Thursday, October 11, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Gordon, O Malandro
Ranking das Melhores Instituições de Pesquisa no Brasil
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Monday, October 8, 2007
Bamboccioni
Friday, October 5, 2007
A Economia da Picaretagem
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Mundial de Rugby: Pumas na Cabeça!
Sábado começam os jogos das quartas de final do mundial de Rugby union. Dois jogos antecipam as semifinais: Australia x Inglaterra e Nova Zelândia x França. Espera-se que a mediocridade australiana massacre os atuais campeões do mundo [muito booze e contusões], mas a volta de Jason Robinson e Andy Farrell deve reforçar o time Inglês que já surpreendeu a Australia em outras copas do mundo [1995 e na final de 2003]. Nova Zelândia x França é um confronto histórico, tendo protagonizado a primeira final de um mundial [com a vitória kiwi em casa em 1987] e a semifinal de 1999 onde os Neaderthals da França bateram o timaço encabeçado por Jonah Lomu. Nos outros jogos teremos a vitória acachapante da Africa do Sul sobre Fiji [que eliminou e humilhou Wales] e, finalmente, o grande time da competição, a Argentina, vai detonar os tradicionais losers da Escócia. O time de Hernandez e Pichot bateu a anfitriã França no primeiro jogo da competição e no domingo mandou os marcianos da Guinness de volta para Dublin. Depois dos All Blacks esse é o time que torço para vencer esse mundial.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Go Cubs
Os Blogs mais Influentes do Brasil
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
A Verdade Inconveniente
As Amebas Comedoras de Cérebros
Pais Positivistas, Filhos Marxistas, Netos Terroristas
Monday, October 1, 2007
Salto Alto
Friday, September 28, 2007
História Econômica: Professor Iraci del Nero da Costa
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.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Fechem os Departamentos de Literatura!
Friday, September 21, 2007
O Ibis do Baseball
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Show de Bola
Columbia University
Mourinho sai do Chelsea
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
O Ranking da Fifa
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Benefícios da Estabilidade Econômica
Monday, September 17, 2007
Nike, Veblen e Pobreza Cultural
"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
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…