Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Defoe vs. Keynes: Desemprego Involuntário e Gastos Públicos

Se você é um daqueles inocentes que acham que gasto público diminui desemprego e que a pobreza em geral pode ser reduzida por um Estado gastador e perdulário [benevolente?], você precisa ler Daniel Defoe, aquele mesmo que escreveu Robinson Crusoe. Vale a pena ler seu ensaio Giving Alms no Charity and Employing the Poor A Grievance to the Nation: " `tis plain, the poverty of our people which is so burthensome, and increases upon us so much, does not arise from want of proper employments, and for want of work, or employers, and consequently,
Work-houses, corporations, parish-stocks, and the like, to set them to work, as they are pernicious to trade, injurious and impoverishing to those already employ`d, so they are needless, and will come short of the end propos`d
".

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