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domingo, 22 de maio de 2016
Pensamento do dia
O problema do keynesianismo é que agora, com o aumento da esperança média de vida, no longo prazo já não estamos todos mortos.
Tudo depende claro da definição de longo prazo... Diria que coisas como a singularidade teriam mais a ver com essa expectativa... claro que se definirmos longo prazo como a extinção do grupo local ou a "heat death of the universe", a frase continua a fazer sentido ;-)
Boa farpa, Sara, e sem surpresa, para mim, face a outras que publicou neste DdD. Pois... Há quem se mostre velho, muito velho desde demasiado cedo: «(...) the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. Not, indeed, immediately, but after a certain interval; for in the field of economic and political philosophy there are not many who are influenced by new theories after they are twenty-five or thirty years of age, so that the ideas which civil servants and politicians and even agitators apply to current events are not likely to be the newest. But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. (...)» [The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936); John Maynard Keynes; Proj. Gutemberg/Australia/1, pg 234]
Tudo depende claro da definição de longo prazo... Diria que coisas como a singularidade teriam mais a ver com essa expectativa... claro que se definirmos longo prazo como a extinção do grupo local ou a "heat death of the universe", a frase continua a fazer sentido ;-)
ResponderEliminar!!!!!!
ResponderEliminarBoa farpa, Sara, e sem surpresa, para mim, face a outras que publicou neste DdD. Pois... Há quem se mostre velho, muito velho desde demasiado cedo:
ResponderEliminar«(...)
the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. Not, indeed, immediately, but after a certain interval; for in the field of economic and political philosophy there are not many who are influenced by new theories after they are twenty-five or thirty years of age, so that the ideas which civil servants and politicians and even agitators apply to current events are not likely to be the newest. But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
(...)»
[The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936); John Maynard Keynes; Proj. Gutemberg/Australia/1, pg 234]