Sociologia Econômica

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2012-01-31T06:23:00.000-08:00

Abra os olhos

2012-01-31T05:37:00.000-08:00

Guerra cambial

2012-01-31T05:03:00.000-08:00

It is not just rockets and bombs that are fired; war is raged on the economic front, with currency manipulation as the primary weapon. It is this brutal economic warfare that is the subject of James Rickards's outstanding new book, Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis.
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Antony Mueller: "O que está por trás da guerra cambial?"

Os valores do "doctrinal system"

2012-01-31T04:29:00.000-08:00

"These sectors of the doctrinal system serve to divert the unwashed masses and reinforce basic social values: passivity, submissiveness to authority, the overriding virtue of greed and personal gain, lack of concern for others, fear of real or imagined enemies, etc. The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered." -- Noam Chomsky

Educação pública - instrumento da tirania

2012-01-31T02:41:00.000-08:00

Karen De Coster explica:
How the Public Schools Keep Your Child a Prisoner of the State
by Karen De Coster
Public education, in its current state, is based on the idea that government is the "parent" best equipped to provide children with the values and wisdom required to grow into intelligent, functional adults. To echo what former first lady Hillary Clinton professed, these public school champions believe "it takes a village" to cultivate a society of competent human beings.
As Hebrew University historian Martin van Crevald points out in his book, The Rise and Decline of the State, nineteenth-century state worshippers who wanted to impose a love of big government ideals upon the youth popularized the archetype for state-directed education. Additionally, there was an overall appetite for discipline of the "unruly" masses that reinforced the campaign to take education out of the hands of individuals. After all, the self-educated masses might resist government decrees, and this kind of disarray would be undesirable in the move toward building a powerful, controlling state apparatus. Prussia's Frederick William I and France's Napoleon discerned this, as did a legion of other despotic rulers throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. In a recent article published on the American Daily Herald "Dumberer and Dumberest," Glenn Horowitz writes:
If you're not familiar with it, the Prussian system was a teaching methodology designed to stamp out good little worker bees assembly-line fashion, trained to be complacent with their station in life and compliant with every demand of the State. An elite of those better educated but still proven unquestioningly loyal to the State were promoted to lead the proletariat, rewarded with elevated status and material success commensurate with their skills and the zeal they demonstrate in supporting the system. It specifically avoided developing creativity and independent thought, reasoning these were skills the worker classes didn't need in their roles as mass produced labor.
Modern education is built upon a foundation set forth by tyrants...
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Bem-vindo a Brasil - mas atenção: se não tem buracos, tem lombadas!

2012-01-30T17:14:00.000-08:00

O desafio do brasileiro no exterior

2012-01-30T16:20:00.000-08:00

The man of the year and the villain

2012-01-30T16:14:00.000-08:00

Felicidade

2012-01-30T15:35:00.000-08:00

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

Teocracia do Estado

2012-01-30T15:31:00.000-08:00

American Exceptionalists Love Their Primitive Secular State Theocracy
by Scott Lazarowitz
At a recent debate when Ron Paul mentioned the "Golden Rule," that we should treat foreigners as we should be treated, he was booed by a number of people in the audience. This happened at a previous debate. At that previous debate, Paul further questioned how we would like it if a foreign government invaded and occupied the U.S. and set up its military bases here.
How can so many people (and so many popular radio talk hosts and their listeners) condemn the suggestion that everyone must be equal under the rule of law?
The myth of American exceptionalism is that the U.S. is an example of moral progress, peace and prosperity for the rest of the world to follow. But that has not been the case during most of America’s existence.
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A orígem da crise financeira

2012-01-30T14:38:00.000-08:00

Alchemy Leveraged: The Federal Reserve and Modern Finance
By Roger W. Garrison
This article appeared in the Winter 2012 issue of The Independent Review
Abstract
Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson’s Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Regulation Crashed the Financial System (2010) presents a superior analysis of the origins of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Although the authors cite the Federal Reserve as the main institutional cause of the crisis and recommend abolishing other financial regulatory agencies, they stop short of calling for an end to the Fed and instead propose that it pursue Volcker-style price stability—an approach that would leave the economy vulnerable to booms and busts fueled by monetary policy.
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Você e o facebook

2012-01-30T06:50:00.000-08:00

Mais uma nova revolução tecnológica no caminho

2012-01-30T05:46:00.000-08:00

The Coming Tech-led Boom
The Wall Street Journal Opinion
By MARK P. MILLS AND JULIO M. OTTINO
Three breakthroughs are poised to transform this century as much as telephony and electricity did the last.
In January 2012, we sit again on the cusp of three grand technological transformations with the potential to rival that of the past century. All find their epicenters in America: big data, smart manufacturing and the wireless revolution.
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Sociologia do dinheiro

2012-01-30T05:06:00.001-08:00

Prof. Dr. Antony Peter Mueller
Sociologia do dinheiro
UFS NPPCS
Terça 08h00min-12h00min
2012/1
EMENTA

Objetivo Geral:
O objetivo geral do seminário “Sociologia do dinheiro” é investigar o sistema monetário e financeiro em sua relação com a sociedade moderna, analisando como dinheiro representa a “essência da modernidade” (Simmel).
Objetivo Específico:
O objetivo específico é analisar como a liquidez monetária resulta de um processo social constituído de cooperação social, confiança pessoal e da validez das regras implícitas e explícitas, enquanto o colapso da liquidez, a contração monetária, é o resultado da dissolução destes fatores. Explorar as contribuições da sociologia econômica para analisar as causas de prosperidade, crises e depressões.
Estrutura:
A primeira parte será orientada de ganhar um entendimento de dinheiro e finanças com a ajuda dos pensadores clássicos e estudar especialmente a obra “Filosofia do dinheiro” de Georg Simmel.
A segunda parte do seminário será dedicada ao estudo analítico-empírico do moderno sistema monetário-financeiro e as suas crises: O impacto da dívida sobre o comportamento do consumidor e investidor.
A terceira parte do seminário dedica-se ao estúdio de novas abordagens com o objetivo de identificar teorias e modelos para captar a relação de dinheiro com problemas e fenômenos como pobreza, poder, e corrupção.
Bibliografia básica:
Georg Simmel: Philosophie des Geldes. Versão em inglês online: http://kenrogers.org/archive/archive/files/2a84aedfb2e819d72f4f1a8a061a83fb.pdf
Friedland, Roger e A. F. Robertson (eds.): Beyond the Marketplace. Rethinking Economy and Society. Online: http://books.google.com.br/books?hl=pt-BR&lr=&id=dY-NYTr6gZcC&oi=fnd&pg=PA89&dq=Economic+sociology+of+money&ots=RiipcVJOxu&sig=Ts-jih85ZayL7sptYswgHCK8jkU#v=onepage&q&f=false
Geoffrey Ingham, The Social Institution of Money, in: The Sage Handbook of Sociology. Online: http://books.google.com.br/books?hl=pt-BR&lr=&id=wGPc1te4WwYC&oi=fnd&pg=PA154&dq=Philosophy+and+sociology+of+money+Simmel&ots=2FVDycwpLG&sig=1_SHihpUpVnjZRoVHOSku85ry6E#v=onepage&q&f=false
Mais informações e atualizações: http://socec.blogspot.com/

Oferta NPPCS 2012/1

2012-01-30T03:18:00.000-08:00

TÓPICOS AVANÇADOS EM TEORIAS SOCIOLÓGICAS – DO - (07:00h – 11:00h)
PROF. DR. ROGERIO PROENÇA LEITE
ENGAJAMENTO, MILITÂNCIA E PARTICIPAÇÃO POLÍTICA – ME/DO - (13:00h – 17:00h)
PROF. DR. WILSON JOSÉ FERREIRA DE OLIVEIRA
SOCIOLOGIA DO DINHEIRO - ME/DO - (07:00h – 11:00h)
PROF. DR. ANTONY PETER MUELLER
TEORIAS SOCIOLÓGICAS - ME - (07:00h – 11:00h)
PROF. DR. MARCELO ALÁRIO ENNES
EPISTEMOLOGIA E SOCIOLOGIA - DO - (13:00h – 17:00h)
PROF. DR. PAULO SÉRGIO DA COSTA NEVES
SEMINÁRIO DE DISSERTAÇÃO – ME - (07:00h – 11:00h)
PROF. DR. FERNANDA RIOS PETRARCA
SEMINÁRIO DE TESE – DO - (07:00h – 11:00h)
PROF. DR. ERNESTO SEIDL
LEITURAS DE STUART HALL: OS ESTUDOS CULTURAIS - ME/DO - (13:00h – 17:00h)
PROF. DR. FRANK NILTON MARCON
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Dinheiro e independência

2012-01-29T17:29:00.001-08:00

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford

Seminário NPPCS "Sociologia do dinheiro"

2012-01-29T14:41:00.000-08:00

Transfomação demográfica

2012-01-29T13:14:00.000-08:00

I. Baixa expectativa da vida
II. Forte expansaõ populacional
III. Estagnação populacional - alta expectativa da vida, baixa taxa de reprodução
IV. Contração populacional - envelhicimento da sociedade
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Política pública de ciência e tecnologia no Brasil

2012-01-29T06:27:00.000-08:00

Novo ministro da Ciência promete lutar por mais investimentos

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BRASÍLIA - Ainda sem saber o tamanho do corte no orçamento de R$ 8 bilhões, previsto para 2012, o físico Marco Antônio Raupp, de 73 anos, assumiu o Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia disposto a aumentar o capital privado na indústria de inovação. Raupp admitiu que o programa Cyclone, voltado ao lançamento comercial de satélites do Brasil com um foguete ucraniano, pode não se viabilizar como negócio. Ele revelou, em entrevista ao GLOBO, que pediu um novo plano comercial para o empreendimento, orçado em US$ 500 milhões. O novo ministro prometeu se empenhar por um investimento de 2% do PIB, em pesquisa e desenvolvimento, até 2014...
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Adolescente mais cedo - adulto mais tarde

2012-01-28T14:15:00.000-08:00

What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind?
Children today reach puberty earlier and adulthood later. The result: A lot of teenage weirdness. Alison Gopnik on how we might readjust adolescence.
By ALISON GOPNIK
"What was he thinking?" It's the familiar cry of bewildered parents trying to understand why their teenagers act the way they do.
How does the boy who can thoughtfully explain the reasons never to drink and drive end up in a drunken crash? Why does the girl who knows all about birth control find herself pregnant by a boy she doesn't even like? What happened to the gifted, imaginative child who excelled through high school but then dropped out of college, drifted from job to job and now lives in his parents' basement?
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Os intelectuais e a sociedade

2012-01-28T14:01:00.000-08:00

Intelectuais têm cometido erros desastrosos para a sociedade
No livro "Os Intelectuais e a Sociedade" (2012), o economista americano Thomas Sowell reflete sobre a maneira como os formadores de opinião se relacionam com o mundo. Para isso, o autor analisa as interferências e respectivas consequências das atividades intelectuais na história recente.
De acordo com o economista, por meio do poder que possuem de alterar o clima da opinião pública com suas falas, os intelectuais, como classe, são capazes de influenciar e sujeitar até os governantes e suas decisões. Assim, conseguem interferir nos mais diversos campos como o direito, a saúde, a economia e até em questões nevrálgicas como a guerra.
"Os Intelectuais e a Sociedade"
Meu comentário: O problemo não são os "intelectuais", mas sim a seleção adversa que acontece na mídias. O principais formadores da opinão pública residem nas direitorias das estações de TV e nos journais com grande circulação. São eles que tem uma tendência de promover intelectuais ruins porque a sua seleção está baseada em sensacionalismo.

Risco

2012-01-28T13:50:00.000-08:00

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
Jean Paul Getty

Ele fala do Brasil?

2012-01-27T18:05:00.000-08:00

Inovação é um ato solitário

2012-01-27T18:03:00.000-08:00

O futuro da educação

2012-01-27T16:09:00.000-08:00

The future of teaching
Let the games begin
Education is in dire need of reform, but not the sort pedagogues have in mind
FULL marks to Apple for devising ways to improve how science, mathematics and other topics are taught in primary and secondary schools across America. The company’s “Reinventing Textbooks” event last week showed how effectively Apple’s popular iPad tablet computer can replace the stack of tedious, and invariably outdated, textbooks that school children have to lug around these days (see “A textbook manoeuvre”, January 19th 2012).
Apple is providing a free Macintosh application, dubbed iBooks Author, which allows publishers, teachers and writers to produce interactive textbooks with video, audio and even rotating 3D graphics that spring to life with the touch of a finger. By and large, interactive multimedia offer more engaging explanations that students more readily grasp and remember. To play such books on an iPad, a free application called iBooks 2 must first be downloaded from the company’s App Store. Interactive textbooks can then be purchased from iTunes, Apple's online store, for $15 apiece or less. That is a seventh of the price of the average textbook used in schools today.
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