Conflict Between Efficiency and Sense of

Summary of discrepancy between efficiency and the meaning of "Ludus": Efficiency is a very important virtue, especially in contemporary technology society. It seems to be opposed to the sensation of Rudos (game) highly appreciated Brazilian culture. Is this conflict true? Is this a clear obstacle to modernization? In this paper we will discuss this obvious value contradiction and try to find a way to harmoniously integrate. Efficiency appears as the culture shifts to modernization.

Many economic issues involve conflicts between efficiency and fairness. For example, economists generally think that free trade benefits efficiency based on the principle of comparative advantage. In this case, efficiency means an increase in total production (ie, strengthening economic power). But free trade also means that cheaper imports eliminate cost-effective domestic industry. Economic revenues outweigh the losses of less competitive industries, but these benefits are mainly derived from efficient domestic industries.

There are often inconsistencies between different types of efficiencies. For example, the development of new technologies can increase the efficiency of enterprise operations and can be very large. However, this growth can reduce the number of companies, which in turn can affect the structure and competition of the industry, which in turn can reduce price efficiency. Regardless of whether the goods are transferred from the farm to the final market regardless of whether the goods are transferred by farmers, brokers, cooperatives, marketing committees, wholesalers, retailers, or exporters, marketing expenses occur I will. As urbanization and industrialization increase, marketing costs tend to increase compared to farm prices farmers receive. That is, the product moves more distances through more brokers and packaging becomes more complicated.

After Samuel Haber, Donald Stabile claims that engineers faced a contradiction between physical efficiency and cost efficiency in a new US enterprise capitalist company in the late nineteenth century. . As aware of the market demand, non-technical managers who are conscious of the profit of the company the engineers are working on often imposes restrictions on the projects the engineer wants to undertake. The price of all inputs varies according to market forces, hampering engineers' careful calculation. Therefore, the engineer loses management of the project and it is necessary to always correct the plan. In order to manage the project, engineers have to manage these external variables and attempt to convert them to constants.