Thomas Piketty and the Twilight of Macronism
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Thomas Piketty and the Twilight of Macronism
The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack. Earlier this week, the eminent economist Thomas Piketty published a short intervention on the ongoing youth-led protests across France, which he dubs “the twilight of Macronism.” “Young people,” Piketty writes, “are asking for one simple thing: resources to get an education and access to quality studies.” With admirable clarity, he then dismantles a series of misleading claims made…
French economist Thomas Piketty stated that the protests signaled the end of the Macron administration. Noting that public budget per student in higher education has decreased by 20 percent since 2017, Piketty argued that France is not experiencing a shortage of resources, but rather a problem of wealth distribution.
Since Emmanuel Macron arrived at the Elysée, spending per student has decreased by 20 percent. Increasing resources for education must become a central issue Read
This latest article by Thomas Piketty, the renowned French economist and leading authority on wealth inequality, should be essential reading here in the UK. His argument is simple. France has never been richer. Yet, education spending per student has fallen by 20% since […] The article France has never been richer. Yet, education spending per student has fallen by 20% since 2017 appeared in the Agonas tis Crete.
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