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Deixo aqui uma recomendação de leitura que não tem que ver com ES, mas que é sobre algo que nos diz respeito como cidadãos em sociedade. Sociedade essa que temos a obrigação de compreender, de ver de onde vem, e de, de algum modo, prever a sua evolução futura. Sendo uma análise da crise recente, que eu acho que é mais que económica, pode fazer-nos reflectir sobre as escolhas que fazemos todos os dias e as respectivas consequências. Uma citação significativa:
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Most of what happened over the past decade across the world was legal. Bankers did what they were allowed to do under the law. Politicians did what they thought the system asked of them. Bureaucrats were not exchanging cash for favors. But very few people acted responsibly, honorably or nobly (the very word sounds odd today). This might sound like a small point, but it is not. No system—capitalism, socialism, whatever—can work without a sense of ethics and values at its core. No matter what reforms we put in place, without common sense, judgment and an ethical standard, they will prove inadequate. We will never know where the next bubble will form, what the next innovations will look like and where excesses will build up. But we can ask that people steer themselves and their institutions with a greater reliance on a moral compass.
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Fareed Zakaria. The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed Is Good (To a point), NewsWeek de 22 de Junho de 2009 (±5 pp.)
(Via editorial de JMFernandes sobre R. Dahrendorf, no Público de 19 de Junho)