La semaine dernière, une foule violente a mené une attaque en règle contre le Capitole, siège de la démocratie américaine. Une foule mobilisée sur la fausse croyance que l’élection présidentielle avait été volée. Le principal auteur de cette affirmation est le président Donald Trump. Mais cette foule montant à l‘assaut
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La pandémie est une aubaine pour ceux qui veulent gagner des millions. Le 9 novembre dernier, alors que Pfizer annonçait « une efficacité à 90% » de son vaccin en expérimentation, son patron Albert Bourla vendait pour 5,6 millions de dollars d’actions du laboratoire américain. Ce jour-là l’action avait gagné
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Economic decisions, whether individual or collective, must be based on an analysis of the costs and risks associated with each policy. Without accurate analysis, there is a risk that the feelings of a minority will dictate the decisions made for the majority. Public policies generally differentiate between
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L’Article 1 du Décret du 1er septembre 2020 instituant un haut-commissaire au plan parle clairement d’une : « réflexion prospective » et notamment « au regard des enjeux […] culturels ». Mais son premier défi à relever ne serait-il pas celui d’une réhabilitation de l’utopie ? Sans forcément adhérer sans
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Employees and employers are divorced, managerial thinking has ground to a halt, trillions in mergers have vanished into thin air, and state missions such as research, education, health and safety have become financialized. People are sick of working as they're told, according to protocols and no longer according to their craft. One of the consequences:
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Le succès des livres traditionnels ne se dément pas ; les bons livres en vrai papier, qui sentent bon l’encre quand on les ouvre pour la première fois, ces livres font un carton ! On pensait qu’ils allaient disparaître ensevelis par la vague du numérique. Que nenni ! les livres ne se sont
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Au printemps dernier, alors que des pays du monde entier mettaient en place des ordonnances de confinement afin d’aplatir la courbe de contagion du coronavirus, nous avons pu constater en temps réel à quel point nos systèmes de transport et de distribution sont imbriqués. Il était stupéfiant de voir à
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Finally some good news on the climate front. And some very bad news for America's big oil companies and their chief supporter, Donald Trump. Three highly controversial oil and gas pipeline projects have just been halted for environmental reasons. The environmentalists are thrilled, as are the
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The trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) is the largest trade treaty ever negotiated. Signed a year ago, the ratification of this nearly €17 trillion agreement could fail because of Brazil's environmental and human abuses of
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The fourth industrial revolution is here. Since the arrival of digital tools in the workplace, the transformation of companies is unprecedented. Abolishing borders, reducing distances and speeding up time, digital technology has destabilized the entire organization of work. Moreover, when we know that the new generations aspire to a
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After the collective shock of the coronavirus epidemic, nothing can be the same anymore. The living reality imposes itself on us. Planetary and ecological logics force us to review our ways of innovating, exchanging and investing. We must reconsider our projects. So, can this health crisis we have just gone through change the way we live?
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Do large office towers still have a future? The explosion of telework with the pandemic is giving ideas to companies who see it as a source of savings, even if it means changing the world of work in depth. Since the beginning of containment, business districts have emptied out, leaving
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What's a life worth? The question has been on the minds of philosophers, but it is also a debate that has been stirring economists for decades, and which is being revived by the prospect of deconfinement, synonymous with the trade-off between deadly risk and economic or social devastation. Questioned on May 6, as the pandemic
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The health crisis is reopening the debate about a living wage or an unconditional allowance. The ministers of the Portuguese, Spanish and Italian governments are calling for the creation of a European minimum income system and for solidarity to minimise the consequences of the health crisis. According to the three countries, the EU needs
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The latest data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market reveals its devastating effects on workers in the informal economy and hundreds of millions of enterprises around the world. As job losses intensify, almost half of the workers in the informal economy are unemployed.
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"Nothing will ever be the same again. " This sentence, it's been resonating on the web for the past few weeks. With containment, a tidal wave of questions about tomorrow's world is surging across our screens. And the future of work occupies a central place in this questioning (e.g. here and there). In fact, this
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In order to support businesses in the face of the crisis caused by the coronavirus epidemic, the French government has announced a number of measures. Innovative companies believe that the measures are a step in the right direction but that the recovery will have to be thought through over the long term, according to a study by the Committee.
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In addition to the health risks it poses to everyone, the Covid-19 pandemic is causing a partial or total loss of income for many. The French Movement for a Basic Income (MFRB) considers it more necessary than ever to establish a sustainable universal income. This is what Spain has just done:
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The scale and speed of the Covid 19 disaster must force us to rethink our societies. As after every disruptive event, our social fundamentals, our value systems and our production methods are being profoundly questioned. Today, this health crisis must
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At the time of Covid-19, 76% of the French teleworkers already miss their offices! Since March 12 when the President of the French Republic announced the closure of schools, nurseries and higher education establishments, the French and their families have been living in confinement. A situation that brings to light some
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