Alex Vincent
06/03/2011
After the outrage, coming proposals. Stéphane Hessel, the old man who has managed to ignite the French literary market Indignaos! said he hoped to achieve its popular booklet encouraging the reader to "take back their destiny", devising alternatives to road maps drawn by their rulers. The first solution came in the hands of four prestigious French academic, arising from different theoretical horizons but with a common desire: to show that, as far as policy economic concerns, another world is still possible. The imagination to power against neoliberal fatalism.
More than shocked, terrified, economists say the solutions that European governments have found so far. "The crisis has not undermined the dominance of the thinking patterns that guide economic policy for 30 years", states in its manifesto terrified economists, who now publishes in Spain the editorial Barataria.
internet seed
Last fall, hung the show on the Internet. Within weeks, they signed more than 3,000 people, mainly arising from university, who joined the four authors, Philippe Askenazy, Thomas Coutrot, André and Henri Orléan Sterdyniak. The unprecedented interest in text suitable for all audiences, but technical and expert profile " at his side, Stéphane Hessel has a poetic air," he said sarcastically Libération prompted them to publish the proposals and truffled diagnosis distribution at bookstores across the country at a reduced price, following a strategy similar to that of his illustrious predecessor.
In 50 pages, economists terrified walk ten " false evidence" derived from the solutions of neoliberalism The authors define as a political and not economic doctrine, always "in the service of private interests." "European governments, either through blindness or cynicism, are quick to take the extreme neoliberal measures before citizens are just convinced of his absolute failure and decide to rebel against them," says Philippe Askenazy. Opposing
many received ideas, the report shows that financial markets do not regulate themselves, as we have been led to believe the supporters of neoliberal dogma. For authors, the market is not always favorable to economic growth, or act as a good judge about the solvency of the states, much as they point rating agencies. Among the solutions proposed rigidly regular markets and the activities of its players, banning speculation in order to avoid bubbles and cracks and create a public agency credit and moderate compensation of traders .
antisocial lies
The insistent chorus on fiscal restraint as the only lifeline to the brink of bankruptcy does not really convince the authors: the benefits are severely amputated, while the unemployment and job insecurity are installed on the horizon . As alternatives, maintenance quote of social coverage through a highly redistributive tax model, with the creation of new taxes for the wealthy.
"Governments say they have no room to maneuver and point indirectly to the international institutions responsible for cutting plans," analyzes Askenazy. "What is hidden from us is that not all organizations dictate the same. The ILO, for example, an analysis opposite to the OECD . The problem is that it has no power." Indeed, the manifesto calls into question the role of the EU and calls for efforts towards federalism. "Europe risks a return to the situation of the sixties, with a couple of other countries and most underdeveloped countries, including Spain, "says the author.
The skeptical reader question or compliant is that, with savings plans in place in half of Europe, it may be late to rebel. " never is. The people will decide at the polls "answers Askenazy. And in countries where neither the right nor the left would like to present alternatives to neoliberalism?" Our goal is to demonstrate that this is not the only legitimate solution and to push for a match dare to take another path, "said Askenazy, with next year's French presidential elections in sight, which aims to convince the Socialist Party. In Spain, he acknowledges, is "a little more difficult."
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