Ontem acabei de ler… X

Recomendo a quem queira saber do assunto. Como já expliquei, tento sempre que me é possível ler o original e foi o que fiz. Mas está traduzido em Português e espero que bem, porque merece!

Não tenho paciência para escrever todas as citações que deveria mas ficam algumas:

“The problem is that money is not really a thing at all but a social technology: a set of ideas and practices which organize what we produce and consume, and the way we live together.”

“So there is a paradox at the heart of money. It is a social technology which depends on other people. Yet it is a social technology which isolates us from other people, by trans forming the rich and varied ecology of human relationships into mechanical an monotonous clockwork of financial relationships.”

“ money is not the value for which Goods are exchanged, but the Value by which they are Exchanged.”

“ money depends on social trust, and credit in business is like loyalty in government, …, it is a power which may grow, but cannot be constructed.”

“Monetary stability will actually breed financial instability.”

“ current structure generates an unjust distribution of risks, where losses are socialized – taxpayers are on hook for bail-outs – while gains are private – the banks and their investors alone reap any profit.”

“ As a result of our of our current, dire economic circumstances, we are relearning the fact that monetary policy is intensely political; so in monetary policy, as in all policy, the challenge is to govern well – not to pretend there is no need for governing”

FATifer