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O governador de Minas Gerais, Aécio Neves, descartou mais uma vez a possibilidade de ser vice- presidente numa possível chapa do pré-candidato tucano José Serra nas eleições de outubro. Clique aqui para ler mais.

John Maynard Keynes apresentou na década de 1920 uma instigante reflexão em “The end of laissez-faire”. A Grande Guerra (1914-18) provocara mudanças profundas e algumas pessoas sentiam que o mundo entraria em uma nova fase. Keynes foi um expoente de seu tempo e sua obra ainda instiga profundas reflexões.

THE END OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE (1926)

John Maynard Keynes

Note

This essay, which was published as a pamphlet by the Hogarth Press in July 1926, was based on the Sidney Ball Lecture given by Keynes at Oxford in November 1924 and a lecture given by him at the University of Berlin in June 1926.

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The disposition towards public affairs, which we conveniently sum up as individualism and laissez-faire, drew its sustenance from many different rivulets of thought and springs of feeling. For more than a hundred years our philosophers ruled us because, by a miracle, they nearly all agreed or seem to agree on this one thing. We do not dance even yet to a new tune. But a change is in the air. We hear but indistinctly what were once the clearest and most distinguishable voices which have ever instructed political mankind. The orchestra of diverse instruments, the chorus of articulate sound, is receding at last into the distance. Leia o resto do artigo »