Novamente, como fã do pop-star Amartya Sen, farei propaganda de um escrito seu no New York Review of Books . Sen escreveu um pequeno artigo sobre a crise, o capitalismo e as idéias de Smith, passando por Keynes e por seu professor Pigou, tão mencionado negativamente na Teoria Geral. Vou copiar alguns trechos que merecem ser transcritos (agradeço a Ana Barufi por mandar o mapa da mina): " For example, the pioneering works of Adam Smith in the eighteenth century showed the usefulness and dynamism of the market economy, and why—and particularly how—that dynamism worked [...]" "[...] the huge limitations of relying entirely on the market economy and the profit motive were also clear enough even to Adam Smith. Indeed, early advocates of the use of markets, including Smith, did not take the pure market mechanism to be a freestanding performer of excellence, nor did they take the profit motive to be all that is needed." "Smith's economic analysis went well beyond ...
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