GEIA: Libro Recomendado del Mes (marzo 2009)

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Libro Recomendado del Mes (marzo 2009)

Libro recomendado del mes:

ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
and
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

Autor: CARROLL, Lewis

Idioma: los hay en castellano, pero es recomendable que se lean en el idioma original, el inglés

Materias Relacionadas: Economía Matemática

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, más conocido por su pseudónimo Lewis Caroll, dedica estos dos libros a la niñez, y es pues una historia fantástica de una niña en un mundo de sueños. Sin embargo, para el público adulto resulta un libro algo complejo, en cada capítulo se presentan problemas de lógica que contienen muchos detalles que no se pueden ignorar. El método pedagógico tradicional, prima el desarrollo de habilidades cerebrales del hemisferio izquierdo, mientras que el lado derecho queda rezagado. El hemisferio derecho contiene la parte lógica y creativa del ser humano. Durante la niñez la creatividad y la lógica son características imperantes. Por eso Lewis Caroll, dedico seguramente este libro al público infantil, quizá imaginaba que los adultos no podrían asimilar la belleza de estos libros.

Anímate a redescubrir EL PAÍS DE LAS MARAVILLAS (lógicas)... lee estos dos libros.

Juan Carlos Serrano

Frases:

«‘Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?’

‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat

‘I don’t much care where-‘said Alice.

‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go’ said the Cat.

‘-so long as I get somewhere,’ Alice added as explanation.

‘Oh, you’re sure to that,’ said the Cat, ‘if you only walk long enough.’»

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Frases de Economistas

"The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed sixty years without nuclear weapons exploded in anger."
Thomas Schelling, Nobel Prize 2005

“We all talk about the same things, but we have not yet agreed what it is we are talking about”
Lionel Robbins (acerca de la definición de Economía), 1945

"We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things."
A. Von Hayek, Nobel Prize 1974

“I confess that I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much indetermined and unpredictable, to a pretence of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.”
A. Von Hayek, 1974

"Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions…. Year after year economic theorists continue to produce scores of mathematical models and to explore in great detail their formal properties; and the econometricians fit algebraic functions of all possible shapes to essentially the same sets of data without being able to advance, in any perceptible way, a systematic understanding of the structure and the operations of a real economic system."
Wassily Leontief, 1973 Nobel Memorial Prize Winner in Economic Science

“Scarcity is power, and more power than you might have thought”
Tim Harford, 2008

...What does the economist economize? " 'Tis love, 'tis love," said the Duchess, "that makes the world go round." "Somebody said," whispered Alice, "that it's done by everybody minding their own business." "Ah well," replied the Duchess, "it means much the same thing." Not perhaps quite so nearly the same thing as Alice's contemporaries thought. But if we economists mind our own business, and do that business well, we can, I believe, contribute mightily to the economizing, that is, to the full but thrifty utilization of that scarce resource Love—which we know, just as well as anybody else, to be the most precious thing in the world.
Sir Dennis H. Robertson