David Cameron e o fantasma de Bentham

A propósito do meu artigo na Atlântico deste mês, e para que não se julgue que o meu cepticismo relativamente à actual liderança dos tories é exagerado, esta elucidativa notícia vem mesmo a calhar: Tories move away from Thatcherism

Britain’s main opposition Conservative Party has symbolically elected to sever all overt links with Thatchernomics and the West’s formulaic politics of wealth creation, with its fresh-faced new young leader David Cameron declaring General Well Being (GWB) rather than Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to be the right measure of a country’s prosperity.

Cameron’s insistence on well-being rather than wealth indices on Monday borrows an idea long propounded by Bhutan’s Jigme Singye Wangchuk, who junked Gross National Product (GNP) for Gross National Happiness (GNH) soon after he came to the throne a quarter-century ago.

Resta a longínqua esperança de que, se o poder cair nas mãos de David Cameron, não se confirmem as piores expectativas para que todas estas sinistras declarações apontam.

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