O Professor Iraci del Nero da Costa gentilmente recomendou os seguintes sites para consulta de trabalhos nas áreas de história econômica e critica política.
Iraci del Nero da Costa: trabalhos publicados - São Paulo - SP
Trabalhos publicados pelo autor nas áreas de história demográfica e econômica do Brasil.
NEHD - Núcleo de Estudos em História Demográfica - São Paulo - SP
O NEHD reúne pesquisadores universitários votados ao estudo da história demográfica (demografia histórica) e da história econômica do Brasil e das demais nações latino-americanas. Mantém publicações eletrônicas acadêmicas oferecidas gratuitamente a todos os interessados.
Boletim de Crítica Política - São Paulo - SP
Boletim eletrônico votado à crítica política. Nele publicam-se crônicas nas quais consideram-se tanto as questões que dizem respeito às relacões internacionais como as concernentes ao Brasil, sua economia, sua vida política e os problemas defrontados por sua população.
REVER: Boletim de Crítica Histórica - São Paulo - SP
Boletim eletrônico votado à crítica do conhecimento histórico e dos fundamentos teóricos e metodológicos da história social, econômica e demográfica.
Um país que evoluiu da oca e senzala ao abismo, barbárie e caos, sem ter experimentado a civilização
Friday, September 28, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Fechem os Departamentos de Literatura!
Sir Vidia Naipaul, vencedor do premio Nobel de literatura de 2001, pediu o fechamento dos departamentos de literatura inglesa. Corretamente ele disse que esse pessoal só fala besteira. Professor de literatura que não sabe escrever é a mesma coisa que crítico de vinho que não sabe fazer vinho, ou crítico de cinema que não sabe filmar e nunca dirigiu um filme. Nas selvas do mundo esses “profissionais” são considerados intelectuais e respeitados pelo conhecimento que não possuem. Verdadeiros reis da cocada preta [ou branca, para ser politicamente correto].
Friday, September 21, 2007
O Ibis do Baseball
Impressionante... so falta o pior time de todos os tempos, o Phillies, tirar o Mets dos playoffs.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Show de Bola
Adolfo Sachsida dá um show de bola, aliás de economia, explicando porque as empresas privadas têm muito o que aprender com os clubes de futebol brasileiros. Ele só esqueceu de mencionar a postura dos clubes relativamente aos impostos.
Columbia University
A Columbia University está fazendo um esforço infinito para se transformar numa espécie de Unicamp americana.
Mourinho sai do Chelsea
Time sem camisa é assim mesmo, quando começa a ganhar alguma coisa entra em parafuso e dá um tiro no pé.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
O Ranking da Fifa
O Brasil ficou atras da Italia e da Argentina no ranking da Fifa. Precisamos de um especialista para explicar tal aberração. Como o Brasil pode ficar atrás da Argentina se acabou de ser campeão sul-americano dando um chocolate em cima dela?! Somente uma mente privilegiada, talvez um jornalista da Folha de São Paulo, seja capaz de explicar os segredos matematicos do calculo desse ranking...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Benefícios da Estabilidade Econômica
Reportagem da BBC mostrando os benefícios da estabilidade econômica. Obviamente para os economistas da "Economia Achada no Lixo" isso não faz sentido, para eles é impossível crescer sem inflacionar a economia.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Nike, Veblen e Pobreza Cultural
Neste post do Marginal Revolution, há uma miríade de temas importantes para pesquisa:
"Several years ago Bill Cosby chided poor blacks for spending their limited incomes on high-priced shoes and other items of conspicuous consumption instead of investing in education. Cosby was widely criticized but I went to the numbers, specifically Table 2100 of the Consumer Expenditure Survey and found the following for 2003:
Average income of whites and other races: $53,292.
Average income of blacks: $34,485.
Expenditures on footwear by whites and other races: $274
Expenditures on footwear by blacks: $440.
As I noted then "to do a proper comparison we would have to correct for income and other demographic variables." The correction has now been done by three researchers in an NBER working paper (non-gated version). The results didn't surprise me. How about you?
Using nationally representative data on consumption, we show that Blacks and Hispanics devote larger shares of their expenditure bundles to visible goods (clothing, jewelry, and cars) than do comparable Whites. We demonstrate that these differences exist among virtually all sub-populations, that they are relatively constant over time, and that they are economically large.
To give the authors credit where credit is due they also show that the differences in conspicuous consumption are large and important. The differences in spending on clothing, jewelry, and cars, for example, can explain half of the differences in wealth between the races (conditional on permanent income) and a significant share of the differences in education and health spending.
Why do these differences exist? Aside from simple differences in preferences, signaling is one possible explanation. Suppose that high income confers status. Other people judge your income based on your conspicuous consumption and your group's income. Under plausible conditions, the authors show that if your group's income is already high conspicuous consumption has a low marginal product. Put differently a black man who wears a very expensive suit gets a bigger increase in status than a white man who wears the same expensive suit because the baseline income prediction is lower for the former.
The theory is plausible but I wonder if other groups haven't converged on more efficient methods of signaling. Some groups, for example, use education as a signal. Other groups like to show how clever they are by writing pithy summaries of new economics research".
"Several years ago Bill Cosby chided poor blacks for spending their limited incomes on high-priced shoes and other items of conspicuous consumption instead of investing in education. Cosby was widely criticized but I went to the numbers, specifically Table 2100 of the Consumer Expenditure Survey and found the following for 2003:
Average income of whites and other races: $53,292.
Average income of blacks: $34,485.
Expenditures on footwear by whites and other races: $274
Expenditures on footwear by blacks: $440.
As I noted then "to do a proper comparison we would have to correct for income and other demographic variables." The correction has now been done by three researchers in an NBER working paper (non-gated version). The results didn't surprise me. How about you?
Using nationally representative data on consumption, we show that Blacks and Hispanics devote larger shares of their expenditure bundles to visible goods (clothing, jewelry, and cars) than do comparable Whites. We demonstrate that these differences exist among virtually all sub-populations, that they are relatively constant over time, and that they are economically large.
To give the authors credit where credit is due they also show that the differences in conspicuous consumption are large and important. The differences in spending on clothing, jewelry, and cars, for example, can explain half of the differences in wealth between the races (conditional on permanent income) and a significant share of the differences in education and health spending.
Why do these differences exist? Aside from simple differences in preferences, signaling is one possible explanation. Suppose that high income confers status. Other people judge your income based on your conspicuous consumption and your group's income. Under plausible conditions, the authors show that if your group's income is already high conspicuous consumption has a low marginal product. Put differently a black man who wears a very expensive suit gets a bigger increase in status than a white man who wears the same expensive suit because the baseline income prediction is lower for the former.
The theory is plausible but I wonder if other groups haven't converged on more efficient methods of signaling. Some groups, for example, use education as a signal. Other groups like to show how clever they are by writing pithy summaries of new economics research".
O Fim do Mundo
No Blog do Mankiw lemos: "A reader emails me this story:
After a group of UC Davis women faculty began circulating a petition, UC regents rescinded an invitation to Larry Summers, the controversial former president of Harvard University, to speak at a board dinner Wednesday night in Sacramento.
If there is any place that should be open to a wide range of views, it is a university. To bar a scholar as prominent as Larry from talking simply because you disagree with him is despicable".
O marxismo está destruindo lentamente o sistema universitario americano. Daqui a pouco os EUA viram uma França. É o fim do mundo…
After a group of UC Davis women faculty began circulating a petition, UC regents rescinded an invitation to Larry Summers, the controversial former president of Harvard University, to speak at a board dinner Wednesday night in Sacramento.
If there is any place that should be open to a wide range of views, it is a university. To bar a scholar as prominent as Larry from talking simply because you disagree with him is despicable".
O marxismo está destruindo lentamente o sistema universitario americano. Daqui a pouco os EUA viram uma França. É o fim do mundo…
Friday, September 14, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Mainardi e Luciano Coutinho
Excelente o artigo de Diogo Mainardi sobre Luciano Coutinho. O artigo mostra como a falta de conhecimento dos professores de economia da Unicamp tem um custo brutal para o Brasil.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
O Fim da Picada
O pais que inventou a democracia moderna atinge um new low: "The whole population and every UK visitor should be added to the national DNA database, a senior judge has said". Esse juiz, sem duvida, deve ser da corrente do "Direito Achado na Rua".
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Encontro de Liberais
Adolfo Sachsida esta interessado em reunir todos os liberais do Brasil. Para entrar em contacto com ele visite seu blog.
De Gustibus Mudando
O excelente blog De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum esta de endereco novo: http://gustibusgustibus.wordpress.com/