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lunedì 2 dicembre 2013
domenica 1 dicembre 2013
Politiche anticicliche liberiste
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sabato 30 novembre 2013
Principio di precauzione
"David Friedman on the Precautionary Principle, by David Henderson" http://feedly.com/k/Ixz3yz
venerdì 29 novembre 2013
TOLLERA IL BRUTTO E AVRAI PIU' BELLEZZA
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La società consumistica elargisce un insegnamento estetico di primordine: è dalla tolleranza del brutto che scaturisce il bello.
Un confronto tra Italia e Germania.
“… if you go to Germany or you go to Switzerland and you go through the countryside, there are all these houses that are exactly the same, [only] a little variation. Sometimes they even have coordinated geranium flowers. It looks beautiful—a great place for a vacation… The landscape is tightly regulated in these countries, curbing individuality and experimentation in the name of good design…
Things are different in Italy, which also happens to be famous for its wildly creative design industries. If you go to the Italian countryside where people really live and work, you cannot find two houses that look the same. It’s continuous experimentation. And 99 percent of them are ugly, but ugly—ugly, ugly, ugly… But, he suggests, the culture that allows that experimentation, tolerating failures, is the same culture that produces aesthetic breakthroughs…”
It is tolerance for the ugliness that is the basis for the greatness of Italian design…”
The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (P.S.) by Virginia Postrel
BELLEZZA E CULTURA ESTETICA
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Estetica e scienza possono convivere nelle nostre scuole?
Contro (Joanne Jacobs):
“I complain that schools teach children PowerPoint rather than critical writing and reward attractive presentations that get basic facts wrong. In science, the lab report is another chance to shine graphically—even if that lovely diagram refutes Galileo… “Dumb, But Pretty”… Students are spending lots of time on aesthetics instead of traditional academic pursuits…”
Pro (Virginia Postrel):
“If a science teacher accepts a diagram that contradicts Galileo, the teacher’s ignorance, not the graphic design, is to blame. Galileo himself was not just a great scientist, mathematician, and writer but an accomplished draftsman who recorded his lunar observations in watercolors. Before romanticism declared art the province of a talented, bohemian few, drawing and painting were both common scientific tools and signs of personal refinement. Galileo used pictures as well as words to persuade. His work was smart and pretty…”
The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (P.S.)
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BELLEZZA E CPI BIAS
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I tempi sono grami, per la prima volta dal dopoguerra la generazione dei figli vivrà peggio rispetto a quella dei padri. Lo si sente dire spesso, ma ne siamo poi così sicuri? Attenzione perché PIL e redditi stagnanti sono un indicatore ingannevole. Per capirlo, niente di meglio che ragionare pensando al “bello” e al ruolo crescente dell’ estetica nella società contemporanea.
Much of the value created through aesthetics doesn’t make it into the economic data that shape perceptions and policy. The problem isn’t with the statisticians, who are neither careless nor incompetent. Intangible goods like aesthetics are inherently difficult to measure and count, especially if competition means their value isn’t reflected in higher prices…
… Consider women’s shoes. Embroidered and beaded shoes used to sell for luxury prices, no less than $100 a pair and usually more. They required skilled artisans to make, so moderately priced shoes couldn’t cover the manufacturing expense. But in the late 1990s, automation drove down the cost of these adornments and improved their durability. Because sophisticated skills were no longer needed, the work could be done in cheap labor markets like China…
Did fancy shoemakers suddenly garner enormous profits? Not at all. The shoe business is far too competitive. Instead, embroidery and beads began to appear on shoes selling for $70 instead of $250. “Because the savings in labor costs are mostly passed on to the consumer…
… Adjusted for inflation, the price of a movie ticket in 2001 was lower than in 1990 and much lower than its peak in 1971, yet sound systems and special effects are substantially improved. Holding other quality factors constant, moviegoers get more for their money today… ecc. ecc. ecc.
More important than the direct policy effects is the data’s psychological effect. Incomes LOOK STAGNANT even while LIVING STANDARDS are rising. Since we so quickly become accustomed to higher aesthetic standards, we forget what things used to be like…
We look at the official data and conclude we’re poorer than we really are…
Missing some of the economy’s greatest advances, we believe pessimists who say progress has effectively ended. Or we focus all our optimism on flashy technology and miss the incremental improvements in everyday life…”
The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (P.S.) by Virginia Postrel
ANATEMA VERSO IL BRUTTO
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L' anatema verso il brutto sarà anche un dovere ma è un dovere molto molto pericoloso. Ecco il triste spettacolo di cio' che spesso accade nella testa del censore:
"... If we build suburbs with yards and cul de sacs, away from the smoke and crowds of the city, as the twentieth-century Garden City movement advocated, labor and capital will live in peace... If we build new houses with porches, goes today’s New Urbanist reasoning, we’ll be neighborly like in the good old days. (Never mind that air-conditioning makes hanging out on the porch less necessary or desirable.) If we outlaw big garages, people will abandon their automobiles. If we build unusual houses, people will be tolerant. If we make a city exactly the way I want to live, EVERYONE WILL BE LIKE ME..."
The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (P.S.) by Virginia Postrel
LA BELLEZZA NEL MIRINO DEI NIPOTINI DI MLK
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La bellezza nel mirino dei nipotini degeneri di Martin Luther King. Per i datori di lavoro è un incubo. Il caso degli Hotel:
“… If a charming or intelligent person can have an edge in the job market, why not a handsome or stylish one? Neither charm nor intelligence is distributed any more equally than good looks. But in the lawyer’s view, personal appearance is simply not a legitimate source of value outside a few conventionally artistic fields like theater or cinema… The essence of the job in a hotel, they insist, must have nothing to do with look and feel, which are extraneous considerations. A hotel shouldn’t use its staff to create an aesthetically pleasing environment or send signals about what sort of place it is…”
The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (P.S.) by Virginia Postrel
mercoledì 27 novembre 2013
Come nasce uno Stato
"Where do warlords come from? (My favorite political economy paper of the year)" http://feedly.com/k/1bnWOpU
Medicalizzazione della vita
"Ritalin, bambini e sindrome adhd: il suo inventore sul letto di morte dice che e’ malattia inventata « Giù le Mani dai Bambini" http://feedly.com/k/1a5P0CK
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