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Work, Time and Money

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Reading guide · economics · September 2026 A series of essays on work, time and money, most of them about Portugal. It started with a question Keynes asked in 1930, whether a richer world would work less, and followed where the answers led: to wages and profits, the State’s accounts, pensions, schooling, firms, housing, children, emigration and immigration, and what growth is for. This page lists them in a reading order, with a line on each.
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The Fifteen-Hour Week

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Essay · economics · September 2026 In 1930 Keynes predicted that within a century the rich countries would be four to eight times richer and would work fifteen hours a week. The first half came true with seven years to spare. The second did not come close, and the machines he feared would cause mass unemployment never did. Ninety-four years of data on output, hours, pay and jobs show where the productivity went: mostly into income rather than time, none of it into idleness, and since 1980, in America above all, a large part of it to the people at the top. Nobody chose that split; it was made for them. This first part follows the hours; the second, Where the Hours Went , follows the income.
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Novos Desafios

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(Kilimanjaro - Africa) "Why? Because it is there!" - George L. Mallory Note: "Most people think the famous climbing phrase "because it is there" was first uttered by Edmund Hillary when he and Tenzing Norgay conquered Mount Everest in 1953. Not so. Actually George Leigh Mallory, three decades earlier, said it as he prepared to scale the world's highest peak." "People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things." - Edmund Hillary OK, Rei morto, rei posto. CV desportivo - Todas as Ultras CV desportivo - Todas as provas Terminada a saga do Andorra Ultra Trail - Ronda dels Cims 2019 - 170 Km & 13.500 m D+, e depois de já ter completado 6 provas na mítica distância das 100 milhas, é chegada a altura de começar a traçar novos objetivos, ainda mais ambiciosos: duplicar para as 200 milhas. Estou tentado a voltar a concorrer a uma vaga n...
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EMUM - Eco Madeira Ultra Maratona 2016

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The Warning Shot

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The Duty to Work

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Essay · society · September 2026 For most of recorded history, work was what the lower orders did so that others need not. The idea that a job should be the centre of a life, the source of who we are, what we are worth and what it all means, is a few centuries old, and it did not spread by itself. It was preached, legislated, schooled and enforced, in Portugal until 1976 by the police. The evidence says it serves employers better than it serves the people who hold it.
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Maratona do Porto 2018

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The Ancestors Who Left Nothing

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ITRA Performance Index - Everything You Always Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask

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