“Ordeals”

Peter Leeson tem sido um sujeito prolífico e de contribuições interessantes ao estudo das instituições em economia. Aqui, mais uma boa leitura, com foco em Análise Econômica do Direito.

A Suprema Corte e o golfe

Eu me pergunto sobre qual seria o similar, no Brasil. Ah, o texto está aqui.

Eficiência do Judiciário…corte estadual

O pessoal do IDERS divulgou uma entrevista muito interessante com Luciana Yeung sobre seu trabalho referente à estimação da eficiência dos judiciários estaduais. Aqui.

Além disso, a entrevista está muito interessante.

Agora é científico: o Judiciário brasileiro tem problemas

When Crime Pays: Measuring Judicial Efficacy against Corruption in Brazil

Ivo T. Gico, Universidade Católica de Brasília
Carlos H. R. de Alencar, Financial Administration School – ESAF

Abstract

There is a widespread perception in Brazil that civil servants caught in corrupt practices are not punished. Yet, until now, there was no hard evidence that would support such claim and some argued that this was just a mislead perception due to the recent increase in anti-corruption measures. One of the main reasons for this notably absence is that it is very difficult to identify actual cases of corruption to, then, measure whether or not they are actually punished by the judicial system. This paper proposes a method of measuring judicial system efficacy against corruption by comparing proven corruption cases punished by administrative committees with criminal and civil judicial performance for the same cases. Ours results show that in fact the Brazilian judicial system is highly ineffective in fighting corruption.

Normas informacionais, normas sociais e sua privacidade

Undermined Norms: The Corrosive Effect of Information Processing Technology on Informational Privacy

Richard Warner
Chicago-Kent Intellectual Property, Science & Technology Research Paper No. 10-028

Abstract:
Informational privacy is a matter of control; it consists in the ability to control when one’s personal information is collected, how it is used, and to whom it is distributed. The degree of control we once enjoyed has vanished. Advances in information processing technology now give others considerable power to determine when personal information is collected, how it is used, and to it is whom distributed. Privacy advocates sound the alarm in regard to both the governmental and private sectors. I focus exclusively on the later. Relying on the extensive privacy advocate literature, I assume we should try to regain control over private sector information process. The question is how. I reject the claim that we can do so by requiring businesses to obtain consent – or more accurately to go through the motions of obtaining consent – prior to collecting personal information. I contend that adequate informational privacy requires a rich background of informational norms.

Informational norms are social norms that constrain the collection, use, and distribution of personal information. Under ideal conditions, norm-governed exchanges not only implement acceptable tradeoffs between informational privacy and competing goals, they also ensure consumers give free and informed consent to those tradeoffs. The restriction to ideal conditions does not deprive the point of interest; rather, it shows that the interest is normative, not empirical. The ideal conditions are a goal we should strive to approximate in practice. Unfortunately current practice fails to adequately approximate this ideal in significant cases. Lack of norms is one important reason. The rapid advance in information processing technology has outstripped the relatively slow evolution of social norms in a wide range of important cases.

Keywords: privacy, informational privacy, personal information, technology, data collection

Palestra do Prof. Luciano Timm na PUC/Minas

Índice de Confiança no Judiciário

Não vi ainda o resultado do quarto trimestre de 2009, mas espero que o ICJ esteja sendo calculado ainda.

Plágio

Eu me pergunto o que a Justiça acha do plágio. Há casos e casos de plágio – incluindo até casos no Direito (!) – e a internet tem ajudado a divulgar vários. Este aqui, por exemplo, foi devidamente tratado sem o uso da Justiça (custos de transação baixos).

Talvez a pergunta devesse ser: a Justiça brasileira é mais leniente com o plágio do que suas congêneres em outros países? A área de estudos em análise econômico que analisa plágio, creio, é esta.