Rabbit's blog » Economia http://blog.luispedro.org Um texto pode esconder outro. Leia duas vezes antes de avançar Wed, 19 May 2010 22:15:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 22.3% http://blog.luispedro.org/posts/223 http://blog.luispedro.org/posts/223#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:47:05 +0000 luispedro http://blog.luispedro.org/posts/223 Eu tenho dúvidas que seja possível medir o PIB formal com três digitos de precisão.

Não tenho dúvidas nenhumas que a estimativa do tamanho da economia informal tenha uma margem de erro de alguns pontos percentuais.

Dizer que a economia informal são 22.3% do PIB (um número repetido por todo o lado) é um disparate, um erro científico em nome do cientificismo. São pouco mais de 20% é muito mais correcto.

]]> http://blog.luispedro.org/posts/223/feed 0 Sentence of the Day http://blog.luispedro.org/posts/sentence-of-the-day http://blog.luispedro.org/posts/sentence-of-the-day#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:51:15 +0000 luispedro http://blog.luispedro.org/posts/sentence-of-the-day After every bubble, there’s generally a sort of an anti-bubble–when analysts start looking for reasons that this is the worst crisis ever.

Megan McArdle

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A economia americana cresceu a uma taxa anualizada de 1.9% no segundo trimestre.

Qualquer comparação com Portugal é demasiado deprimente.

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Swedish filesharing researcher Daniel Johansson on Cato via will wilkinson.

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Business environment ranks and scores
  2008-12 2008-12 2003-07 2003-07 Change in Change
  Total score Rank Total score Rank total score in rank
Denmark 8.76 1 8.74 2 0.01 1
Finland 8.74 2 8.71 3 0.03 1
Singapore 8.73 3 8.84 1 -0.11 -2
Canada 8.71 4 8.64 5 0.07 1
Switzerland 8.68 5 8.67 4 0.01 -1
Australia 8.65 6 8.20 14 0.45 8
Hong Kong 8.64 7 8.64 7 0.00 0
Netherlands 8.63 8 8.59 8 0.04 0
Sweden 8.63 9 8.34 11 0.29 2
USA 8.60 10 8.64 6 -0.04 -4
Ireland 8.57 11 8.53 9 0.04 -2
UK 8.56 12 8.52 10 0.04 -2
Germany 8.48 13 8.13 15 0.35 2
New Zealand 8.29 14 8.20 13 0.08 -1
Austria 8.26 15 8.00 16 0.26 1
Belgium 8.25 16 8.22 12 0.03 -4
Norway 8.14 17 7.97 17 0.16 0
Taiwan 8.11 18 7.57 22 0.54 4
France 8.03 19 7.89 18 0.14 -1
Chile 8.02 20 7.80 19 0.22 -1

via Will Wilkinson

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There are two technologies for producing automobiles in America. One is to manufacture them in Detroit, and the other is to grow them in Iowa. Everybody knows about the first technology; let me tell you about the second. First you plant seeds, which are the raw material from which automobiles are constructed. You wait a few months until wheat appears. Then you harvest the wheat,load it onto ships, and sail the ships eastward into the Pacific Ocean. After a few months, the ships reappear with Toyotas on them.

International trade is nothing but a form of technology. The fact that there is a place called Japan [...] is quite irrelevant to American’s well-being. To analyse trade policies, we might as well assume that Japan is a giant machine [...] that converts wheat into cars.

Any policy designed to favor the first American technology over the second is a policy designed to favor American auto producers in Detroit over American auto producers in Iowa. A tax or a ban on “imported” automobiles is a tax or a ban on Iowa-grown. If you protect Detroit carmakers from competition, then you must damage Iowa farmers, because Iowa farmers are the competition.

—The Armchair Economist, Steven E. Landsburg (que credita a história a David Friedman).

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We live in an age of “policy wonks” who judge [policy] programs by their effects on productivity, or output, or work effort. Wokian analysis uses the jargon of economics while ignoring its content. Economists view the wonks’ fixation on output as a bizarre and unhealthy obsession. Wonks want Americans to die rich; economists want Americans to die happy.

S. Landsburg, The Armchair Economist

]]> http://blog.luispedro.org/posts/make-work-economics/feed 0 O Futuro http://blog.luispedro.org/posts/o-futuro http://blog.luispedro.org/posts/o-futuro#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:45:36 +0000 luispedro http://blog.luispedro.org/posts/o-futuro Na série isto já parece um blogue:

A ler também: o artigo do NY Times sobre este assunto.

Às vezes, apercebemo-nos um pouco do que será o futuro.

(Uma vez ultrapassado o nojo que esta ideia nos causa, há que reconhecer que é um avanço.)

]]> http://blog.luispedro.org/posts/o-futuro/feed 0 País Laico http://blog.luispedro.org/posts/pais-laico http://blog.luispedro.org/posts/pais-laico#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:39:03 +0000 luispedro http://blog.luispedro.org/posts/pais-laico Se Portugal é um país laico, porque é que os supermercados não podem abrir todo o santo Domingo?

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