L'ORA DI EDUCAZIONE CIVICA CON SHAKESPEARE
Dal grande bardo un messaggio fondamentale per i cittadini di domani: solo la diffidenza verso la politica fornisce basi solide al buon governo.
Enrico V, Riccardo III, Macbeth, Re Lear, Giulio Cesare, Coriolano, le letture formative sarebbero tante.
Citation (APA): cato-unbound.org. (2019). Shakespeare's Inner Economist | Cato Unbound [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com
Parte introduttiva
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Shakespeare's Inner Economist
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eternal truths about the human condition.
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LA GRANDE LETTERATURA
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LA GRANDE LETTERATURA
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For me, this has always been more than sufficient justification to frolic merrily across the centuries and apply the compelling insights of public choice theory— a 20th century phenomenon— to the literature of the 16th and 17th centuries, and even to the Bible.
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Tullock has argued that, while history provides useful examples of public choice problems, pre-Enlightenment people lacked what I will call a “public choice sensibility”
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Until the days of Adam Smith most social discussion was essentially moral. Individuals— whether they were businessmen, civil servants, politicians, or hereditary monarchs— were told what was the morally correct thing to do
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TULLOCK SULLA SCARSA SENSIBILITÀ PRE ILLUMINISTICA
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TULLOCK SULLA SCARSA SENSIBILITÀ PRE ILLUMINISTICA
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Machiavelli and Hobbes were major exceptions
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moral difference was used to describe a world of medieval merchants who we are told, “did exist in the Middle ages, [and they] lived in small enclaves in which the moral system was not enforced
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It seems possible that he’s picking it up from Karl Polanyi’s argument in The Great Transformation, which situates a similar change in morality and mentality during the Enlightenment.
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GENEALOGIA TULLOCK
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GENEALOGIA TULLOCK
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Gordon Schochet and Eric Nelson
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GURU
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possibilities for a skepticism about human political systems that, because it was biblically based, could maintain both its skepticism about divine right monarchy
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discussion of I Samuel 8, where the Israelites ask God to give them a king. Because Saul’s speech in response to this request can be read either as a list of the rights of a monarch or a list of the dire things that a monarch will do,
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PASSO CRUCIALE
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PASSO CRUCIALE
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The Shakespearean play that most strongly supports the idea of an early modern public choice sensibility is Henry V,
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The Bishops of Canterbury and Ely are discovered discussing a bill proposing that the Crown seize lands that had been donated to the church.
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SCENA DI APERTURA
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SCENA DI APERTURA
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the clergy has persuaded Henry V to take their side by offering him a large sum of cash to help him invade France. I doubt you could ask for a better classroom example of rent seeking,
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Shakespeare’s Richard III provides further strong evidence
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As a result of his many murders, and in spite of widespread suspicion of his crimes, Richard of Gloucester has maneuvered his way into being offered the crown of England by the Lord Mayor and the citizens of London.
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LE MACCHINAZIONI DI R III
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LE MACCHINAZIONI DI R III
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He arranges to be discovered at prayer,
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He and his closest advisor, Buckingham, assert throughout the scene that Richard’s modesty and piety prevent him from even dreaming of taking the throne. With great show of reluctance, however, he finally does.
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He and his audience are both aware of the grisly comedy that comes from the vast difference between the personal character of a politician and the appearance presented by the public self.
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IL TEATRINO...REALTÀ NOTA A TUTTI
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IL TEATRINO...REALTÀ NOTA A TUTTI
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Macbeth and King Lear provide further examples
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Macbeth’s murderous tyranny
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the entirety of the plot of King Lear is the rapid and complete degradation of Lear’s appearance of command and mastery in the opening scene
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Coriolanus provides us with trenchant observations of the necessity of wooing the populace in order to gain power.
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Julius Caesar shows why appealing to them is so dangerous and destructive.
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Measure for Measure is a powerful reminder of how the enforcement of laws is driven by political whims
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the paranoid and reclusive Henry IV whose memory is eclipsed by the bold young Henry V… who
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Whenever or wherever the “romantic and illusory thinking” about politics that Buchanan and Tullock were rightly concerned about took hold, it was not in the pre-Enlightenment playhouses.
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