Riccardo Barbieri

Most of modern society is (still) based on economic gain. Many (most) people will find this logic, because they don't know anything else and society has worked like that for generations. Thus they think this is unalterable. As in former eras people thought it was unalterable that society were mainly based on war or on religion or on some feudal system or that the earth was flat.

2011-06-09

• 06/06/2011 Islandia - El primer ministro comparece ante la Justicia por su gestión de la crisis
  El fiscal exige condenar al exprimer ministro por desoír las advertencias que recibió sobre la grave situación de la banca del país
  [el primer ministro] está acusado de negligencia grave durante su mandato, durante el que se produjo el colapso bancario de su país en octubre de 2008....
  A pesar de los avisos recibidos entre otros por el Banco Nacional, Haarde no adoptó ninguna medida para reducir los efectos del colapso antes de que éste se produjera ni presionó a los bancos {los mercados? inversores?} para vender sus activos y disminuir los riesgos....
• 09/06/2011 Perú - El dinero apoya al fujimorismo
  La Bolsa y el sol se hunden ante la incertidumbre electoral
  Los mercados dan un voto de confianza al nuevo presidente de Perú
  Humala garantiza una política económica ortodoxa y tranquiliza a los inversores
  Tras un batacazo histórico de la Bolsa de Lima el día después de conocerse la victoria electoral del político nacionalista, las agencias de calificación de solvencia financiera confirmaron las buenas perspectivas de la economía....
  Las agencias Standard & Poor's, Moody's y Fitch descartaron una revisión a la baja de la solvencia financiera de Perú a medio plazo, después de que tanto Humala como el portavoz económico del bloque nacionalista y posible ministro de Economía, Kurt Burneo, salieran a la palestra para pedir calma a los mercados y asegurar que el Gobierno que asumirá el próximo 28 de julio mantendrá una política macroeconómica ortodoxa, una política fiscal responsable, la autonomía del Banco Central, y las garantías para que el país siga siendo atractivo para las inversiones internacionales.
  Los inversores ya dan por descontado que el equipo económico del futuro Gobierno será de corte moderado.

Soy un poco simple o capto correctamente que se supone que Perú/Humala ahora deben estar contentos porque muestran confianza en su futuro los mismos que han llevado a la quiebra a Islandia y a la justicia su exprimer ministro? Es decir los "mercados" (por cierto, ¿quienes son?), inversores, bancos y las agencias de calificación, en otras palabras los manipuladores financieros alias especuladores? 

• 31/05/2011 - Académicos tras la especulación (El País)
  Los turbios lazos entre profesores universitarios y Wall Street avivan el debate de hasta qué punto el sector financiero ha corrompido el estudio de la economía

2011-05-12

• La economía de la infelicidad -  Borja Vilaseca (periódico el pais)
  "muchos confunden la verdadera felicidad con sucedáneos como el placer, la satisfacción y la euforia que proporcionan el consumo de bienes materiales y el entretenimiento"
• Consumir consumir consumir - Cristina Sáez  (revista reded)
  Comprar, tirar, comprar - Cosima Dannoritzer
  La obsolencia programada
• Cradle to cradle

Money

Money is a means.

In the "old times" money didn't exist. People simply exchanged 'products' or 'services'. Eggs for a piece of meat, ....

Most people nowadays have forgotten this. They think of money as a goal. In fact a great deal of society thinks money is a goal and is based on this shortsighted understanding of life.

As long as I remember, I have always felt lucky to live in the current times (and in Europe, actually, Holland). I developed this conscience at a young age when I started to understand how fine a life I (we) had comparing to what the middle ages must have been; misery, hunger, cold, the plague, war, political oppression and religious oppression...

The established order

The "Established Order" (let's say EO) is a concept that can be considered at several scale levels running from small and short term to large and long term. We all know the small scale, generally short term, Established Order by personal experience, being our parents/tutors the first established order we have to deal with. Then there is the teachers, the police or your boss.

The large scale established order is generally not represented by a specific person that we deal with directly, even if in many cases it does have direct influence on our lives, sometimes even without being aware: emperors, kings and queens, spiritual leaders, religions, governments and most recently: banks and the international mega-coorporations.

The marketing game

The pillars of marketing are known as the 4 P's of the marketing mix: Product, Price, Place and Promotion. Sometimes Packaging is considered a 5th P and there was even a 6th, but I don't remember what. It's not really relevant.

A new (economic) order

1 - should reduce Production Push and Buying Craze (PPBC)

The famous Ps of the marketing mixed could well be associated differently to the describe the current economic order:

Publicity Pushes Products Producing Poor People

Poor people in two ways:

• the Poor People from the underdeveloped countries that are, in many cases, collectively ripped off by the rich country's companies
• the Poor People from the rich countries that are mentally poor due to too much publicity that blurs their mind