AS FAZENDAS DISTÓPICAS DE GEORGE ORWELL E CHICO BUARQUE: TRANSFIGURAÇÕES FICCIONAIS DO AUTORITARISMO

Intellectual freedom versus economic centralization 1984 and George Orwell ’ s

TO THE END of his life, George Orwell remained a socialist. In “Why I Write” (1946), we find his programmatic statement: “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.”* Orwell had fiercely attacked the attitude of capitalist society towards the poor in Down and Our in...

Down and almost out in Scotland: George Orwell, tuberculosis and getting streptomycin in 1948.

Old George Orwell Got It Backward: Some Thoughts on Behavioral Tax Economics

It is entirely appropriate that the study of public finance take seriously ‘‘behavioral’’ inconsistencies with traditional models of individual and collective decision-making. This raises the question of whether the state should play a role in protecting individuals from themselves, and whether individuals are susceptible to manipulation, or even exploitation, by the people who comprise the sta...

Balanço do Págico e perspetivas de futuro

Uma avaliação só está conclúıda quando se faz um balanço e se tiram ilações para o futuro. Neste artigo discutimos o que foi obtido com o Págico, o que podia ter sido melhor, e propomos o que nos parece interessante de realizar numa próxima edição. Tentámos estruturar o balanço segundo as vertentes descritas na motivação do Págico, resumindo e opinando sobre outros artigos nesta edição, e depoi...

Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus resistant to acaricides and ivermectin in cattle farms of Mexico Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus resistentes aos acaricidas e ivermectina nas fazendas de gado do México

Ticks and the diseases they transmit cause great economic losses to livestock in tropical countries. Non-chemical control alternatives include the use of resistant cattle breeds, biological control and vaccines. However, the most widely used method is the application of different chemical classes of acaricides and macrocyclic lactones. Populations of the cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) m...