El valor de la lentitud y la experiencia en el futuro del trabajo: claves para el bienestar.

Autor del best seller "Elogio de la lentitud" y de "Elogio de la experiencia". Referente mundial del movimiento slow.

La UCEMA tiene el placer y privilegio de recibir a Carl Honoré para un encuentro en vivo a cargo del Director del Posgrado en Recursos Humanos, Fernando Troilo.

Some elements become obsolete, as happened with the razor blade or with the video tape player. Some other businesses also become unnecessary, for example a cybercafé and nowadays even fixed landline phones. The same happens with some institutions that seem to become outdated, and lose their meaning with the passing of time, as happened with the organism in charge of controlling commerce between Spain and its American colonies during the reign of the Habsburgs first and then of the Bourbons.

A careful scientific and human preparation of educators is a key factor for an attractive school. No one transmits enthusiasm for something that does not inspire them. Lucid attention to the psychological, emotional and intellectual needs of each student is the basis for the relation of trust enables learning.

It is time to strengthen the quality and social inclusion of our schools. In this seminar Dr. Guadagni will explore and present different proposals to get closer to fulfilling these objectives.

We have been capable of the improbable: multiplying the number of poor by fifteen in half a century. The assistance-based models failed. Harmful aid has prevailed and the results are visible: 134,825 have died due to child malnutrition during the last seven decades, 70% of the children under 17 years of age live in marginalization and only 50% of the students complete high school. The cemetery is full of people who waited for a progress that never arrived. Meanwhile, in the world, the immense majority of countries have achieved unprecedented prosperity.

"Better education offers a hope of narrowing the gap between the most and least skilled workers, of defending against the prospect of a society divided between the rich and the poor, of a class society in which an educated elite supports a permanent class of unemployed" Milton Friedman, 1998. For many years now that education in Argentina is my obsession. The quote explains why. I would dare to add that a better education offers the hope of having a country less similar to today´s Argentina.

The liberal period in Guatemala was the historical moment in which Guatemala underwent a profound change, completely leaving colonial mentality, to insert itself in the modern world. The background and explanation of the principal changes that took place will be discussed. The talk will address the thesis of the liberal thinker Armando Ribas who in one of his works postulates the question of whether the West represents a moral program to be followed.

This book attempts to trace the roots of Argentine economic thought, ideas that in many cases arise with scientific revolutions and counterrevolutions originated in Europe, then imported to our lands. Historians and economists from different public and private universities of the country were summoned for the task, knowledgeable about the different schools or traditions of thought, who detailed the way in which the ideas penetrated Argentina and then developed and evolved.