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France Has an Interventionist State — But It’s Intervening to Serve Capital

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Lecture Global/Intercultural

Mon, Nov 6, 2023

4:30 PM – 6 PM EST (GMT-5)

Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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In today's France, environmental activists, "yellow vests," feminists, associations and citizens are looking for solutions outside government rather than transforming government and public action itself. In this book, Anna-Laure Delatte collects original data from the Treasury and Banque de France since 1949 to document the transformation of public action over 70 years. In short, a key driver of public spending and monetary action today is support for business. This may explain the loss of citizens confidence in government. It also reveals the inability of contemporary public action to cope with climate change and transform the economic framework into a sustainable regime that respects our planet and into one better adapted to the changes already underway in our societies.

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Anne-Laure Delatte

Anne-Laure Delatte has been Cepii's scientific advisor since October 2019.

She is a research fellow at the CNRS and a member of the network of European macroeconomists CEPR (Center for Economic and Policy Research). She was a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Économique from 2017 to 2019 and is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Banque de France Foundation.

She was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University between 2014 and 2017. Prior to that, she was an associate at the OFCE and a professor at Rouen Business School. She started her academic career in Hong Kong as a lecturer at HKUST between 2006 and 2008.

Her research focuses on financial economics and international macroeconomics with an empirical approach, applied to several areas: euro crisis, international banking flows, tax havens, exchange rates, forex reserves in emerging countries, commodity prices...

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