domingo, 5 de fevereiro de 2012
sábado, 4 de fevereiro de 2012
10 perguntas que levam ao sucesso
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1. Tenho certeza de que aqueles que eu amo se sentem amados?
2. Eu fiz algo hoje que contribuiu, minimamente, para um mundo melhor?
3. Tenho condicionado o meu corpo para ser mais forte e flexível?
4. Tenho revisto e afinado os meus planos para o futuro?
5. Eu atuei em privado com a mesma integridade que em público?
6. Tenho evitado as palavras e ações ruins?
7. Eu tenho feito algo de valor?
8. Ajudei alguém com menos condições?
9. Tenho preservado boas lembranças?
10. Eu me senti grato pelo fato de estar vivo?
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sexta-feira, 3 de fevereiro de 2012
Entrevista
5- Entrevista com Antony Mueller (em duas partes)
Nascido na Alemanha, Antony Mueller é PhD em economia pela Universidade de Nuremberg, professor do departamento de economia da Universidade de Sergipe, adjunct scholar do Mises Institute, fundador do The Continental Economics Institute, colunista do OrdemLivre.org e autor do blog Cash and Currencies. Nesta entrevista para o podcast do IMB, dividida em duas partes, Mueller explica por que governos, acadêmicos, economistas e manifestantes defendem como solução para a crise mais intervenção do estado, ou seja, mais daquilo que provocou a crise, argumenta pela importância da internet, que trabalha em favor da liberdade, estabelece uma contraposição teórica entre praxeologia e positivismo lógico, critica keynesianos e marxistas e conta como descobriu e por que decidiu estudar o pensamento Austríaco, e faz um panorama sobre os estudos das ciências econômicas e sociais na universidade. A corrupção do capialismo pelo corporativismo
Blaming Capitalism for Corporatism
Edmund S. Phelps and Saifedean Ammous
The term “capitalism” used to mean an economic system in which capital was privately owned and traded; owners of capital got to judge how best to use it, and could draw on the foresight and creative ideas of entrepreneurs and innovative thinkers. This system of individual freedom and individual responsibility gave little scope for government to influence economic decision-making: success meant profits; failure meant losses. Corporations could exist only as long as free individuals willingly purchased their goods – and would go out of business quickly otherwise.
Capitalism became a world-beater in the 1800’s, when it developed capabilities for endemic innovation. Societies that adopted the capitalist system gained unrivaled prosperity, enjoyed widespread job satisfaction, obtained productivity growth that was the marvel of the world and ended mass privation.
Now the capitalist system has been corrupted. The managerial state has assumed responsibility for looking after everything from the incomes of the middle class to the profitability of large corporations to industrial advancement. This system, however, is not capitalism, but rather an economic order that harks back to Bismarck in the late nineteenth century and Mussolini in the twentieth: corporatism.
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Pensamento binário, o euro e o ouro na análise do Pedro Schwartz
Pedro Schwartz, economista, politólogo y escritor, conversa con Marion Mueller sobre el pensamiento binario, la crisis del euro y de como el sistema monetario actual es el legado del abandono “temporal” por parte de Nixon del patrón intercambio-oro.
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quinta-feira, 2 de fevereiro de 2012
Metas da inflação
El objetivo de inflación se da contra el muro
Por Antony P. Mueller.
El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5885.
La crisis del mercado financiero no ha acabado sino que ha crecido hasta convertirse en una feroz crisis de la deuda soberana. Sin embargo, los autores de las políticas monetarias de las grandes economías continúan practicando el mismo tipo de política que ha llevado a la crisis. Siguiendo el modelo de los objetivos de inflación, continúan sin considerar la cantidad de dinero y el volumen y tipo de creación crediticia. Como hicieron antes, los banqueros centrales recortan los tipos de interés tan bajo como pueden. Pocos parecen recordar que el concepto de política monetaria de objetivo de inflación se adoptó bajo la premisa de que las tasas bajas y estables de inflación producirían estabilidad financiera y económica. La realidad no ha confirmado esta afirmación. Por el contrario, el objetivo de inflación fue esencial para producir la actual crisis financiera.
A grande divisão cultural da sociedade americana
The New American Divide By CHARLES MURRAY
The ideal of an 'American way of life' is fading as the working class falls further away from institutions like marriage and religion and the upper class becomes more isolated. Charles Murray on what's cleaving America, and why. America is coming apart. For most of our nation's history, whatever the inequality in wealth between the richest and poorest citizens, we maintained a cultural equality known nowhere else in the world—for whites, anyway. "The more opulent citizens take great care not to stand aloof from the people," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, the great chronicler of American democracy, in the 1830s. "On the contrary, they constantly keep on easy terms with the lower classes: They listen to them, they speak to them every day." Americans love to see themselves this way. But there's a problem: It's not true anymore, and it has been progressively less true since the 1960s... When Americans used to brag about "the American way of life"—a phrase still in common use in 1960—they were talking about a civic culture that swept an extremely large proportion of Americans of all classes into its embrace. It was a culture encompassing shared experiences of daily life and shared assumptions about central American values involving marriage, honesty, hard work and religiosity. Mais
Racismo brasileiro
Race in Brazil
Affirming a divide
Black Brazilians are much worse off than they should be. But what is the best way to remedy that?
Jan 28th 2012 | RIO DE JANEIRO
In the 2010 census some 51% of Brazilians defined themselves as black or brown. On average, the income of whites is slightly more than double that of black or brown Brazilians, according to IPEA, a government-linked think-tank. It finds that blacks are relatively disadvantaged in their level of education and in their access to health and other services. For example, more than half the people in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas (slums) are black. The comparable figure in the city’s richer districts is just 7%.Mais
Facebook IPO
Facebook may be a good bet for investors now; but regulatory problems lie ahead
Not necessarily. Facebook could soon boast one billion users, or one in seven of the world’s population. Last year it generated $3.7 billion in revenue and $1 billion in net profits. That is nowhere near enough to justify its price tag.
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Sorry, vegans, aqui é o café da manha ideal, diz nova pesquisa
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1262453/High-fat-bacon-eggs-breakfast-healthiest-start-day.html#ixzz1lGj39OiV
Sociologia do dinheiro
Aprende com Facebook como funciona a criação de riqueza no capitalismo moderno.
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O que o governo faz com a economia
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -- Ronald Reagan (1986)
Bolsa para Resident Fellowship do Instituto Mises EUA
| Apply Now for a Summer Resident Fellowship |
| The Mises Institute is now accepting applications for 2012 Summer Fellowships. Summer fellowships named in memory of Peg Rowley are available to graduate students, ABDs, and post-docs interested in scientific research in the Austrian School and classical liberalism. O.P. Alford III residency fellowships are available to exceptional undergraduates who have attended Mises University or other Mises Institute programs. These summer fellowships offer a unique opportunity for students to research and write in a particular area of specialization, under the direction of Mises Institute faculty. Conditions of fellowships vary, and can include accommodations in Auburn, study space, directed research, access to the libraries of the Mises Institute, admission to summer conferences, and a stipend. Fellowships begin May 21 and end August 1. Mais |
Como vencer a procrastinação
Procrastinação é um distúrbio crônico e prejudicial, mas fácil de ser vencido
Por Alessandro Vianna, especial para o Yahoo! Brasil | Yahoo! BrasilProcrastinar é algo de que pouco se fala, mas que muito se faz. Embora "embromação" possa ser um de seus quase sinônimos populares, a procrastinação vai um pouco além disso. É um comportamento crônico nocivo, embora muito comum.
É aquele hábito de deixar tudo para depois: uma tarefa "chata", os estudos, o regime alimentar, as práticas físicas, o abandono de um vício, passar a economizar – coisas que sabemos que precisamos fazer, mas que, por inúmeras razões, ficamos adiando; muitas vezes nos enganando com desculpas frágeis e, não raro, falsas. O procrastinador é alguém faz várias coisas ao mesmo tempo, exatamente para não fazer aquilo que realmente deve ser feito. Quando pensa no que de fato tem de fazer, sente-se preso e sem reação.
As consequências não raro são danosas, especialmente a longo prazo, quando, olhando pra trás, se percebe quanto tempo foi jogado fora por falta de ação objetiva.
É aquele hábito de deixar tudo para depois: uma tarefa "chata", os estudos, o regime alimentar, as práticas físicas, o abandono de um vício, passar a economizar – coisas que sabemos que precisamos fazer, mas que, por inúmeras razões, ficamos adiando; muitas vezes nos enganando com desculpas frágeis e, não raro, falsas. O procrastinador é alguém faz várias coisas ao mesmo tempo, exatamente para não fazer aquilo que realmente deve ser feito. Quando pensa no que de fato tem de fazer, sente-se preso e sem reação.
As consequências não raro são danosas, especialmente a longo prazo, quando, olhando pra trás, se percebe quanto tempo foi jogado fora por falta de ação objetiva.
Entrevista com Fukuyama sobre capitalismo e globalização
SPIEGEL: Professor Fukuyama, you are best known for your essay "The End of History," in which you declared that, after the demise of the Soviet Union, liberal democracy had emerged as the triumphant global model. Now, your latest research claims that the flaws of capitalism and globalization could endanger this democratic model. How do you explain this shift?
Fukuyama: Capitalism is the wrong word to use here, because there is not a viable alternative to capitalism. What we are really talking about is just economic growth and the development of modern economic societies. A combination of factors is beginning to challenge their progress in the United States. We have had a lot of technological change that substituted for low-skill labor and made many people in Western democracies lose their jobs.
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quarta-feira, 1 de fevereiro de 2012
ACTA não!
In a remarkable resignation statement, the man responsible for the EU’s ACTA negotiations has resigned, blasting the document as secrative and un-democratic.
Kader Arif, rapporteur for ACTA in the European Parliament quit his role as rapporteur saying:
”I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner the entire process that led to the signature of this agreement: no inclusion of civil society organisations, a lack of transparency from the start of the negotiations, repeated postponing of the signature of the text without an explanation being ever given, exclusion of the EU Parliament’s demands that were expressed on several occasions in our assembly.”
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Kader Arif, rapporteur for ACTA in the European Parliament quit his role as rapporteur saying:
”I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner the entire process that led to the signature of this agreement: no inclusion of civil society organisations, a lack of transparency from the start of the negotiations, repeated postponing of the signature of the text without an explanation being ever given, exclusion of the EU Parliament’s demands that were expressed on several occasions in our assembly.”
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Projeto governança de Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama
Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
What is Governance?
by Francis Fukuyama
I’m beginning a new project at Stanford/CDDRL called “The Governance Project.” The intention is to focus on conceptualizing and measuring governance, and applying those measures to two specific countries, China and the United States.
The beginning point of the project is definition of governance that excludes the degree to which governments are either democratic or subject to a rule of law that constrains the executive. The reason for this is simple: it seems obvious to me that countries can be better or worse governed regardless of whether they are liberal democracies or not. Singapore is not Zimbabwe, despite the fact that neither is democratic. Separating the quality of the state from either the rule of law or democratic accountability is one of the foundational ideas in The Origins of Political Order.
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Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
What is Governance?
by Francis Fukuyama
I’m beginning a new project at Stanford/CDDRL called “The Governance Project.” The intention is to focus on conceptualizing and measuring governance, and applying those measures to two specific countries, China and the United States.
The beginning point of the project is definition of governance that excludes the degree to which governments are either democratic or subject to a rule of law that constrains the executive. The reason for this is simple: it seems obvious to me that countries can be better or worse governed regardless of whether they are liberal democracies or not. Singapore is not Zimbabwe, despite the fact that neither is democratic. Separating the quality of the state from either the rule of law or democratic accountability is one of the foundational ideas in The Origins of Political Order.
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Desmistificar Churchill
Patrick Buchanan explica: "A Europa, o continente-mãe do Ocidente, está hoje em decadência e morrendo, incapaz de sustentar as taxas de fecundidade necessárias para manter o continente vivo, ou para resistir à conquista estrangeira de uma invasão de imigrantes oriundos do Terceiro Mundo. O que houve com as nações que, há apenas um século, controlavam o mundo?
Em meu livro Churchill, Hitler and 'The Unnecessary War': How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World (edição no Brasil: Churchill, Hitler e a "Guerra Desnecessária": como a Grã-Bretanha perdeu seu império e o Ocidente perdeu o mundo), argumento que foram os colossais erros de estadistas britânicos, sendo Winston Churchill o principal deles, que transformaram duas guerras europeias em guerras mundiais que ainda se comprovarão as responsáveis pelas feridas mortais do Ocidente...
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Em meu livro Churchill, Hitler and 'The Unnecessary War': How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World (edição no Brasil: Churchill, Hitler e a "Guerra Desnecessária": como a Grã-Bretanha perdeu seu império e o Ocidente perdeu o mundo), argumento que foram os colossais erros de estadistas britânicos, sendo Winston Churchill o principal deles, que transformaram duas guerras europeias em guerras mundiais que ainda se comprovarão as responsáveis pelas feridas mortais do Ocidente...
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Revolução da educação superior
Has the Higher-Ed Revolution Begun?
By Charlotte Allen
It's happening, almost overnight: what could be the collapse of the near-monopoly that traditional brick-and-mortar colleges and universities currently enjoy as respected credentialing institutions whose degrees and grades mean something to employers.
The most dramatic development, just a few days ago, was the decision of robotics-expert Sebastian Thrun to resign from his position as a tenured professor of computer science at Stanford in order to start an online university he calls Udacity that he hopes will reach hundreds of thousands of students who either can't afford Stanford's $40,000-a-year tuition or who can't travel thousands of miles to one of the bricks-and-mortar classes he used to teach.
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By Charlotte Allen
It's happening, almost overnight: what could be the collapse of the near-monopoly that traditional brick-and-mortar colleges and universities currently enjoy as respected credentialing institutions whose degrees and grades mean something to employers.
The most dramatic development, just a few days ago, was the decision of robotics-expert Sebastian Thrun to resign from his position as a tenured professor of computer science at Stanford in order to start an online university he calls Udacity that he hopes will reach hundreds of thousands of students who either can't afford Stanford's $40,000-a-year tuition or who can't travel thousands of miles to one of the bricks-and-mortar classes he used to teach.
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A conexão entre dinheiro e a bolsa de valores
Kel Kelly explica: "... The most important economic and financial indicator in today's inflationary world is money supply. Trying to anticipate stock-market and GDP movements by analyzing traditional economic and financial indicators can lead to incorrect forecasts. To rely on these "fundamentals" is to largely ignore the specific economic forces that most significantly affect those same fundamentals — most notably the changes in the money supply. Therefore, following monetary indicators would be the best insight into future stock prices and GDP growth."
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Cansado do facebook
Why I Have Facebook Fatigue
By JP Mangalindan
"... I used to "Like" statuses hoping friends returned the favor, retouch "Photos of Me" before they went up, untag those that didn't portray me in a petroleum-slathered, soft light. (For the most part, I still do.) Worst of all, I spent hours crawling "Friends You May Know," building up a legion of 1,325 friends and 11,370 subscribers. Some of these people really are friends. Some are people I may have come across at work, gone to school with, dated or wished I'd dated. Others still are likely Fortune readers, to whom I am grateful. So it's safe to say Facebook awakened and armed a narcissistic beast in me..."
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Comentário: Neste semana acontece o grande IPO do facebook quando a empresa se torna pública para acionistas. Os donos ganham uma fortuna mas acho que os compradores das ações fazem mau negócio. O grande tempo de facebook já passou. Muitos já estão bastante cansados com facebook.
By JP Mangalindan
"... I used to "Like" statuses hoping friends returned the favor, retouch "Photos of Me" before they went up, untag those that didn't portray me in a petroleum-slathered, soft light. (For the most part, I still do.) Worst of all, I spent hours crawling "Friends You May Know," building up a legion of 1,325 friends and 11,370 subscribers. Some of these people really are friends. Some are people I may have come across at work, gone to school with, dated or wished I'd dated. Others still are likely Fortune readers, to whom I am grateful. So it's safe to say Facebook awakened and armed a narcissistic beast in me..."
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Comentário: Neste semana acontece o grande IPO do facebook quando a empresa se torna pública para acionistas. Os donos ganham uma fortuna mas acho que os compradores das ações fazem mau negócio. O grande tempo de facebook já passou. Muitos já estão bastante cansados com facebook.
Corrupção acadêmica
College administrator resigns over fake SAT scores
By AMY TAXIN | Associated Press –
A senior administrator at Claremont McKenna College resigned after acknowledging that he falsified college entrance exam scores for years to publications responsible for ranking the small school among universities, an official said.
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Comentário: "Ranking" funciona quando os critérios estão definidos claramente (segundos na corrida e 100 metros, gols no futebol, etc.), mas em outras áreas indicadores produzem decepções quando o ranking serve como um instrumento de controle e marketing.
By AMY TAXIN | Associated Press –
A senior administrator at Claremont McKenna College resigned after acknowledging that he falsified college entrance exam scores for years to publications responsible for ranking the small school among universities, an official said.
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Comentário: "Ranking" funciona quando os critérios estão definidos claramente (segundos na corrida e 100 metros, gols no futebol, etc.), mas em outras áreas indicadores produzem decepções quando o ranking serve como um instrumento de controle e marketing.
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