A primeira crise a gente nunca esquece...

O médico nunca esquece a primeira cirurgia, o engenheiro nunca esquece a primeira obra, o dentista nunca esquece a primeira obturação (hahahahah, q nojo!) , o economista ñunca esquece a primeira grande crise! O jornal inglês "The Guardian" fez uma série de entrevistas com pessoas de esquerda na Inglaterra sobre o que elas achavam desta crise. Achei bem razoável o que o ex-prefeito de Londres falou: para quem não o conhece, ele governou Londres por bastante tempo (2000-2008), é um político reconhecido na Inglaterra, do Partido Trabalhista. Para o deleite econômico/acadêmico da Camlinha, o texto é em inglês...

tirado de: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/17/recession.labour

Ken Livingstone

Former Mayor of London

Sadly, I don't think this will be the end of capitalism. But there is going to have to be a return to a much, much more interventionist state. As a system for the distribution and exchange of goods, you can't beat the market. But the mistake a lot of politicians have made is to think that because the market was good at that, it could be good at everything: it could train workers, create infrastructure, protect the environment, regulate itself. Quite obviously, it can't.

So the real issue is, what sort of international structures do we need to ensure this never happens again? Thatcher and Reagan deregulated massively and let the financial markets do as they liked - and they've turned into one bloody great big rip-off. The good news is, there'll now be a realisation - even George Bush sees this now - that we need international regulatory mechanisms that will ensure, for example, that these people and operations actually pay tax. There'll be a realisation in Britain that while it's certainly useful to host a world financial centre, it has to rest on a solid, genuinely productive real economy. In China now they make things; we've decided we're not interested in that.