Da série "Voodoo economics" (4)

Também conhecida por ‘the horse-and-sparrow theory’ ou, na forma mais prosaica, por ‘Horse shit Economics’:

.. the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows. Others have referred to it as the Willy Sutton syndrome. … But one should avoid metaphors, especially those involving horses.

Let us take supply-side theory at its face value, however modest that may be. It holds that the work habits of the American people are tied irrevocably to their income, though in a curiously perverse way. The poor do not work because they have too much income; the rich do not work because they do not have enough income.

You expand and revitalize the economy by giving the poor less, the rich more.

John Kenneth Galbraith, Recession Economics, NYRB, February 4, 1982

Soa familiar? Não admira. É a ‘teoria’ que ‘explica’ o pacote da roubalheira.