2 The Lessons of the Playground - Fair Play: What Your Child Can Teach You About Economics, Values and the Meaning of Life by Steven E. Landsburg

2 The Lessons of the Playground - Fair Play: What Your Child Can Teach You About Economics, Values and the Meaning of Life by Steven E. Landsburg - #chisicontentagode #poverimeritevoli #retoricaredistributiva #condividereoredistribuire #cosainsegniaituoibimbi? #rubarepocofabene? #laredistribuzionedeigiocattoli

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Note: La retorica redistribuzionista: i ricchi hanno troppo i povrri troppo poco. Occorre + equità. Domanda: ma i politici che indulgono a una simile visione ci credono veramente... Basta un'occhiata alla vita di cortile x smascherare la grande ipocrisia: noi spingiamo i ns figli a condividere ma mai ventiliamo il diritto al furto... Nella vita dei piccoli la parabol della cicala si ripete ossessivamente: chi sperpera ora poi si ripresenta all'incasso in lacrime. Al che il genitore è costretto al sermoncino. Purtroppo qs sermoncino ce lo scordiamo nel mondo degli adulti... C'è chi difende il canone dicendo: è poca cosa di fronte alle spese militari. Chissà come reagiscono qs apologeti del canone quando i loro figli parlano così: "ok, ho rubato un biscotto ma conosco un bambino che ha rubato una bicicletta"... Conclusione: da genitori riconosciamo subito gli argomenti difettosi anche se con qs continuiamo ad usarli tra adulti... Edit

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the usual rhetoric: “The rich have too much and the poor have too little”; “They have more than they deserve,”Read more at location 159

Note: RETORICA Edit

The fact of the matter is that nobody really believes the rhetoric of redistribution.Read more at location 164

Note: NESSUNO CI CREDE Edit

How do I know this? I know it because I have a daughter, and I take my daughter to the playground, and I listen to what the other parents tell their children. In my considerable experience, I have never, ever, heard a parent say to a child that it’s okay to forcibly take toys away from other children who have more toys than you do.Read more at location 167

Note: LE FONTI DELLA CONOSCENZA. LA REDISTRIBUZIONE DEI GIOCATTOLI

We do, of course, encourage sharing, and we try to make our children feel ashamed when they are very selfish.Read more at location 171

Note: CONDIVIDERE E REDISTRIBUIRE Edit

Moreover, there is no such thing as a legitimate government with the moral authority to do your stealing for you.Read more at location 173

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The lessons we teach our children reveal the truth that is in our hearts. If you want to know what a politician or a commentator really believes, look not to his speeches or his columns, but to the advice he gives his children.Read more at location 178

Note: COSA INSEGNI AI TUOI BIMBI Edit

For dessert, each had a choice of ice cream now or bubble gum later. Alix chose the ice cream; Cayley chose the bubble gum.Read more at location 182

Note: GELATO E GOMME Edit

After Alix had finished her ice cream, we went off to buy Cayley’s gum. Cayley got her gum, Alix got nothing, and Alix cried foul.Read more at location 183

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The same issues arise in adult life. Paul and Peter face the same range of opportunities in their youth. Paul chooses the easy life, working forty hours a week for a guaranteed wage. Peter devotes his youth to creating a new enterprise, working around the clock for risky rewards. Then, in middle age, when Peter is rich and Paul is not, Paul cries foul and assaults the system that fosters inequality.Read more at location 186

Note: CICALA E FORMICA Edit

And what about differences in income that result not from choice but from pure chance? Once again, look to what you tell your children.Read more at location 192

Note: FORTUNA Edit

If you’ve ever served cake to more than once child at a time, you’ve heard the refrain “No fair—my piece is smaller.” And if you were feeling very patient at the time, you might have tried to explain that a child who can enjoy his cake without regard for what’s on his sister’s plate can expect a lot more happiness in life than a child who is constantly distracted by the need to make comparisons.Read more at location 193

Note: LA FETTA È PIÙ PICCOLA. CHI SI CONTENTA GODE Edit

Because we want our children to be happy, we tell them that when somebody gives you a piece of cake, you have occasion to rejoice, and that if another child has more, you might remember that the world is also full of children who have less.Read more at location 196

Note: IL SEGRETO DELLA FELICITÀ Edit

The disconnect between the standards adults impose on themselves, and the standards they impose on their children, is rarely to the adults’ credit.Read more at location 199

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NPR apologists (adults all) attempt to dismiss that small predation by pointing to others that are much larger: The Navy alone, for example, spends ten times as much for weapons procurement.Read more at location 201

Note: IL CANONE Edit

“Sure, I stole the cookies, but I know another kid who stole a bicycle”?

1 The Economist as Parent and the Parent as Economist - Fair Play: What Your Child Can Teach You About Economics, Values and the Meaning of Life by Steven E. Landsburg

1 The Economist as Parent and the Parent as Economist - Fair Play: What Your Child Can Teach You About Economics, Values and the Meaning of Life by Steven E. Landsburg - #sceltedifficili #tolleranzaecompassioneipannialtrui #esperimentodelcarrello #caèirecomesicapisce #lalinguadelcortilechiariscetutto #

1 The Economist as Parent and the Parent as EconomistRead more at location 89

Note: Se sei un genitore sei un economista. L"economia riguarda le scelte difficili. Praticandola scopri quante variabili entrano in gioco e diventi + tollerante... L'economia allena la compassione. Perchè i carrelli della spesa sono oggi + grandi che ieri? Devi metterti nei panni di una famiglia tipo per scoprirlo... A volte questioni complesse diventano magicamente semplici quando spiegate al proprio figlio. Talmente semplici che le impara meglio anche il genitore. Un'occasione da nn perdere.. Edit

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If you’re a parent, then you’re an economics teacher. Economics is about facing difficult choices:Read more at location 100

Note: LA SCELTA Edit

One of the great lessons of economics is that there is no single best way to resolve such choices; everything depends on circumstances;Read more at location 104

Note: CIRCOSTANZE Edit

Economics is the science of tolerance. Good economics professors teach their students that people can live very differently than youRead more at location 105

Note: LA DIVERSITÀ Edit

Economics breeds not just tolerance but compassion. The economist’s method is to observe behavior closely, the better to understand other people’s goalsRead more at location 107

Note: METTERSI NEI PANNI ALTRUI Edit

On the first day of class, I ask my students to tell me why today’s grocery shoppers demand larger cartsRead more at location 110

Note: IL PROBLEMA DEI CARRELLI Edit

Today’s working women can’t shop every week the way their mothers did; they (or their husbands) must stock up more on each infrequent trip. Or: Today’s working women can’t cook dinner for the entire family as their mothers did; instead they buy enough food so that mom, dad, and the kids can all fend for themselves. Or: Today’s wealthier families serve a greater variety of dishes at each meal. Or: Today’s wealthier shoppers are willing to pay higher grocery prices for luxuries like wide aisles and the carts those aisles can accommodate. Or: Today’s larger houses provide more storage space in the pantry. Or: Today’s ubiquitous ATM machines mean that shoppers are no longer constrained by their unwillingness to carry lots of cash.Read more at location 111

Note: 6 RISPOSTE POSSIBILI Edit

One student says that today’s shoppers buy more because advertising techniques have become more effective.Read more at location 117

Note: PUBBLICITÀ Edit

The point of the exercise is not to understand shopping carts; it’s to understand the technique of understanding. To succeed at this game, students must be sensitive to the problems of familiesRead more at location 119

Note: CAPIRE COME CAPIRE Edit

Learning to see the world through someone else’s eyes is an essential part of economic training; it’s also an essential part of growing up.Read more at location 120

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Sometimes issues that seem murky and difficult in the language of the classroom become clear and simple in the language of the living room,Read more at location 143

Note: LA LINGUA DEL CORTILE Edit

This suggests that parents and economists have a lot to teach each other