Num dos clássicos da Economia Política aparece escrito que todas as leis ou regulamentos propostas por homens de negócios devem ser encaradas com extrema cautela e suspeita, porque "é geralmente do interesse deles enganar ou mesmo oprimir o público".
Quem é o autor desta frase ? Karl Marx ? Não, meus amigos!
A frase foi escrita pelo pai da moderna teoria económica , Adam Smith na "Riqueza das Nações":
(...) The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public.
To widen the market, and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.
To widen the market may frequently be agreeable enough to the interest of the public ; but to narrow the competition must always be against it, and can only serve to enable the dealers, by raising their profits above what they naturally would be, to levy, for their own benefit, an absurd tax upon the rest of their fellow-citizens.
The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it. (...)
To widen the market, and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.
To widen the market may frequently be agreeable enough to the interest of the public ; but to narrow the competition must always be against it, and can only serve to enable the dealers, by raising their profits above what they naturally would be, to levy, for their own benefit, an absurd tax upon the rest of their fellow-citizens.
The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it. (...)
P.S. Tavares Moreira, ex-governador do Banco de Portugal e por este impedido de exercer actividade na banca, a ser investigada pela PGR por indícios de "ocultação de prejuízos e manipulação de contas" aquando da sua passagem pelo Conselho de Administração do Central - banco de investimento , teve de demitir-se da administração do Banco Africano de Investimento mas continua alegremente deputado e porta-voz para a área financeira do PSD porque caso contrário, e segundo o próprio, "isso significaria dar razão ao Banco de Portugal". Ora para além da insustentabilidade e absoluto delírio deste peregrino raciocínio (que abole entre outras coisas o conceito de prisão preventiva ...) começa a ser incrível o facto de Tavares Moreira, ainda não ter feito as malas, e passado à reserva, pelo menos até que tudo esteja esclarecido. Parece que espera que se fale na mala... Com amigos assim não há consultores de imagem que valham a Durão Barroso.
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