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What if economists were about to change?

Let’s celebrate. The American Economic Association (AEA), the main professional organisation for economists in the United States, has just awarded the Clark Medal to Gabriel Zucman for his work on the concentration of wealth and tax evasion. Awarded each year to a winner under the age of 40, the distinction is given in particular for innovative work demonstrating the considerable importance of tax evasion by the richest, including in Scandinavian countries, which are often considered...

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Can we trust constitutional judges?

As the ‘wise men’ of the Constitutional Council prepare to give their decision on pensions, it is worth asking a simple question. In general, can we trust constitutional judges? Let us be clear: constitutional courts play an absolutely indispensable role in all countries. Unfortunately, like all powers, these precious and fragile institutions are sometimes instrumentalised and damaged by the people to whom these eminent functions have been entrusted, who often try to impose their own...

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Macron, the social and economic mess

Let’s say it straight away: Macron is in the wrong era and is wasting our time. He is applying recipes that are completely unsuited to the world of the 2020s, as if he had remained intellectually stuck in the era of the market euphoria of the 1990s and early 2000s, the world before the 2008 crisis, Covid and Ukraine. Yet the current context is one of rising inequality, hyper-prosperity of wealth and the climate and energy crisis. The urgent need is for investment in education and health...

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Debate entre Alain Badiou y el economista Thomas Piketty

En el presente video, se presenta un breve debate entre el filosofo Alain Badiou y el economista frances Thomas Piketty. En el debate se presentan toda una serie de argumentos por parte de Badiou a traves de los cuales busca profundizar en la idea propuesta por Piketty, y es el mismo Piketty quien personalmente responde a las observaciones del filosofo. Para Badiou comprender lo que es vivir, es fundamental para el desarrollo de las sociedades. Y , es evidente que la propuesta de Piketty...

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Emerging from the pension crisis

February 2023 may go down in history as the month when India became more populous than China, whose population is expected to be around 700 million by 2100 according to the United Nations, close to Europe. We could also focus on the earthquake that has just hit Turkey and Syria, in a region devastated by wars and oil interests, or on the consequences of global warming in Pakistan or the Sahel, or on the glaring inadequacies of sanctions against Russian oligarchs and support for Ukraine....

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On termine Thomas Piketty (Avec Xavier Delmas)

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