Tag: ideas
“Cinema is one of the places where rape culture is produced”
Lhe #metoo mobilization happened because America believed the women who spoke to journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, authors of an investigation into Harvey Weinstein in the New York Times.…
Democracy, issue of the American election of November 2024
TThree years later, the trauma of the assault on the Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump on January 6, 2021, continues to mark the political landscape and weighs on the…
“A massive rebalancing of public infrastructure towards small and medium-sized towns must be undertaken”
LHousing policies combine negative results: the cost of housing has increased from 20% to more than 30% income of the majority of tenants and first-time buyers, while waiting times for…
“It is through the transformation of the State and currency that we could save ourselves from capitalism and its deadly logic”
Lhe recent inauguration of libertarian Javier Milei as president of Argentina is one of the political monstrosities that the polycrisis world will likely continue to give birth to. However, the…
“No fight against climate change without freedom to act for local elected officials”
Sf the fate of the climate will depend on our overall efforts on a global scale, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is also a local battle. We also do not appreciate…
Automobile: a shaken global hierarchy
En 2023, the Japanese group Toyota retained the lead in the world ranking of automobile manufacturers, with nearly ten million cars sold. The information, which once would have made the…
Pascal Praud and you – Reshuffle: Louis de Raguenel gives ideas on the calendar of the next appointments
Gauthier Delomez 12:40 p.m., January 5, 2024 The ministerial reshuffle is long overdue, while rumors of this or that appointment are heard here and there. Louis de Raguenel, head of…
“Education and academic guidance appear to be the main keys to accelerating productivity”
LFrance is no longer the good student of productivity: in the third quarter of 2023, it was 3.9% lower than its level at the end of 2019. The situation is…
“Government and private sector are allies in financing R&D, not enemies”
Lhe productivity of our economy is the most important determinant of our standard of living. How to increase it? What respective roles should the private sector and the government play…
“The most compelling explanation for the decline in productivity is that institutions are not adapting quickly enough to technological revolutions”
VSHow can we explain the apparent lack of effect of the revolutions in information and communication technologies, and more recently artificial intelligence (AI), on productivity growth in developed countries? Particularly…
“To stop only at the contribution of technologies to measure labor productivity is an error of assessment”
LThe American economist Robert Solow, who died on December 21, 2023, noted, in his seminal work, that the contributions of capital and labor to growth, as measured, were weak and…
inventions have less economic effect than in the past”
BMany young adults in the West feel unease, due in part to climate change, but also to the slowdown in economic growth over the past two decades. Indeed, each generation…