Gianetti's high-priced ticket repeats the formula of Queen of France.
In an article on his blog, Paulo Moreira Leite compares the general liberalization of suppressed prices, advocated by Eduardo Gianetti, Marina Silva's right-hand man, to a formula used by Queen Marie Antoinette of France, who in the 18th century recommended that the starving people seek out brioches, since they lacked bread; called a "pioneer of tropical neo-conservatism," Gianetti is described by the journalist as an economist who suffers from "social alienation" and does not accept that nowadays the economy should function respecting the interests of the majority.
247 - The journalist Paulo Moreira Leite, director of 247 in Brasília, compared this Tuesday the 9th, in your blogThe proposals for the economy by Eduardo Gianetti, the main advisor to the PSB presidential candidate Marina Silva, are similar to those of Marie Antoinette of France, who in the 18th century recommended to the starving French people that they seek out brioches since they lacked bread.
Leite classified the economist's ideas, aligned with Marina Silva, as "aristocratic and outdated." He cited Gianetti's most recent proposal, the so-called "tariff shock," to liberalize prices suppressed by Dilma Rousseff's government policies. Paulo Moreira Leite also mentioned Eduardo Gianetti's radical stance on sustainability.
"In an effort to reduce environmental pollution produced by cattle farts in the Amazon, Gianetti suggests a change in the Brazilian diet: 'Eating steak is an extravagance from an environmental point of view. The price of meat will have to be very high, milk will have to become more expensive. Everything that has an environmental impact will have to include the real cost and not just the monetary one. That is the decisive change,'" he writes.
Here is an excerpt from Paulo Moreira Leite's analysis:
"A spoiled brat of the Brazilian minimal state, a pioneer of tropical neo-conservatism, with a large audience in newspapers where he defends proposals that have never been voted on, Gianetti's thinking suffers from an absurd degree of social alienation. He does not accept the notion that in today's world a country's economy cannot function without respecting the interests of the majority, without guaranteeing negotiation between social classes, the basis of the political regime that allowed capitalism to coexist with democracy and the progress of the humble."
In this line of thinking, economics is an exercise with lab rats. It is not the work of men and women with their consciences and interests, acquired rights and plans for the future, for their families and their country.
Gianetti's latest idea for the economy, in the event of a Marina Silva victory, is to implement a massive tariff hike—a measure euphemistically called a "tariff shock"—to release prices that have been suppressed by the Dilma Rousseff-Guido Mantega administration. These are administered prices, which are at the heart of the economy."
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