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The economic hackers, a book anti hypo..crise?




by Christophe » 22/06/09, 11:08

Found on Libé: http://www.liberation.fr/livres/0101575 ... e-baratins

The crisis would contribute to the economic anti hypocris (i) e?

The crisis, revealing churns

The exercise is a bit easy. But it is still as pleasing. Easy, because after the global financial crisis triggered in September by the bankruptcy of the subprime mortgage system in the United States, a certain number of “economic shambles” came to light. Delightful, because economists, and even more the policies which relay their theories, are all the more peremptory in their assertions as their scientific foundations are fragile.

Work more. Hervé Nathan, who was a journalist in the Liberation Politics service, before joining, in 2006, the weekly Marianne, did not resist the pleasure of demonstrating it. He identified, along with his colleague Nicolas Prissette, from the Journal du dimanche, twelve statements asserted as obvious and undertook to dismantle them one by one.

The first is the famous "work more to earn more", which the economic crisis has made, in a few months, obsolete. Flagship measure of the Tepa law of August 2007, the reduction of payroll taxes for overtime had no impact either on the purchasing power of the working masses or on the cost of labor. When order books dry up, overtime becomes scarce. Another first-rate economic sham: in early 2005 Jean-Louis Borloo, then Minister of Social Affairs, trumpeted that personal services will create 500 jobs. But he fails to clarify that these are not full-time jobs. In this sector, the volume of activity per employee is much closer to 000 hours than to 8 hours per week. Three years later, not only the number of jobs created is not 35, but 500, but above all, they represent only 000 full-time equivalents, which is about what the French economy sees. disappear every month since the beginning of this year.

Biofuel. Economic lewdness sometimes gives rise to surreal staging. Like this demonstration of the benefits of bioethanol attempted on October 9, 2006 by Thierry Breton. In front of the television cameras, the Minister of Economy and Finance at the time played pump attendants in a Total station requisitioned for the occasion, Porte d'Orléans in Paris. It fills the fuel tank of its Renault Mégane with a new fuel called E 85. A week later, LeCanard chained revealed that the said pump was not connected to any tank. As for the E 85, we no longer hear about it. Explanation: the studies commissioned to justify the launch of this miracle and ecological fuel have shown that it was necessary to consume more oil to produce bioethanol than it saved. Its economic interest, apart from selling a possible overproduction, is therefore for the moment very relative. And it is anything but ecological.

Slush fund. In a different genre, the Survey of Employers is also a journalist's book. It is written by Guillaume Delacroix who, for four years, has been monitoring employer news on a daily basis Les Echos. At the forefront, he looks back on the different episodes of the conflict which opposed Medef to its federation of metallurgy, the UIMM, from September 2007 until the end of 2008. A detailed account restoring the deleterious climate which weighed during more d 'one year on employers' organizations. And who recalls that behind the great principles of free enterprise defended by each other, there was also a slush fund of 600 million euros.

For those interested in Medef, UIMM and other CGPMEs, the editions of La Découverte have just published a Sociology of employers' organizations which offers a very complete overview of this often poorly understood environment. Written by Michel Oberlé, professor at the École normale supérieure, it can avoid falling into simplistic clichés when we talk about employers.

Economic Bobards Hervé Nathan and Nicolas Prissette, Hachette literatures, 203 pages, 15,90 euros. Survey on employers Guillaume Delacroix Editions Plon, 358 pages, 21,90 euros. Sociology of employers' organizations, Michel Offerlé, La Découverte, coll. "Benchmarks", 124 pages, 9,50 euros.
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by bain2jasmin » 22/06/09, 13:22

your question contains the answer so why open a door already open? unless you want to underline a suptility that the specialists of the world crisis have not underlined but all the analysis of this hypocrisy is already made in the last books published between 2008 and 2009 in the fields: of finance, sociology, geopolitics etc ... especially at odile jacob you will notice who becomes a spokesperson for the edition of controversial book well thinking simultaneously eh eh eh çà makes me laugh at the opportunists of the current world crisis ...
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