Publishing today a book that praises "moral liberalism" as the coronavirus pandemic has forced the government to increase state aid and public spending "whatever the cost", can obviously seem paradoxical.
But Bernard Esambert who, at the height of his 86 years, led the publication of
Ethics and economy: how to save liberalism
(Les Ozalids d'Humensis) does not dwell on this type of contradiction.
No blissful praise in his enterprise.
No, in a salutary approach, even if it may seem utopian and still vague, Esambert hopes to ensure that liberalism - which has
"enabled two-thirds of humanity to emerge from poverty for half a century" -
can extend its virtues while limiting its faults and excesses.
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Some may be surprised that the man whose name remains forever attached to the
"Republic of Engineers"
dear to Georges Pompidou - and in which he was the armed wing of a French industrial policy.
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