Tenho idade suficiente para ter ouvido na TV pessoas, como Mário Soares e Vítor Constâncio, falarem com ar sério e compenetrado sobre as vantagens do socialismo científico.
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Ontem, na fita do tempo do twitter, via @GabrielfSilva, encontrei esta tolice decidida pelo Chavismo que está a arrastar a Venezuela para os Infernos:
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«firms will have to report production costs so officials can set what is deemed a fair price.»
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Hoje de manhã, durante o jogging descobri esta pérola sobre o socialismo científico:
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"Allende was elected President of Chile in 1970 on a Marxist platform, and went on to sponsor one of the most surreal examples of the planner’s dream, Project CyberSyn. CyberSyn used a ‘supercomputer’ called the Burroughs 3500, and a network of telex machines, in an attempt to coordinate decision-making in an increasingly nationalised economy.
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Workers – or more usually, managers – would telex reports of production, shortages and other information at 5 o’clock each morning. Operators would feed the information into the Burroughs 3500, and by 5 p.m. a report could be presented to Allende for his executive input. As with the effects-based operations it predated, CyberSyn would allow for feedback and second-order effects. Some CyberSyn defenders argue that the system was designed to devolve decision-making to the appropriately local level, but that does not seem to be what Allende had in mind when he said that, ‘
We are and always shall be in favour of a centralised economy, and companies will have to conform to the Government’s planning.’
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The project was not a success. Chile’s economy collapsed, thanks to a combination of the chaos brought on by an ambitious programme of nationalisation, industrial unrest, and overt and covert economic hostility from the United States."
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Só que o socialismo científico travestiu-se e contaminou até os Estados Unidos:
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"Donald Rumsfeld had better computers at his disposal than Salvador Allende, but the dream was much the same: information delivered in detail, real-time, to a command centre from which computer-aided decisions could be sent back to the front line. Rumsfeld pored over real-time data from the theatre of war and sent memos about minor operational qestions to generals such as Abizaid and Casey. But even had Rumsfeld been less of a control freak, the technology was designed to empower a centralised decision maker, be it the secretary of defense or a four-star general.
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But such systems always deliver less than they promise, because they remain incapable of capturing the tacit knowledge that really matters."
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Esta mania do planeamento centralizado... CyberSyn... faz-me lembrar
Citius na Justiça por cá.
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Graças a Deus que estamos a entranharmos-nos num mundo, Mongo, onde cada vez mais estas tentativas centralizadoras vão ser ridicularizadas, abandonadas, para darem lugar a um toque local... Ghemawatt e o seu "World 3.0" são apenas mais um exemplo disso.
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Trechos retirados de "Adapt" de Tim Harford que se arrisca a ser a minha melhor leitura de 2011, e mais, é mais uma leitura que vou aconselhar aos meus filhos.
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BTW, H.R. McMaster e David Petraeus, oficiais americanos no Iraque são duas personagens...
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Dedico estas duas citações a todos aqueles que pedem uma estratégia para o país e para a sua economia, a todos aqueles que pensam com uma candura e inocência que a "
retoma" (detesto esta
palavra) está assente nas acções do ministro Álvaro.
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‘It’s so damn complex. If you ever think you have the solution to this, you’re wrong and
you’re dangerous.’ – H.R. McMaster
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‘In the absence of guidance or orders, figure out what they should have been … ’ – part of a sign on a command-post door in west Baghdad, commandeered by David Petraeus