Sobre Joseph Stiglitz

Pode-se discordar de Stiglitz, mas não se pode tirar-lhe o mérito de ter, já em 2001, revelado com maestria toda a retórica da farsa do banco central independente, metas de inflação etc., perpetrada pelo ideólogos da comunidade financeira internacional.

Vejam o trecho a seguir, extraído do Prefácio escrito por ele, no célebre livro de Karl Poianyi, The Great Transformation (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001):

"We tell developing countries about the importance of democracy, but then, when it comes to the issues they are most concerned with, those that affect their Iivelihoods, the economy, they are told: the iron laws of economics give you little or no choice; and since you (through your democratic political process) are likely to mess things up, you must cede key economic decisions, say concerning macroeconomic policy, to an independent central bank, almost always dominated by representatives of the financial community; and to ensure that you act in the interests of the financial community, you are told to focus exclusively on inflation - never mind jobs or growth; and to make sure that you do just that, you are told to impose on the central bank rules, such as expanding the money supply at a constant rate; and when one rule fails to work as had been hoped, another rule is brought out, such as inflation targeting."