O consumo como investimento: a teoria do capital humano e o capital humano como ethos

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12/2009
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Universidade Estadual de Londrina
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1414-0543
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2176-6665
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Portugués
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O artigo propõe discutir a diluição da fronteira conceitual entre ´consumo´ e ´investimento´, argumentado que ela é uma peça fundamental para a compreensão do capitalismo na sua etapa atual e dos valores que orientam a sociedade contemporânea. Conceitos cunhados pela teoria do capital humano – teoria econômica dos anos 1960 – são difundidos hoje como valores que orientam a conduta dos indivíduos. Produz-se, assim, um deslocamento conceitual-valorativo do consumo para o investimento que permite inusitadas formas de ´postergar satisfações consumindo agora´. A área difusa que é criada entre ´consumo´ e ´investimento´ ajuda a entender como a ética protestante do trabalho é reeditada numa ´ética do trabalho empresarial´, isto é, do trabalho entendido em termos de ´empreendimento´ individual.
This paper discusses the dilution of the conceptual border between “consumption” and “investment.” We argue that it is a key element for the understanding of capitalism in its current stage and the values guiding contemporary society. Some concepts created by Human Capital Theory – an economic theory from the 1960s – are widely viewed today as values that guide the behavior of individuals. This yields to a conceptual–axiological shift from consumption to investment that allows unusual forms of “delaying satisfaction by consuming now.” The diffuse area that is created between “consumption” and “investment” helps to understand how the Protestant work ethic is recreated as an “ethic of entrepreneurial work,” that is, of work understood in terms of “individual enterprise”.
This paper discusses the dilution of the conceptual border between “consumption” and “investment.” We argue that it is a key element for the understanding of capitalism in its current stage and the values guiding contemporary society. Some concepts created by Human Capital Theory – an economic theory from the 1960s – are widely viewed today as values that guide the behavior of individuals. This yields to a conceptual–axiological shift from consumption to investment that allows unusual forms of “delaying satisfaction by consuming now.” The diffuse area that is created between “consumption” and “investment” helps to understand how the Protestant work ethic is recreated as an “ethic of entrepreneurial work,” that is, of work understood in terms of “individual enterprise”.
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