Economia
Teorema de Coase
Há muito tempo li um artigo do Eric Rasmusen (link fixo aí ao lado) sobre o Teorema de Coase aplicado ao caso dos caras que são a favor e contra a queima da bandeira do país.
Ele usava o ponto polêmico para ilustrar o famoso teorema e, claro, há implicações polêmicas nestas coisas, acreditem-me.
Imagine, no caso abaixo, a barganha. Anti-casamentos de gays querem comprar o direito ao casamento dos mesmos e, claro, proibi-los em seguida. Por outro lado, os gays podem querer caçar os direitos à liberdade de expressão dos anti-gays. Hummm...neste caso, é melhor não deixar os caras comprarem os direitos à liberdade de expressão. Pelo menos é o que penso.
OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today: "Shut Up, They Explained
Here's a good rule to follow: When someone on the liberal-left tells you he's for freedom, don't believe him. Somehow when 'social liberals' have their way, it quickly turns out that anything that isn't mandatory is forbidden. A case in point: gay rights. Those of us with libertarian impulses agree that government shouldn't prohibit gay sex between consenting adults. We may even be sympathetic to the call for marriagelike benefits for same-sex couples. But we also believe in free speech and thus are quite troubled by stories like this one, from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.:
A high school teacher in British Columbia, punished for writing publicly against homosexuality, is not protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the province's Supreme Court has ruled. . . .
In 2002, the British Columbia College of Teachers suspended [Chris] Kempling for one month for 'professional misconduct or conduct unbecoming a BCCT member.'
It had been investigating a complaint received after Kempling wrote a series of letters to his local newspaper between 1997 and 2000 saying homosexuality was wrong.
Reuters quotes Justice Ronald Holmes, who wrote the decision: 'Discriminatory speech is incompatible with the search for truth.' Even if we accept for the sake of argument the proposition that Kempling's speech was 'discriminatory' and false, it is still arrant nonsense to call it 'incompatible with the search for truth.' The search for truth inevitably entails exposure to many false ideas, some of them obnoxious. The 'liberal' agenda Holms advocates is actually a profoundly illiberal one: the imposition by bureaucrats and judges of a preapproved 'truth.'"
- Ronald Coase
Ronald Coase, the Unexpected Economist Pedro Schwartz* "... Even Coase was sometimes heard to say that it had taken him years fully to understand his theorem. This must be so, because towards the end of his life, when he wrote his book on how China...
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Onde estão os vacinados contra xenofobia anti-US? Interessante artigo de Anne Applebaum sobre o outro lado da força (escolha o adjetivo): o pró-americanismo, irmão do anti-americanismo. Link: In Search of Pro-Americanism...
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É proibido beijar: Coase x Pigou Beijar é bom. Bem, pelo menos é o que pensam heterossexuais, homossexuais, bissexuais, trissexuais, tetrassexuais, etc. Mas não é o que pensam alguns russos, principalmente se você está no metrô. A solução...
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Minutos de Sabedoria...anos de burrice Assim dizia um professor de Ciência Política que tive. Mas vale a pena esta frase: gastei muiiiiiiiiiiiiitos minutos estudando antes de achá-la: In economics, as in the other social sciences and in science...
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Teorema de Coase - Primórdios Veja que legal esta citação, retirada do excelente livro de HPE do Ekelund & Hébert... "If command of a certain amount of A's goods were transferred to B and if command of a certain amount of B's goods were...
Economia
Teorema de Coase
Há muito tempo li um artigo do Eric Rasmusen (link fixo aí ao lado) sobre o Teorema de Coase aplicado ao caso dos caras que são a favor e contra a queima da bandeira do país.
Ele usava o ponto polêmico para ilustrar o famoso teorema e, claro, há implicações polêmicas nestas coisas, acreditem-me.
Imagine, no caso abaixo, a barganha. Anti-casamentos de gays querem comprar o direito ao casamento dos mesmos e, claro, proibi-los em seguida. Por outro lado, os gays podem querer caçar os direitos à liberdade de expressão dos anti-gays. Hummm...neste caso, é melhor não deixar os caras comprarem os direitos à liberdade de expressão. Pelo menos é o que penso.
OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today: "Shut Up, They Explained
Here's a good rule to follow: When someone on the liberal-left tells you he's for freedom, don't believe him. Somehow when 'social liberals' have their way, it quickly turns out that anything that isn't mandatory is forbidden. A case in point: gay rights. Those of us with libertarian impulses agree that government shouldn't prohibit gay sex between consenting adults. We may even be sympathetic to the call for marriagelike benefits for same-sex couples. But we also believe in free speech and thus are quite troubled by stories like this one, from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.:
A high school teacher in British Columbia, punished for writing publicly against homosexuality, is not protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the province's Supreme Court has ruled. . . .
In 2002, the British Columbia College of Teachers suspended [Chris] Kempling for one month for 'professional misconduct or conduct unbecoming a BCCT member.'
It had been investigating a complaint received after Kempling wrote a series of letters to his local newspaper between 1997 and 2000 saying homosexuality was wrong.
Reuters quotes Justice Ronald Holmes, who wrote the decision: 'Discriminatory speech is incompatible with the search for truth.' Even if we accept for the sake of argument the proposition that Kempling's speech was 'discriminatory' and false, it is still arrant nonsense to call it 'incompatible with the search for truth.' The search for truth inevitably entails exposure to many false ideas, some of them obnoxious. The 'liberal' agenda Holms advocates is actually a profoundly illiberal one: the imposition by bureaucrats and judges of a preapproved 'truth.'"
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- Ronald Coase
Ronald Coase, the Unexpected Economist Pedro Schwartz* "... Even Coase was sometimes heard to say that it had taken him years fully to understand his theorem. This must be so, because towards the end of his life, when he wrote his book on how China...
-
Onde estão os vacinados contra xenofobia anti-US? Interessante artigo de Anne Applebaum sobre o outro lado da força (escolha o adjetivo): o pró-americanismo, irmão do anti-americanismo. Link: In Search of Pro-Americanism...
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É proibido beijar: Coase x Pigou Beijar é bom. Bem, pelo menos é o que pensam heterossexuais, homossexuais, bissexuais, trissexuais, tetrassexuais, etc. Mas não é o que pensam alguns russos, principalmente se você está no metrô. A solução...
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Minutos de Sabedoria...anos de burrice Assim dizia um professor de Ciência Política que tive. Mas vale a pena esta frase: gastei muiiiiiiiiiiiiitos minutos estudando antes de achá-la: In economics, as in the other social sciences and in science...
-
Teorema de Coase - Primórdios Veja que legal esta citação, retirada do excelente livro de HPE do Ekelund & Hébert... "If command of a certain amount of A's goods were transferred to B and if command of a certain amount of B's goods were...