Keynes – Economic possibilities for our grandchildren (1930)
Em um contexto precário e que se espera durar muito tempo, Keynes sugeriu que fizéssemos de conta, para nós mesmos e para todo mundo, que o certo é o errado e que o errado é o certo; porque o errado é útil e o certo não é.
“I trace the beginnings of British foreign investment to the treasure which Drake stole from Spain in 1580. In that year he returned to England bringing with him the prodigious spoils of the Golden Hind. Queen Elizabeth was a considerable shareholder in the syndicate which had financed the expedition. Out of her share she paid off the whole of England’s foreign debt, balanced her Budget, and found herself with about £40,000 in hand. This she invested in the Levant Company --which prospered. Out of the profits of the Levant Company, the East India Company was founded; and the profits of this great enterprise were the foundation of England’s subsequent foreign investment. Thus, every £1 which Drake brought home in 1580 has now become £100,000. Such is the power of compound interest!”
“When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. The love of money as a possession -as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life -will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease”.
“I see us free, therefore, to return to some of the most sure and certain principles of religion and traditional virtue-that avarice is a vice, that the exaction of usury is a misdemeanor, and the love of money is detestable, that those walk most truly in the paths of virtue and sane wisdom who take least thought for the morrow. We shall once more value ends above means and prefer the good to the useful”.
“But beware! The time for all this is not yet. For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight”.
Economic possibilities for our grandchildren (1930)
As palavras de Lorde Keynes devem ser relidas no contexto de desmoralização do capitalismo neoliberal. Onde estão a especulação não-desestabilizadora, as virtudes da auto-regulação dos mercados e as tais “expectativas racionais”?
“I trace the beginnings of British foreign investment to the treasure which Drake stole from Spain in 1580. In that year he returned to England bringing with him the prodigious spoils of the Golden Hind. Queen Elizabeth was a considerable shareholder in the syndicate which had financed the expedition. Out of her share she paid off the whole of England’s foreign debt, balanced her Budget, and found herself with about £40,000 in hand. This she invested in the Levant Company --which prospered. Out of the profits of the Levant Company, the East India Company was founded; and the profits of this great enterprise were the foundation of England’s subsequent foreign investment. Thus, every £1 which Drake brought home in 1580 has now become £100,000. Such is the power of compound interest!”
“When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. The love of money as a possession -as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life -will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease”.
“I see us free, therefore, to return to some of the most sure and certain principles of religion and traditional virtue-that avarice is a vice, that the exaction of usury is a misdemeanor, and the love of money is detestable, that those walk most truly in the paths of virtue and sane wisdom who take least thought for the morrow. We shall once more value ends above means and prefer the good to the useful”.
“But beware! The time for all this is not yet. For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight”.
Economic possibilities for our grandchildren (1930)
As palavras de Lorde Keynes devem ser relidas no contexto de desmoralização do capitalismo neoliberal. Onde estão a especulação não-desestabilizadora, as virtudes da auto-regulação dos mercados e as tais “expectativas racionais”?
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