In the debate on the pension reform from which France is emerging exhausted, there has clearly been a lack of voices from balanced economists, credible in the eyes of all and capable of putting the changes brought about by the text into perspective.
In the media, it is mainly firm opponents of the reform such as Michael Zemmour, teacher at the Sorbonne and Sciences Po, who have expressed themselves.
To the credit of others, associating with such a sensitive bill required a small dose of sacrificial spirit…
Beyond the epidermal side of any reform affecting pensions, this episode underlines above all in hollow the French weakness in the evaluation of public policies, an area nevertheless essential to the construction of the democratic debate.
“The French economic institutes are much smaller than their foreign counterparts,
advances Xavier Ragot, the president of the French Observatory of Economic Conditions (OFCE) which is housed at Sciences Po.
For example, at the OFCE, we…
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