sábado, 29 de janeiro de 2022

Pobreza

 Neoliberalismo, a grande conspiração para ajudar os mais pobres

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Kan vara en bild av text där det står ”45 EXTREME POVERTY 1981-2021 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 1985 1989 1991 1993 1995 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 world population on $1.9 day PovcalNet, Johan Norberg: Progress”
Oxfam’s new report rails against “the recent 40-year period of neoliberalism, during which economic policy choices have been purchased by rich, powerful and corrupt elites”.
If this really happened, this 40-year conspiracy to steal from the poor must be the biggest fiasco in the history of conspiracies. By far.
(Update: Yes, it's adjusted for inflation.)

Africa's future mega cities

 By 2100, 13 of the world’s 20 biggest urban areas will be in Africa.

segunda-feira, 10 de janeiro de 2022

Blackrock

 Quem é a Blackrock, a gestora de $10 trilhões que "desistiu" de investir no Brasil.

Educação superior

 How has higher education changed over the past six decades? It’s not pretty. Real teaching, particularly by tenured faculty, is rare. We also expect less of our college kids but reward them more (a.k.a. grade inflation). And then, thanks to the distorting influence of the federal government, there is the student-loan catastrophe. What is to be done?

Fim do capitalismo?

 Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of more than twenty books, including New York 2140, Red Moon, and the Mars trilogy. He talked to Jacobin about his latest work, his vision of socialism, and why we must fight to imagine the end of capitalism rather than the end of the world.