The institutional impotence that plagues Brazil and so many other countries has to be faced, generating the necessary governance, and streamlining the decision-making process of society. The slow-motion catastrophe is gaining speed….
It is becoming difficult to know whether we are listening to a professor, a preacher or a politician. Our knowledge, beliefs and values get mixed up while governments and corporations surf on very real…
A Oxfam, organização muito confiável, apresenta um excelente estudo sobre a desigualdade, as suas manifestações e o agravamento radical recente. O documento foi lançado por ocasião da reunião do Fórum Econômico de Davos 2023…
Multiplicam-se desejos e experimentos de vida livre do inferno mercantil. Novas construções teóricas avançam. Mas a máquina de alienação gira cada vez mais rápido – e coloca o indivíduo solitário como herói. Quem colapsará…
The austerity-mongers claim we must restrict government “spending” in order to have a balanced budget. It sounds responsible, but it doesn’t work. What we need is an intelligent balance between where the money comes…
In this paper, we present an overview of the main lines of action in order to reshape the society in Brazil so that it is economically viable, socially just and environmentally sustainable….
Artigos Recebidos
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
O United Nations Research Institute for Social Development publicou um excelente estudo sobre os desafios da desigualdade no planeta. Mais do que lamentar as desgraças, sistematiza os dados básicos, e apresenta os desafios nas…
My new book focuses on the central mechanisms of exploitation that have diversified and are generating the catastrophe of inequality and the environmental drama that we are experiencing….
Neste artigo, os ingleses preocupados com a hiper-exploração com cartões de crédito. O dinheiro sob forma de papel impresso pelo governo, dentro do nosso bolso, oferecia uma certa segurança. O que pagávamos na padaria…
O livro de Pavlina Tcherneva é curto, muito bem documentado, e centrado nas questões práticas: sai muito mais barato tirar os pobres da miséria do que arcar com as consequências. Se ainda por cima…
How long will we economists, engineers, lawyers, architects, administrators and so many other professionals go along with the use of our technical expertise for stupid, if lucrative, aims? There is no necessary contradiction between…
A vicious circle generating social polarization, violence and more corporate-dominated politics: the inequality issue goes much beyond poverty and lack of access to basic goods and services. It is also about the feeling of…
The world is presently aware of the catastrophic management of the global environment issues, the explosive inequality, the absurd growth of fortunes at the very top, the erosion of democracy. The corporate world, deeply…
Moral indignation in economics is considered to be unscientific. Allow me some moral outrage as the planet is awash in financial resources, top level technologies, updated statistics on every dimension of our potentials and…
The overall decision process we call politics is outdated, and does not correspond to the challenges we face. We face global finance and high-frequency trade with national-scale policies, and global money is too slippery…