L'ambition de l'Europe sociale, malgré les discours, est en voie de redéfinition, pour mieux satisfaire des critères d'efficacité et d'adaptation à la mondialisation. Cet article montre que le programme consensuel qui émerge des conférences européennes, même s'il tente de prendre aussi...

In this paper, we try to point out some important weaknesses of the contemporary French social-economic model, focusing on relevant elements of comparison with Nordic countries. In doing so, we rely on the idea that large and small countries differ in terms of growth and governance strategies....

Introduction à "Jean-Marcel Jeanneney à l'OFCE - Fondations et contributions (1981-1989)", Revue de l'OFCE, 2011.

Dans la foulée du Rapport Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi, nous proposons ici de nouvelles réflexions sur le progrès social et le bien-être, qui annoncent de nouveaux travaux et de nouvelles avancées. À partir de quelques exemples simples empruntés à l'actualité, nous montrons d'abord comment...

The reversal in the trend of productivity growth between the US and the UK on one side, and the main countries of continental Europe on the other, appears with great evidence from the data. The current debate focuses on differences in labour market performance, which should account for the...

Jean-Marcel Jeanneney était un économiste rare, à la fois théoricien, empiriste et praticien. C’est son aventure à la tête de l’OFCE que ce livre raconte, ou plutôt qu’il laisse l’auteur lui-même conter au travers d’articles écrits depuis le premier jour de son premier mandat...

The two recent macroeconomic shocks that hit the world economy - the surge of oil and food prices and the subprime crisis – have revived the attention of policy makers and economists on the consequences of shocks, symmetric and asymmetric, and on the appropriateness of the EMU institutional...

This paper reviews the arguments for and against the ‘Stability and Growth Pact’ signed by the countries of the Euro area. We find the theoretical debate to be inconclusive, as both externality and credibility arguments can be used to yield opposite, and equally plausible conclusions. We...

This paper argues that the European Union has gone farther than any other country or institution in internalizing the prescriptions of the Washington Consensus. Embedding neo-liberal principles in the treaties defining its governance, the EU has enshrined a peculiar doctrine within its...

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