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 "The lesson is that the financial world cannot behave responsibly, if left to its own devices and thus should not be left to its own devices;"

  Please see: Jacques Généreux,

 Économie politique (3 vol.)
Coll. Les Fondamentaux, Hachette.

  • Économie politique. 1. Introduction à l'analyse économique. 4e éd., 2004.
  • Économie politique. 2. Microéconomie. 4e ed., 2004.
  • Économie politique. 3. Macroéconomie. 4e ed., 2004.

Introduction à l'économie
Coll. Points-économie, Seuil, 3e éd., 2001.

Introduction à la politique économique
Coll. Points-économie, Seuil, 3e éd., 1999.

Chiffres clés de l'économie mondiale
Coll. Points-économie, Seuil, 1993.

Chiffres clés de l'économie française
Coll. Points-économie, Seuil, 1993.

Droite, Gauche, Droite
Plon, 1995, épuisé.

L'économie politique. Analyse économique des choix publics et de la vie politique
Larousse, 1996, épuisé.

Les politiques économiques
Coll. Mémo, Seuil, 1996.

Une raison d'espérer. L'horreur n'est pas économique, elle est politique
Plon, 1997, Pocket, 2000, épuisé.

Les Vraies Lois de l'économie, tome 1
Seuil-France Culture, 2001.

Les Vraies Lois de l'économie, tome 2
Seuil-France Culture, 2002.

Quel Renouveau socialiste?
Entretien avec Philippe Petit, coll. Conversations pour demain, Textuel, 2003.

Chroniques d'un autre monde
Seuil, 2003.

Manuel critique du parfait Européen. Les bonnes raisons de dire "non" à la Constitution
Seuil, mars 2005.

  --- passim.

  Briefly, the "financial world" is always under the more-or-less competent (these days, it's the obscenely incompetent) control of the politico-economic élite.  Therefore, what you urge constitutes a nonsense, non sequitur, a thing outside the realm of human possibility at this point (there being, as yet, no such thing as a meaningfully functioning "democratically-run" society).

   The markets are in turmoil, yes.  But it isn't because they've been "left to their own devices."  It's because, rather, they're under the control of the class of director-managers which always runs them---and that happens to have been doing a supremely stupid and inept job of it for since Reagan's and Thatcher's reign.

  A "débat" including Jacques Généreux ran in the pages of Libération in the past two weeks; don't recall the exact date.  Try his books. A healthy tonic for the prevailing idiocy.

"In such an environment it is not surprising that the ills of technology should seem curable only through the application of more technology..." John W Aldridge

by proximity1 on Wed Oct 1st, 2008 at 01:11:03 PM EST
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A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Oct 1st, 2008 at 01:19:51 PM EST
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