Tag: ideas
“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…
the risk of a poisoned gift
HASAs France prepares to host, this summer, the most important sporting event organized on its territory in recent decades, the very probable attribution of the 2030 Winter Olympics to the…
“The dividends of peace mirroring the costs of war are immense”
Lbreakthrough of the far right on the Israeli side and the end of the Mahmoud era Abbas on the Palestinian side were harbingers of political, security and economic perils. Decades…
“Jacques Delors leaves France and Europe a precious legacy”
She demanding conception of politics, his visionary and pragmatic European work, his method of negotiation, his social commitment and his economic realism, his attention to youth, his human qualities deserve…
“To fight against the harmful effects of loneliness on public health, let’s create a French Federation for Social Bonds”
NOTe, a collective of committed actors, share a deep conviction: social isolation represents a silent enemy with alarming consequences in terms of public health and social cohesion. The current figures…
“France will never be able to compete with the low-wage countries of the Old Continent”
“Build your dreams” (“build your dreams”), promises the Chinese manufacturer BYD. Those from France, who hoped to see BYD build its first European factory for the production of electric cars…
“Transparency on social and environmental information encourages companies to carry out strategic thinking in the service of their sustainability”
Lin France was, the December 6, 2023, the first country in the European Union to transpose into its national law the new European directive (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, or CSRD)…
For the city of Paris, a budgetary equation fraught with uncertainties
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, in Paris, December 6, 2023. STEPHANIE LECOCQ / REUTERS Si, Monday December 11, 2023, the Paris council voted, without suspense, its 2024 budget for…
“Immigration law is narrow, flawed and economically dangerous”
VSPublic debate on immigration in France has long focused on security and identity issues. When the economy is discussed, it is always in reaction to an electoralist and populist agenda:…