires – UBA e Universidade Argentina da Empresa – UADE.
Pte. Mesa: Prof. Dr. Lucas Gonçalves da Silva – UFS.
20:30 – Pausa.
20:45 – Estado e Integração
Palestra: Responsabilidade Civil do Estado e a Violência Urbana.
Palestrante: Prof. Msc. João Hora Neto – UFS / Juiz de Direito em Sergipe.
Pte. Mesa: Prof. Dr. Henrique Ribeiro Cardoso – UFS.
22:00h –Final do Turno.
Terça-feira: 22.09.2009.
9:00 h – Estado e Integração.
Palestra:. O Brasil e a Integração Sul-Americana em Perspectiva Histórica.
Palestrante: Prof. Dr. Carlos Eduardo Vidigal – Universidade de Brasília – UNB.
Pte. Mesa: A indicar.
10:30h – Pausa – Café.
10:45 h – Estado e Integração
Palestra: Mercosul/Unasul: o difícil caminho da Integração Política.
Palestrante: Prof. Dr. Israel Roberto Barnabé – Núcleo de Relações Internacionais – UFS.
Pte. Mesa: A indcar.
12:00h – Final do Turno.
19:00 h – Estado e Integração.
Palestra: A Política Exterior Argentina no Governo Kirchner e o Brasil.
Palestrante: Prof. Dr. Carlos Eduardo Vidigal –Universidade de Brasília – UNB.
Pte. Mesa: A indicar.
20:30h – Pausa.
20:45 h – Estado e Integração.
Palestra: Democracias latinoamericanas, delegativas, condicionadas y de baja intensidad en el siglo XX.
Palestrante: Prof. Gabriel Macaggi – Universidade de Buenos Aires – UBA.
Pte. Mesa: A indicar.
22:00h – Final do Turno.
Quarta-feira – 23.09.2009
9:00 h – Estado e Integração.
Palestra: A Integração Latino-Americana: as origens e as contribuições segundo o Direito Internacional.
Palestrante: Profa. Dra. Eugenia Cristina Nilsen Ribeiro Barza – Faculdade de Direito - UFPE.
Pte. Mesa: Belª. Camila Gomes de Lima – Advogada.
10:30 h – Pausa.
10:45 – Estado e Integração
Palestra: Federalismo Argentino, entre la Frustración Permanente y el Desafío Constante.
Palestrante: Prof. Gustavo Alejandro Vivo – Universidade de Buenos Aires – UBA..
Pte. Mesa: Disc. Magson Melo Santos - UFS.
12:00h – Final do Turno.
19:00 h – Estado e Integração
Palestra: Direito de Integração e Comunitário: as diferentes modalidades de normatização jurídica da integração européia e latino-americana.
Palestrante: Profa. Dra. Eugenia Cristina Nilsen Ribeiro Barza – Faculdade de Direito da Univ. Fed. Pernambuco – UFPE.
Pte. Mesa: Belª. Camila Gomes de Lima – Advogada.
20:30h – Pausa.
20:45h – Estado e Integração
Palestra: Federalismo Argentino; los Estados Particulares en la Unión.
Palestrante: Prof. Gustavo Alejandro Vivo – Universidade de Buenos Aires – UBA.
Pte. Mesa: Disc Magson Melo Santos – UFS.
22:00h – Final do Turno.
Quinta-feira – 24.09.2009.
9:00 h – Estado e Integração.
Palestra: La Jurisdicción y Competencia Federal.
Palestrante: Profa. Dra. Martina Isabel Forns – Jueza Federal Argentina.
Pte. Mesa: A indicar.
10:30h – Pausa.
10:45h – Estado e Integração.
Palestra: Estado y Régimen Político: El presidencialismo latinoamericano en el siglo XXI.
Palestrante: Prof. Dr. Mario Daniel Serrafero – Univ. de Buenos Aires – UBA e Univ. Argentina da Empresa – UADE.
Pte. Mesa: A indicar.
12:00h – Final do Turno.
19:00 – Estado e Integração.
Palestra: Estatística Aplicada à Administração.
Palestrante: Prof. Msc. Daniel Francisco Neyra Castañeda – Univ. Fed. Sergipe – UFS.
Pte. Mesa: Prof. Robson Cosme de Jesus Alves - UFS.
20:30h – Pausa.
20:45h – Estado e Integração
Palestra: La Dinámica Política y Económica de la Globalización. Los Procesos de Integración Económica y Supranacionalidad Política.
Palestrante: Prof. Dr. Jorge O. Bercholc – Universidade de Buenos Aires – UBA.
Pte. Mesa: Prof. Esp. Osório de Araújo Ramos Filho – UFS – Desembargador TJSE.
22:00h – Final do Turno.
Sexta-feira – 25.09.2009.
09:00h – Estado e Integração
Palestra: A Constituição Federal de 1988 e os tratados internacionais de proteção de direitos humanos / O Papel dos Entes Públicos na Proteção dos Direitos Humanos.
Palestrantes: Prof. Dr. Lucas Gonçalves da Silva – UFS / Profa. Dra. Luciana Aboim Machado Gonçalves da Silva – UFS.
Pte. Mesa: A indicar.
10:30 – Pausa.
10:45 – Palestra: Matéria Internacional da Competência da Justiça Federal.
Palestrante: Dr. Vladimir Souza Carvalho – Desembargador Federal – TRF5.
Pte. Mesa: Prof. Esp. Edmilson da Silva Pimenta – UFS – Juiz Federal
19:00h – PANATHENAIA – Avete atque Valeto!
Palestra: Evolução Constitucional do Pacto Federativo no Brasil.
Palestrante: Prof. Msc. Carlos Augusto Alcântara Machado – UFS – Promotor de Justiça.
Pte. Mesa: A indicar.

Palestra sobre "A Ordem Econômica" em podcast de áudio

A Ordem
Econômica.
Considerações
paradigmáticas sobre o
desenvolvimento
socioeconômico além do
Estado Intervecionista de
Bem-Estar"
Antony Mueller, UFS, 26 de
Agosto 2009
Data Show "As Regras da
Ordem Econômica"
Audio Podcast "As Regras
da Ordem Econômica"

Link do site

Podcasts de Áudio: Sociologia Econômica

Sociologia Econômica
Métodos e Metodologia

Os Clássicos da Sociologia Econômica

Adam Smith: Economia e Sociedade

Schumpeter: O Capitalismo como Sistema Econômico de Inovação

Karl Marx: Economia e Sociedade -

Link para site

Sociologia na Suiça

Link para se informar sobre os temas que atualmente se trata em sociologia na Suiça:
Sociology in Switzerland

Em tempos de enganho

"In time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

Nolan Chart

 While the traditional political “left-right” spectrum is a line, the Nolan chart, created by David Nolan, is a plane, situating libertarianism in a wider gamut of political thought.

Contra propriedade intelectual

The Case Against IP: A Concise Guide

by Stephan Kinsella

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Cálculo da taxa de pobreza nos Estados Unidos

WASHINGTON – The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations in the cost of living.
The National Academy of Science's formula, which is gaining credibility with public officials including some in the Obama administration, would put the poverty rate for Americans 65 and over at 18.6 percent, or 6.8 million people, compared with 9.7 percent, or 3.6 million people, under the existing measure. The original government formula, created in 1955, doesn't take account of rising costs of medical care and other factors..." Leia mais

Freedom, Property, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, edited by Guido Hülsmann and Stephan Kinsella.

Lew Rockwell on Hans-Hermann Hoppe: "My first full exposure to the brilliance of Hans-Hermann Hoppe came at an early Mises University in which he gave the main lecture on methodology. Here he offered a new take on Mises’s Kantian method. Hoppe explained Kant’s typology of propositions, and showed how Mises had appropriated them but with a new twist.

Instead of categories of thinking and categories of the mind, Mises went further than Kant to delineate categories of action, which is the foundation of economic reasoning. In this lecture, we all discovered something about Mises we had not known, something bigger and grander than we knew, and it caused us to think differently about a subject that we thought we knew well.

This same Hoppean effect – that sense of having been profoundly enlightened by a completely new way of understanding something – has happened many times over the years. He has made contributions to ethics, to international political economy, to the theory of the origin of the state, to comparative systems, to culture and its economic relation, to anthropology and the theory and practice of war. Even on a subject that everyone thinks about but no one really seems to understand – the system of democracy – he clarified matters in a way that helps you see the functioning of the world in a completely new light..."

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Palestra

A palestra "As Regras da Ordem Econômica" está acessível, junto com o data show, no Internet em mp3 stream:
veja icon de audio para assistir: Link

Instituições e economia

Website "Institutions and economics" (também em espanhol):
http://www.uv.es/ecoinst/

Glossário: http://www.coase.org/nieglossary.htm

New institutional economics - lista de leitura

Lista de literatura sobre a nova teoria institucional:
http://coase.org/niereadinglist.htm

New Institutional Economics

Review article by Oliver Williamson
http://www.uv.es/~fatas/ipei/williamson_jel00.pdf

Frenetic mindlessness

"... According to Thomas Eriksen of the University of Oslo, author of Tyranny of the Moment, the electronic environment systematically favors "fast time" activities that require instant, urgent responses (email, cell phone calls, etc.) Such stimuli tend to crowd out "slow time activities" such as "reflection, play and long-term love relationships," said Levy.

Levy pointed out that this dynamic has an especially perverse effect in academia, which is supposed to be somewhat insulated from the larger society so that students and scholars can think more broadly and with longer range perspectives. But in fact, universities mirror the rest of society, and the dwindling time to think is as much a problem within the academy as anywhere else. As instrumental, short-term, applied goals take center-stage, our society has less access to the wisdom and complexity that deep, reflective thinking can provide. This is a major loss.

The ancients had a word for it: "leisure." In the original sense of the word, leisure was not a consumer-oriented activity like golfing or movie-going, or even "relaxation." It involved having time to ponder and reflect on the world. The words "school" and "scholar" have their etymological roots in the Greek and Latin words for these activities, Levy noted.

According to Josef Pieper, a German Catholic philosopher, "leisure is a form of stillness that is the necessary preparation for accepting reality; only the person who is still can hear, and whoever is not still cannot hear." Pieper, writing in the 1940s, worried about a world of "total work" that would make a "total claim upon the whole of human nature."

It's safe to say that that future has arrived. The very coinage of the term 24/7 and "real time" (usually as a virtue!) confirms the ubiquitous social reality of "total work." Fast-time activities absolutely crowd out slow-time alternatives. The now eclipses the timeless. And we are becoming diminished creatures in the process..." --

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Próxima reunião

Para completar a roda das apresentações, nos encontramos novamente no 1. de Julho as 14:00 horas.

Fim da aposentadoria

"WHEN Otto von Bismarck introduced the first pension for workers over 70 in 1889, the life expectancy of a Prussian was 45. In 1908, when Lloyd George bullied through a payment of five shillings a week for poor men who had reached 70, Britons, especially poor ones, were lucky to survive much past 50. By 1935, when America set up its Social Security system, the official pension age was 65—three years beyond the lifespan of the typical American. State-sponsored retirement was designed to be a brief sunset to life, for a few hardy souls.

Now retirement is for everyone, and often as long as whole lives once were. In some European countries the average retirement lasts more than a quarter of a century. In America the official pension age is 66, but the average American retires at 64 and can then expect to live for another 16 years. Average spending on public pensions across the OECD is now the equivalent of more than 7% of GDP (they cost America just 0.2% back in 1935). In some countries the current figure could double by 2050, to say nothing of the cost of private pensions and extra spending on health and long-term care..."

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Fragmentação - A desintegração do Estado

April & May 2009
Table of Contents

FEATURES:
The Power of Statelessness

By Jakub Grygiel

The withering appeal of governing

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Most political groups in modern history have wanted to build and control a state. Whether movements of self-determination in the 19th century, of decolonization in the post–World War II decades, or political parties advocating separatism in several Western states in the 1990s (e.g., Italy and Quebec) — all aimed at one thing: to have a separate state that they could call their own. The means they employed to achieve this end ranged from terrorism and guerilla warfare to political pressure and electoral campaigns, but the ultimate goal was the same — creation of its own state. It is the ultimate goal no longer, and it is likely to be even less so in the future. Many of today’s nonstate groups do not aspire to have a state. In fact, they are considerably more capable of achieving their objectives and maintaining their social cohesion without a state apparatus. The state is a burden for them, while statelessness is not only very feasible but also a source of enormous power. Modern technologies allow these groups to organize themselves, seek financing, and plan and implement actions against their targets — almost always other states — without ever establishing a state of their own. They seek power without the responsibility of governing. The result is the opposite of what we came to know over the past two or three centuries: Instead of groups seeking statehood through a variety of means, they now pursue a range of objectives while actively avoiding statehood. Statelessness is no longer eschewed as a source of weakness but embraced as an asset... Fonte

Educação ruim

O problema com a educação de hoje é falta completa de fragmentação e diferenciação. Enquanto no resto da sociedade temos mais e mais produtos e estilos de vida diferenciada, o sistema educacional (seja no Brasil ou, veja abaixo, nos Estado Unidos) ainda segue o modelo unitário do passado com a meta da clonagem das crianças individuais (neste contexto vale ver o filme de Pink Floyd "The Wall").

As Karen De Coster noted in her own discussion of the Bryce Harper story,

"The public education system, which is a disastrous, wealth-destroying, failed endeavor, is held up as the standard by which we must all live. You go where they tell you to go, stay at the educational level they put you at, advance when they tell you to advance, slog through what they put in front of you, believe what they tell you to believe, and finish your "education" at a chronological age that somebody somewhere determined should be the age when you should be set free to live out your life. Your innate ability, your desire, your interests, your foundational knowledge - none of that matters because public education is set up to equalize and collectivize children so that they are all on the same pre-determined schedule. Still, people are surprised each time they hear about a 15-year-old attending college or an 18-year-old graduating from college. They were taught that children should all advance together through the education system based on chronological age and do exactly what every other kid their age is doing. The masses never question the irrationality of such nonsense. And you wonder why the American educational system is producing mostly professional consumers, couch potatoes, and TV-watching, amusement-demanding, non-reading robots."

Ciência modesta

O físico francês Carlo Rovelli relativa o "progresso científico" em sua área.
Vale ler o pequeno texto. É em alemão, mas com "google translate" se pode facilmente ser traduzido:

"Wir können Tiere klonen, träumen von Stringtheorie und Parallelwelten. Doch was hat all das wirklich verändert? Nicht viel, meint der Physiker Carlo Rovelli. Echte Revolutionen passieren im Stillen - so wie die Erfindung des Traktors, der einst die Landwirtschaft und das gesamte Leben umkrempelte."

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-622717,00.html

Eu recomendo fortemente este artigo para vocês para ajudar perder a "adoração da ciência" que muitos brasileiros (com certeza aplica para CAPES) tem como uma fruta do ensino do positivismo nas escolas.

Use google's tradutor para ler o texto em Português: google translate.

O novo mundo de "citações"

1 - 10 of 750,000 for "The Bailout Reader"
veja neste e-book dois artigos de mim
- What's behind the financial market crisis?
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Estrutura de raza e casamento nos Estados Unidos

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Plano

1. Não vai ter aula nesta quarta. O tempo é preservado para preparar os trabalhos. Se tem perguntas, use e-mail antonymueller@gmail.com
2. Na próxima aula começamos com as apresentações
3. Entrega do texto completo é no final do semestre

Inovação

Seize the Silver Lining: A Checklist for Innovation

02:02 PM Monday June 08, 2009

By Susy Jackson

It's tough out there, but companies that think their choice is to innovate or to survive are missing the point. Innovation is a corporate necessity, not a nicety.

There's little doubt that innovation is going to become harder as resources become tighter and competition becomes fiercer. But, those companies that continue to focus on innovation have a rare chance to create substantial space between themselves and their competitors — those that don't will fall further and further behind.

The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times makes the case that today's turbulent times make mastering innovation a competitive necessity. The book aims to provide corporate innovators and entrepreneurs with practical guidance to seize the ample opportunities that still exist in today's markets.

The following 10-point checklist synthesizes The Silver Lining's key messages and provides practical guidance for leaders looking to realize opportunities in their markets. Each item links to a blog post describing the item in more depth.

Does your organization:

1. Recognize today's transformation imperative?
2. Have a handle on the future potential of innovation?
3. Have a process to prudently prune its innovation portfolio on a regular basis
4. Have clear consensus on the 1-3 top growth opportunities?
5. Always ask, "How does the customer define more?" before asking people to do more with less?
6. Match technological experiments ("can we?") with strategic experiments ("should we?")?
7. Constantly search to share the innovation load to de-risk innovation?
8. Have a plan to "love the low end" in existing and emerging markets?
9. Run an innovation factory with systems and structures to make innovation repeatable?
10. Have a plan to help leaders transform themselves?

History shows us that innovation flourishes, no matter how dark the times. Whether your company looks back and remembers today's troubled times as the beginning of the end or a kick-start to transformation depends on your actions. The choice is yours.

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