venerdì 29 novembre 2013

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

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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

Reddito minimo x tutti

"A universal income is not such a silly idea" http://feedly.com/k/1a5OCEo

Means testing

"Means-Testing and Behavioral Econ, by Bryan Caplan" http://feedly.com/k/1aVj7S1

martedì 26 novembre 2013

Quanto rende investire sulla "cultura scientifica"?

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Il grande dono della Chiesa Cristiana

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ESTETICA CONSUMISTA

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I critici dell’ estetica consumista…
“… when they aren’t denouncing surfaces as lies and illusion, cultural critics typically have one explanation for why we devote time, attention, and, most of all, money to aesthetics: It’s all about status…
The argument depends on the conviction that we do not want those expensive shoes or large homes because of any intrinsic qualities… we do not value the luxuries themselves—the soft leather of the shoes, the smooth granite countertop, the sculptural lines of the car, the drape and fit of the jacket—but just want to stand out, or at least not look bad, compared to other people.
But…
… What if every product came in a plain black-and-white box—but one company invested in graphics and color? What if everyone wore drab Mao suits—but one person dressed with color, tailoring, and flair? People would, of course, be drawn to the aesthetic deviant, even though that nonconformity might well offend the reigning status hierarchy. This thought experiment suggests something at work besides status and one-upmanship… “
The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (P.S.) by Virginia Postrel

I due capitalismi

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La Grande Asimmetria

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Empatia verso gli animale ed empatia verso gli uomini

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domenica 24 novembre 2013

Le trappole del PIL

"GDP: A Bad Measure of Well-Being, by David Henderson" http://feedly.com/k/Int5An

sabato 23 novembre 2013

Ancora sull’ inafferrabile concetto di "intenzionalità"

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Ieri ho visto finalmente "Il Petroliere" di PTA

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Linguaggio e pensiero.

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La politica domina

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CROCIATE CONTRO LA SUPERFICIE

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Crociate contro la superficie. Scuola di Francoforte, puritani e femministe cazziano capitalisti, cattolici e veline usando più o meno le stesse parole.
“… To such critics, form is dangerously seductive, because it allows the sensory to override the rational… An appealing package can make you believe that Nazis are good, or that colas are distinguishable... The very power of aesthetics makes its value suspect… “In advertising, packaging, product design, and corporate identity, the power of provocative surfaces speaks to the eye’s mind, overshadowing matters of quality or substance oiling the machinery of gratification and instant desire”… “hedonism, is the world of fashion, photography, advertising, television, travel. It is a world of make-believe”… Frankfurt School Marxists Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer… in commercial products… see ornament and variety not as goods that we value for their own sakes but as tools for creating false desire… Women’s fashion and fashion photography exemplify the same falsehood as advertising: “this task of selling illusions, the persuasions of the witches’ craft”… Preachers warned against women’s makeup, which “takes the pencill out of God’s hand,” defying nature and divine will. “What a contempt of God is this, to preferre the worke of thine owne finger to the worke of God?” exclaimed one writer condemning cosmetics… Naomi Wolf advocates “civil rights for women that will entitle a woman to say that she’d rather look like herself than some ‘beautiful’ young stranger.” Wolf praises the “female identity” affirmed by women who refuse to alter their appearance with makeup, hair dye, or cosmetic surgery: “a woman’s determination to show her loyalty—in the face of a beauty myth as powerful as myths about white supremacy—to her age, her shape, her self, her life.” Except those born with exceptional natural beauty, authenticity and aesthetics are, in this vision, inevitably at odds. Remaining true to oneself means eschewing artifice…
... This reasoning combines the oversimplified Maslovian idea, “aesthetics is a luxury,” with a puritanical conviction that luxury is waste...
… The claim is unfalsifiable, since the more we try to proclaim the real value we attach to look and feel, the more we demonstrate just how duped we are… Viscerally, if not intellectually, we’re convinced that style does matter, that look and feel add something important to our lives. We ignore the preachers and behave as if aesthetics does have real value. We cherish streamlined artifacts, unconcerned that they do not really move through space. We find spiritual uplift in pageantry and music… If you don’t know how to dress, then what else don’t you know? Do you know how to advise students or grade papers? The clothes are part of the judgment of the mind…
Aesthetics is not a luxury, but a universal human desire. Those anticapitalists who criticize markets for luring consumers into wanting more than their basic needs, and those capitalists who scoff at aesthetics for detracting from serious work, are missing a fundamental fact of human nature… Good Design is not about the perfect thing anymore, but about helping a lot of different people build their own personal identities…
The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness by Virginia Postrel
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MODA E PERSUASORI OCCULTI

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Con l’ invenzione della “moda” il persuasore occulto vende ogni anno tonnellate di merce al consumista beota:
“… but we find fashion patterns in goods for which there is no commercial market... Historian Anne Hollander notes that fashion in clothing has existed for eight hundred years, centuries longer than the apparel business. The shifty character of what looks right is not new, and was never a thing deliberately created to impose male will on females, or capitalist will on the population, or designers’ will on public taste…
… Nobody runs ads to convince parents to choose Emily or Joshua for their newborns. No magazine editors authoritatively dictate that “Ryan is the new Michael.” But names still shift according to fashion. Name choices, like clothing choices, are influenced by the desire to be different but not too different…
… Contrary to common assumptions about how fashion works, Lieberson finds that names don’t trickle down in a simple way from high-income, well-educated parents to lower-income, less-educated parents. Newly popular names tend to catch on with everyone at about the same time. External influences, such as the names of celebrities or fictional characters, do play a role in what’s popular. But cause and effect are complicated. Fictional characters don’t just publicize possible names; their creators, like new parents, select those names from the current milieu…"
The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (P.S.) by Virginia Postrel

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EAAN (Evolutionary argument against naturalism)

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CONSUMISMO, STATUS E ESTETICA

I critici dell’ estetica consumista… “… when... - Riccardo Mariani:

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I critici dell’ estetica consumista…
“… when they aren’t denouncing surfaces as lies and illusion, cultural critics typically have one explanation for why we devote time, attention, and, most of all, money to aesthetics: It’s all about status…
The argument depends on the conviction that we do not want those expensive shoes or large homes because of any intrinsic qualities… we do not value the luxuries themselves—the soft leather of the shoes, the smooth granite countertop, the sculptural lines of the car, the drape and fit of the jacket—but just want to stand out, or at least not look bad, compared to other people.
But…
… What if every product came in a plain black-and-white box—but one company invested in graphics and color? What if everyone wore drab Mao suits—but one person dressed with color, tailoring, and flair? People would, of course, be drawn to the aesthetic deviant, even though that nonconformity might well offend the reigning status hierarchy. This thought experiment suggests something at work besides status and one-upmanship… “
The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (P.S.) by Virginia Postrel
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mercoledì 20 novembre 2013

Ne uccidono quanti ne salvano

Secondo Robin [Hanson], i soldi che spendiamo per l' assistenza sanitaria sono sprecati: giacché i medici uccidono tante persone quante ne salvano, vivremmo altrettanto a lungo anche senza di loro. Sa un po' di follia, ma i dati non mostrano alcuna correlazione, a livello internazionale o nazionale, tra spesa sanitaria e speranza di vita.

Tyler Cowen  Discover your inner economist

Competizione tra donne

"A Cold War Fought by Women - NYTimes.com" http://feedly.com/k/1dZOXfV

Le condizioni lavorative durante la rivoluzione industriale

"Koyama on Working Conditions During the Industrial Revolution, by Bryan Caplan" http://feedly.com/k/1dZLDRZ

Dilemmi per la sinistra.

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A proposito di “prezzi su misura”.

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In treno con savinio

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Una visione cinica dell’ altruismo

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Scannerizzando cervelli di uomini e animali

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La strana alleanza tra animalisti e anti-abortisti

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Consideri l’ animale alla stregua di una persona? C' è un problema per te.

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Capitalismo e socialismo, le due facce dell' invidia

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*Affordable Excellence*

*Affordable Excellence*:

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Il sistema sanitario di Singapore è considerato da molti come il migliore del mondo (con il 3% del PIL garantisce a tutti l' eccellenza): la spesa sanitaria è per lo più privata e la fornitura dei servizi è per lo più pubblica.

La spesa privatizzata tiene sotto controllo la domanda e le limitazioni imposte dall' alto nella scelta della cura risparmiano frustrazioni all' utente sanitario medio sempre in preda alla sindrome spendacciona dello "show to care".

In realtà anche i servizi sanitari sono forniti in concorrenza dai privati ma poiché il governo sa che l'eccesso di scelta in questo settore disorienta il consumatore e accresce i prezzi (vedi Robin Hanson) si occupa di rendere omogenea l'offerta e trasparenti i prezzi.

Libertari e bambini

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Lavoro e sindacato

III:

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http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/e321/lab2.htm

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/11/return_to_high.html

martedì 19 novembre 2013

Le diseguaglianze del mondo diminuiscono

"World Inequality Is Down" http://feedly.com/k/I3lh7F

Puntiamo sul carattere, non sull' intelligenza

http://www.nber.org/papers/w19656.pdf

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Il copyright di Boldrin/Levine

Is Copyright Necessary?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty:

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Clement's article revolves around a controversial proposition articulated by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine. They argue that copyright is unnecessary to reward innovation. According to their theory, if people are allowed to copy freely, then this will raise the value of the first few copies (which presumably are made by the creator) to the same point that would be reached if the initial creator were given the right to restrict copying.

lunedì 18 novembre 2013

Suicidi e pistole

"Firearms and Suicides in US States" http://feedly.com/k/1gJkhDK

Intercity

https://m.facebook.com/riccardo.mariani.585/posts/10202792218753708

Neoliberismo e politica monetaria

https://www.facebook.com/riccardo.mariani.585/posts/10202792523721332

Effetto knobe

https://www.facebook.com/riccardo.mariani.585/posts/10202792799208219

Occhio alle statistiche

https://www.facebook.com/riccardo.mariani.585/posts/10202792909650980

Usa e spesa sanitaria

https://www.facebook.com/riccardo.mariani.585/posts/10202792929451475

Effetto regole

https://www.facebook.com/riccardo.mariani.585/posts/10202792966732407

Le parti in lizza

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La regola dei clan

What I am Reading | askblog: "The Rule of the Clan"

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Perché l' ideologia libertaria fa acqua

Stato e libertà: Mark Weiner

Arnold Kling, State, Clan, and Liberty | Library of Economics and Liberty:

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What Happens When We Pray?

What Happens When We Pray?:

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How to Stop Mass Shootings

How to Stop Mass Shootings - WSJ.com:

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The Safety of Bioengineered Crops

CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST: The Safety of Bioengineered Crops: When I first had to write about genetically modified crops, there was no evidence upon which to draw. It was 1986, and I was working as an e...

Quanto costa una vita?

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venerdì 15 novembre 2013

Venezuela: saccheggio di stato

"Venezuela, il saccheggio verso la Felicità" http://feedly.com/k/1dzBGKQ

Perché Peter sceglie Trilly anziché Wendy?

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L' insulto omofobo non significa che sei omofobo.

Is Alec Baldwin a Homophobe? | Psychology Today:

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La nostra natura e la nostra semantica.

La guerra infinita: dipendenti/autonomi

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Figli che picchiano la mamma

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La purga

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In the movie, the United States adopts an annual holiday ("the Purge") featuring a twelve hour period of utter lawlessness.  People can murder each other free of all legal interference and consequence.

Poco verosimile, peccato.

giovedì 14 novembre 2013

Quanto guadagna la finanza?

"Would Buy-and-Hold Cut Finance Down to Size?, by Bryan Caplan" http://feedly.com/k/1aqMOcm

Secessione e democrazia

"Thoughts on Secession" http://feedly.com/k/1icJVQu

Crescita e colonialismo

"Do European settlers account for 40% of all development ever outside Europe?" http://feedly.com/k/1cskOVb

Metodi per la lotta all' evasione

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La sottile distinzione tra previdenza e assistenza

Lavoce.info - ARTICOLI - La sottile distinzione tra previdenza e assistenza:

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l'integrazione al trattamento minimo... si dirà che questo è un importo che per definizione si aggiunge alla componente previdenziale della pensione, ed è perciò inequivocabilmente ascrivibile all'assistenza. Ma attenzione! L'assicurazione contro gli incendi prevede l'indennizzo non di tutti gli assicurati, ma soltanto di coloro che hanno subito un incendio, per ovviare al bisogno in cui sono venuti a trovarsi. È, questa, assistenza? No, è assicurazione, ossia un contratto stipulato con lo specifico accordo che saranno indennizzate le vittime di un sinistro. 
Si può quindi a buon diritto sostenere la natura assicurativa di un "contratto sociale" in base al quale, sin dall'inizio dell'attività, tutti i lavoratori pagano un contributo, con l'intesa che coloro i quali avranno avuto una carriera troppo saltuaria e/o mal rimunerata otterranno una maggiorazione rispetto all'equivalente attuariale dei contributi. È prevedibile che i "riduzionisti" si stracceranno le vesti di fronte a questa tesi, che peraltro merita attenta considerazione. (Se, poi, si teme il moral hazard, ossia una scelta di lavoro volta ad approfittare di questa prospettiva, l'obiezione vale anche se l'integrazione al minimo è definita assistenziale).

Socialismo e capitalismo di Stato

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Costantino e i diritti di bambini e animali

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Perché si preferisce assumere persone capaci?

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Tassare i camminatori?

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Bòare

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Quando è meglio farsi giudicare? LINK

Kahneman, Mental Effort, and the Scary Parole Study, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty:

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mercoledì 13 novembre 2013

Come comprare una casa

"How to Buy a House" http://feedly.com/k/17UipWo

Pedofili fedeli

https://www.facebook.com/riccardo.mariani.585/posts/10202680673245140

Commercio internazionale

https://www.facebook.com/riccardo.mariani.585/posts/10202686931281587

Demarchia

https://www.facebook.com/riccardo.mariani.585/posts/10202703554937168

Petrolio e prezzi

https://www.facebook.com/riccardo.mariani.585/posts/10202703686700462

Tutto il resto è noia

https://www.facebook.com/riccardo.mariani.585/posts/10202703712141098

Elasticità inattese

https://www.facebook.com/riccardo.mariani.585/posts/10202703960867316

Lo spettro della quantificazione

https://www.facebook.com/riccardo.mariani.585/posts/10202703981627835

Supply side market monetarism

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Democrazia e crescita

"Democracy and growth - Springer" http://feedly.com/k/18sRLyj

Suicidi e pistole

"Firearms and Suicides in US States" http://feedly.com/k/1iakTSf

lunedì 11 novembre 2013

giovedì 7 novembre 2013