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"Pro-Nupes Economists Do Not Represent 'Science'"

2022-06-15T19:15:21.057Z


TRIBUNE - It is not correct to use one's academic status to disguise LFI activism as a scientific approach, and thus impress and intimidate public opinion, argue the authors*.


Several dozen economists published a column in the

JDD

entitled

“We support the economic program of Nupes in the legislative elections.”

They call for a

“break with neoliberalism”

.

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  • Find all the results of the legislative elections

Their first mistake is to suggest that Macron's policy was inspired by "neoliberalism".

This is complacently forgetting that our country is located in the firmament of welfare states, with 59% of GDP in public expenditure and 47% of GDP in compulsory levies.

Crushing taxes, abysmal public debt, the presence of the state in all directions: no developed nation in the world practices a more centralizing policy, more intrusive in the private life of individuals, more despoiling, more opposed to free individual initiative.

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The second error of the signatories is to ignore the foundations of economic science by daring to support a project with which the disastrous common program of government of the PS and the PCF of the 1970s can pass for moderate.

He…

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Source: lefigaro

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