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David Revilla davidrev en gmail.com
Sab Jun 30 18:39:48 WEST 2012


Revelador, gracias.
Tampoco tiene porqué ser incompatible esta afirmación con lo que 
sostiene Navarro, de hecho se complementan ambas situaciones, se 
alimentan mutuamente.
Lo suyo sería que JLF dijera algo al respecto, claro.

El 30/06/2012 18:36, Pedro J. Hdez escribió:
> El día 30 de junio de 2012 17:10, German Perez-Gandaras
> <singladura44 en gmail.com> escribió:
>>   O sea la publicación en revistas económicas de impacto.
>>
>> Articulo clarificador de Navarro sobre este tema.
>>
>> <http://www.vnavarro.org/?p=7466>
>>
>> "En realidad, la banca controla hoy las revistas económicas de mayor
>> renombre en el mundo académico, lo cual rompe con el principio de
>> libertad académica, pues trabajos de investigación críticos a la banca
>> no aparecen en tales revistas. "
>>
>> "Las cátedras Fedea son cátedras financiadas por la banca y por
>> grandes grupos empresariales, que gozan de grandes recursos y cajas de
>> resonancia, frente a los economistas críticos que están en una
>> situación claramente discriminada."
> Pero en caso de que sea cierto, también debe ser un fenómeno local. En
> el libro que estoy leyendo y que es una crítica a la teoría económica
> neoclásica, el autor (australiano) sin embargo afirma que en general
> es un problema de cómo se enseña la economía en las facultades. Cito.
>
> Why has economics persisted with a theory which has been
> comprehensively shown to be unsound? Why, despite the destructive
> impact of economic policies, does economics continue to be the toolkit
> which politicians and bureaucrats apply to almost all social and
> economic issues?
> The answer lies in the way economics is taught in the world's universities.
> When I became an academic economist, I realized that very few of my
> colleagues had any knowledge of the turbulent streams in economics.
> Most were simply dismissive of any attempt to criticize orthodox
> thinking, and equally dismissive of any of their peers who showed
> tendencies towards unconventional thought.
> This was not because these conventional economists were
> anti-intellectual -- far from it. Even though conventional economics is
> flawed, it still takes intellectual muscle to master its principles --
> as you will soon discover. Yet still economists refused to consider
> any criticisms of economic theory, even when they emanated from other
> economists, and met rigorous intellectual standards.
> Nor were they ill intentioned -- most of them sincerely believed that,
> if only people followed the principles of economic theory, the world
> would be a better place. For a group of people who espoused a
> philosophy of individualistic hedonism, they were remarkably
> altruistic in their commitment to what they saw as the common good.
> Yet the policies they promoted often seem to non-economists to damage
> the fabric of human society, rather than to enhance it.
> They also rejected out of hand any suggestion that they were
> ideologically motivated. They were scientists, not political
> activists. They recommended market solutions, not because they were
> personally pro-capitalist, but because economic theory proved that the
> market was the best mechanism by which to determine economic issues.
> Yet virtually everything they recommended at least appeared to favor
> rich over poor, capitalist over worker, privileged over dispossessed.
> I came to the conclusion that the reason they displayed such
> anti-intellectual, apparently socially destructive, and apparently
> ideological behavior lay deeper than any superficial personal
> pathologies. Instead, the way in which they had been educated had
> given them the behavioral traits of zealots rather than of
> dispassionate intellectuals.
>
> saludos
>
> Pedro J.
>
>> "Es sorprendente que, a pesar del enorme fracaso de las políticas
>> económicas neoliberales, gocen de las plataformas y forums desde donde
>> predican el dogma neoliberal que está haciendo tanto taño a las clases
>> populares de España."
>>
>> Muy clarificador también sobre el concepto de costes laborales y su
>> relación con la producción.
>>
>> Os lo recomiendo.
>>
>> Saludiños
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