quinta-feira, maio 20, 2004

Recordar é viver...

Este é velho, mas hoje uma aluna foi lá na sala tirar dúvidas. Eu não resisti e tive de lhe falar sobre o tema.

Aqui vai um trecho + o link.

Is Christmas Inefficient?: "After hundreds of years of attacks on Christmas, economists have finally gotten into the act. Yale University's Joel Waldfogel, writing in the American Economic Review, condemns what he calls 'The Deadweight Loss of Christmas.' Once you cut through the calculus and graphs, his conclusion is clear: though Christmas generates a $50 billion gift-giving industry, a tenth to a third of that is sheer loss. Why? Because the recipient doesn't always get what he wants. Given the chance, the recipient would have purchased something else. "