Integration, Currency Unions, and Balance of Payments

• Peter Temin - MIT
• William Mitchell - CofFEE
• Richard Koo - Nomura
• Martin Wolf - Financial Times

Piketty - Uma nova teoria do capitalismo

“Não há qualquer processo natural e espontâneo que previna que forças desestabilizadoras e promotoras de desigualdades possam prevalecer permanentemente”
(...) aquilo que normalmente acontece é a taxa de retorno do capital (o que se consegue obter de lucro em percentagem do capital investido) ser mais alta do que a taxa de crescimento económico. E que quando isso acontece, não havendo qualquer intervenção exterior, o que temos é um aumento da desigualdade na distribuição de rendimentos. (...)
(...) o capitalismo precisa de encontrar soluções para evitar esta escalada da desigualdade e sugere-as.

A principal é um aumento muito acentuado da carga fiscal sobre os mais ricos. O livro sugere a aplicação de uma taxa de imposto de 80% sobre os rendimentos anuais acima de 500 mil dólares (cerca de 365 mil euros) e uma taxa de 10% sobre a riqueza, que torne mais difícil a perpetuação e aprofundamento das desigualdades. Para evitar fugas de capital de uns países para os outros, Piketty diz que a solução tinha de ser implementada à escala mundial.

SÉRGIO ANÍBAL
http://www.publico.pt/economia/noticia/anda-por-ai-um-novo-marx-1637139

10 types of regressions. Which one to use?

Should you use linear or logistic regression? In what contexts? There are hundreds of types of regressions. Here is an overview for data scientists and other analytic practitioners, to help you decide on what regression to use depending on your context. Many of the referenced articles are much better written (fully edited) in my data science Wiley book.

Vincent Granville
http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/10-types-of-regressions-which-one-to-use

Amazing world music

take your time and enjoy!

Rokia Traoré

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrDL6cOXsvw

Amadou & Mariam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw3cy0C4NnM

Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJUE03aeaQ4

Trilok Gurtu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7hCGbq2zu4

Fela Kuti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B1wSECScPA

Oumou Sangaré

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq9shQQJXdQ

Mahmoud Ahmed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSjcrsfCx8g

Mulatu Astatqe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foHcCspcLjs

Rachid Taha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp1m0xbkap4

Gogol Bordello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_81l4DXlwM

Asha Bhosle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGIW-2_1hcU

Orchestra Baobab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukgznh-q8zc

Tinariwen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJbr0W8_X0k

Staff Benda Bilili

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poOaZ6IhexQ

Jupiter & Okwess International

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2MGsWU-nxc

Batida

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiypfOcRTs

TFF

Getting Back to Full Employment

If high unemployment is one of the obstacles to more equitable growth, then the question is: how do we achieve full employment? There are four main ways. Each route faces substantial political opposition, both because of powerful interests that would be hurt by paying higher wages and because of popular prejudices that are persistently promoted in the media.

1. The Federal Reserve Board

2. Government Spending

3. The Trade Deficit

4. Sharing the Work

Dean Baker and  Jared Bernstein
http://rwer.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/full-employment-and-the-path-to-shared-prosperity-3-graphs/