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Au moment où se discute le monde d’après, c’est surtout au monde de maintenant auquel nous sommes confrontés. Les chercheur.se.s aussi sont durement éprouvés, certain.e.s touché.e.s au plus près. L'activité de notre laboratoire est en grande partie suspendue et les mois perdus ont un impact important, particulièrement pour les doctorant.e.s. Pour les précaires, la situation est également très inquiétante. Notre activité de recherche apparaît dérisoire dans ce contexte. Néanmoins, les travaux qui sont menés au CEPN, du fait de leur originalité et de leur audience, contribuent à l’analyse des multiples crises que nous traversons et nourrissent le débat citoyen.
Philippe Batifoulier, directeur du CEPN
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En raison du coronavirus, et conformément aux consignes gouvernementales, les séminaires, soutenances, colloques et autres événements scientifiques en présentiel sont suspendus jusqu’à nouvel ordre. Ainsi, et compte tenu des perturbations des activités scientifiques, le format de la newsletter du CEPN se trouve être bousculé. Ci-après, vous retrouverez néanmoins l’actualité du laboratoire des dernières semaines. Nombreu.x.ses. sont les membres du CEPN à participer au débat en cette période de crise sanitaire. Ces contributions médiatiques rencontrent une belle audience (sur Twitter notamment) et sont relayées par le CNRS. En voici une sélection, retrouvez les autres sur l'espace médias.
Press review I Revue de presse
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Finances et monnaies
- Sébastien Charles, Thomas Dallery & Jonathan Marie
- Marie Carpenter & Mustafa Erdem Sakinç
- Jeffrey Althouse, Cédric Durand, Dany Lang, Jonathan Marie, Devrim Yilmaz
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Ecologie
- Cédric Durand & Razmig Keucheyan
> L’heure de la planification écologique
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Politiques publiques
- Philippe Batifoulier, Nicolas Da Silva & Mehrdad Vahabi
- Mounir Amdaour, Giuseppe Arcuri & Nadine Levratto
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The INFER Annual Conference is the main annual event of the International Network for Economic Research. New dates of the INFERAC 2020 are 14-16 December 2020.
The call for papers is launched, please find more info about it here.
>> New deadline | September 15th 2020 |
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How Israel avoided hyperinflation. The success of its 1985 stabilization plan in the light of post-Keynesian theory by Sébastien Charles & Jonathan Marie
This article uses a post-Keynesian framework to analyse the inflationary process at work from 1948 until the 1980s in an attempt to understand the origins of the near-hyperinflation of the first semester 1985 and the success of the stabilization plan introduced that same summer. In 1985 the shekel seems to have been entirely abandoned by its users for the U.S. dollar, which, in the context of high inflation of the time should have caused hyperinflation. Such an outcome results from the conjunction of several factors: the historic virulence of the distribution conflict, the presence of indexation mechanisms, and the fragility of the balance of payments marked by a structural current deficit. The stabilization plan, supported by substantial U.S. financial aid, immediately attenuated the external financing constraint and lastingly eased the distribution conflict, thereby averting the hyperinflationary risks. Analysis of this historical trajectory confirms the theoretical coherence of the post-Keynesian analysis of hyperinflation.
>> Read the article here
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How Communicative Performances Can Constitute an Organization's Self by Fabien Hildwein
The creation of an organization's self is the attribution of a collective will and agency to a group of individuals, thereby constituting them into an organization able to interact with its peers. As such, the organization's self represents a central issue for collective action, as studied through the prism of the "communicative constitution of organizing" (CCO). Performances, as communicative and spectacular events during which a collectivity presents its self and displays a given message, represent a little-studied opportunity to understand the constitution of the organization's self, and to explore the links between the organization's self and the selves of its members. The empirical part of this study analyses the French feminist activist group, La Barbe, which uses innovative performances to denounce the absence of women at the top of organizations. The paper's contribution is twofold: the analysis presents how visual and symbolic performances can help to constitute an organization's self, notably through what performances produce for the organization: visibility, coordination and mobilization. Second, it shows the impact of performances on those who execute them, which retroactively has important organizational effects by ensuring their engagement in the organization.
>> Read the future article here
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Les fablabs, ateliers au coeur de la ville : les spécificités des lieux d'Afrique francophone par Isabelle Liotard
>> A lire ici
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Is there scientific progress in macroeconomics?
The case of the NAIRU by Dany Lang, Mark Setterfield & Ibrahim Shikaki
>> To read here
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Empirical determinants of renewable energy deployment: A systematic literature review by Clémence Bourcet
>> To read here
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Comment penser l’alternative au capitalisme de plateforme dans une logique de réencastrement polanyien ?
par Laura Aufrère, Philippe Eynaud, Lionel Maurel et Corinne Vercher-Chaptal
L’article envisage les alternatives au capitalisme de plateforme dans une logique de réencastrement polanyien. Issus d’études de cas dans les secteurs du co-voiturage, de la livraison et de l’hébergement, les résultats mettent au jour des modèles d’activité hybrides au sein desquels le principe marchand est mis au service de la logique réciprocitaire. Rejetant la rationalité algorithmique formelle des plateformes capitalistes, les alternatives cherchent à aligner les comportements individuels et collectifs sur les valeurs de solidarité et les finalités d’intérêt général. Elles expérimentent des modalités originales de passage à l’échelle, basées sur la fédération de communautés, respectueuses de leur ancrage dans l’économie substantive. Les résultats permettent de penser des complémentarités entre différentes formes d’encastrement susceptibles de se jouer à plusieurs échelles, et ouvrent des perspectives pour repenser les politiques publiques vis-à-vis des expérimentations de l’économie solidaire et des communs.
>> A lire ici
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How Financialization Reshapes Public Health Care Systems-The Case of Assurance Maladie
by Ana Carolina Cordilha
This article seeks to show how financialization is reshaping Public Health Care Systems (PHCS). To do so, we combine a theoretical discussion and an empirical investigation to examine the increasing participation of financial actors and instruments in these systems over the last decades. In the first part, we present the conventional approach for assessing PHCS transformation to date and argue for the need to incorporate the concept of ‘financialization’. In the second part, we suggest a method for empirically examining how financialization alters the internal structures and organization of PHCS. In the last part, we apply this method to conduct an in-depth analysis of the French public health system, Assurance Maladie (AM). Our findings provide robust evidence that financialization had a major influence in the direction taken by the post-1990s reforms in this case, with new strategies allowing the increased participation of financial capital in the system’s long-term, short-term, and investment financing. In the conclusion, we provide a critical assessment of financialized strategies, highlighting their adverse impacts on core principles of PHCS such as solidarity, stability, and democratic participation.
>> Read it here
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Growth without Full Capacity Utilization And Full Capacity Utilization Without Growth
by Federico Bassi
Despite empirical evidence of permanent damages to GDP after the 2008 global financial crisis, there is little theoretical consensus about the impact of the crisis on the unobservable rate of capacity utilization. In this paper, we investigate how the rate of capacity utilization reacts to shocks by testing the hypothesis that the normal rate of capacity utilization is exogenous and constant, against the alternative hypothesis that it is endogenous to demand and can vary with time. We find that the normal rate is more likely to be a shifting attractor or a time-varying trend instead of a fixed center of gravity. Hence, temporary shocks do not necessarily translate into permanent losses of productive capacity but they can also translate into lower degrees of utilization of the capacity in place. We show indeed that the effects of the 2008 financial crisis on EU countries were highly heterogeneous, and we find three different trajectories. A first cluster of countries recovered the pre-crisis rate of capacity utilization and accumulation, despite a permanent destruction of productive capacity. A second cluster of countries absorbed the shock through a lower rate of capacity utilization and accumulation with no permanent destruction of productive capacity; a third cluster of countries absorbed the shock through a massive destruction of productive capacity and a negative rate of growth, despite an increasing rate of utilization.
>> Read it here
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